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Provided by Georgina Messenger
Practice Areas
Intellectual Property, Information Technology and related commercial disputes; patents, trade marks, passing off, copyright, designs, confidential information. Advice, drafting and advocacy covering all these areas in the UK Courts and UKIPO.
Cases include (* indicates sole counsel):
Patents:
*Trailerlogic v Roftek (IPEC) (mechanical);
*Dual Inventive v Voestalpine (IPEC) (railway systems);
Astrazeneca v Tesaro [2023] EWHC 803 (Ch) (Licensing agreements/Swiss-type claims);
Takeda v F. Hoffmann-La Roche [2019] (Antibodies);
Illumina v Premaitha [2017] (pre-natal testing);
Trade Marks/Copyright/Design Rights:
*Praesidiad v Zaun (design rights). [2024] EWHC 1549 (Pat) (strike out);
*Vapestop v Phoenix (trade marks/passing off);
*Early Learners v Early Learners (IPEC) (trade marks/passing off);
*Gibraltar (UK) v Viovet [2024] EWHC 777 (Ch) (comparative advertising);
* Enreach v Inreach [2022] EWHC 2867 (Ch) (strike out);
*Industrial Cleaning v Intelligent Cleaning [2023] EWHC 411 (IPEC); [2023] EWCA Civ 1451 (trade marks/acquiescence/honest concurrent use).
*Hayman-Joyce v Hayman-Joyce [2023] EWHC 1028 (IPEC) (passing off).
*Claridge’s Hotel v Claridge Candles [2019] (trade marks)
Frank Industries v Nike [2018] EWHC 1893 (Ch), [2018] EWCA Civ 497, [2018] EWHC 424 (IPEC) (trade marks/interim injunctions);
Zuma's Choice v Azumi [2017] EWHC 609 (IPEC) (trade marks/threats/recusal);
Kason Kek-Gardner v PCL [2017] EWCA Civ 2132; [2016] EWHC 2198 (Ch) (design right/copyright/trade marks);
Signature v Fortis [2016] EWHC 3583 (Ch) (Copyright)
*Numerous appearances before UKIPO and the Appointed Person.
Called 2014, Middle Temple, Clare College Cambridge (2011) MA Hons, Natural Sciences. BPTC (BPP: Outstanding). GDL (BPP).
Intellectual Property Bar Association.
Co-Editor of Terrell on the law of Patents.
Provided by Chambers
Georgina Messenger routinely handles passing-off and trade mark infringement and validity claims, for both SMEs and larger corporations. She has additional experience in pharmaceutical patent disputes.
Provided by Chambers
She is very prompt and clearly very knowledgeable on IPEC procedure and law.
Georgina Messenger is excellent with clients and gives clear, no-nonsense advice. She is also prepared to put the time in researching points rather than give a wishy-washy answer.
Georgina was up against a KC and performed very well. She did a good, thorough cross-examination and made a clear presentation of our case.
She is very prompt and clearly very knowledgeable on IPEC procedure and law.
Georgina Messenger is excellent with clients and gives clear, no-nonsense advice. She is also prepared to put the time in researching points rather than give a wishy-washy answer.
Georgina was up against a KC and performed very well. She did a good, thorough cross-examination and made a clear presentation of our case.