Iona Berkeley

Barrister specialising in all areas of intellectual property law, including trade marks, passing off, copyright, database rights, registered and unregistered design rights, patents, confidential information, and related areas, such as IP related contractual disputes (in particular international arbitrations) and media and entertainment. Cases include Shorts International v Google (Cost capping and security for costs in Court of Appeal, trade marks) and Marriot Worldwide Corporation v Delta Air Lines (Appeal to High Court from UKIPO on trade mark invalidity), the large scale Glaxo v Sandoz litigation (passing off, trade marks, colour and product get up, joint tortfeasance, pharmaceuticals), Speciality European Pharma v Doncaster Pharmaceuticals (Pharmaceutical parallel importation/trade mark infringement); DKH Retail v H Young Operations (UK Design Right and Community Design in garments, fashion industry); Coward v Phaestos (Copyright infringement/ownership issues in financial software); Whirlpool Corp. v Kenwood (Trade Marks, food mixers, consumer products); EPI Environmental Technologies v Symphony (Confidential Information, contract); Football Association Premier League v Panini (Copyright); Kirin-Amgen Inc. v TKT and Roche (Patents).

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Trinity College, Oxford (BA Biological Sciences, MA (Oxon)); City University (Dip Law); Inns of Court School of Law. Called 1999, Middle Temple.

Intellectual Property Bar Association and Chancery Bar Association.

Iona Berkeley is co-author of Kerly’s Law of Trade Marks and Trade Names 17th Ed and several previous editions and Laddie Prescott and Vitoria on the Modern Law of Copyright and Designs (5th Ed and 4th Ed).