Kathryn Pickard KC

Kathryn’s practice covers all areas of Intellectual Property law. She draws on her scientific background to get to grips with challenging and diverse technology. Recent cases have concerned robotic warehousing, laser eye surgery, cryptocurrencies, DNA sequencing, eSIM cards, antibody testing, car batteries and pharmaceuticals. Kathryn has a particular interest in patent law and is also regularly instructed in matters concerning trade marks, passing off, designs, copyright, confidential information and trade secrets.

Kathryn has extensive experience of litigation in the High Court and Court of Appeal and represents clients in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, Intellectual Property Office, before the Appointed Person and at mediation. She has appeared twice in the Supreme Court: in Warner-Lambert, a case about validity and infringement of second-medical use patents, and in Starbucks, a passing off case concerning “NOW TV”. She also appeared in the House of Lords in Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, a patent entit