Lindsay Lane KC

Practice Areas

Lindsay specialises in all areas of IP and Media & Entertainment law. Recent patent and SPC cases include: Optis v Apple; Promptu v Sky; Ablynx v VHsquared; Conversant v Apple; Teva v Merck Sharp & Dohme and Teva v Gilead. Lindsay also appeared in the Supreme Court in Schutz v Werit.

Recent trade mark/passing off cases include: Lifestyle Equities v Santa Barbara Polo Club; Land Rover’s Trade Mark Application (for the 3D Defender mark); R v Secretary of State for Health and Karen Millen v Karen Millen Fashions.

Notable design right, copyright and breach of confidence cases include: Rothy’s v Giesswein; Shnuggle v Munchkin; Force India v 1 Malaysia Racing; Wade v BSkyB and Football Association Premier League v Luxton. Lindsay also appears regularly in the Copyright Tribunal and has particular expertise in database rights having appeared most recently in 77M v Ordnance Survey and The Kennel Club v Micro-ID, and the seminal cases of Football Dataco v Sportradar; Football Dataco v Yahoo! and BHB v William Hill.

Career

Educated: Newnham College, Cambridge (BA (Hons) Natural Sciences and Law); European University Institute, Florence (MA in Comparative, European and International Law).

Professional Memberships

IPBA; CBA

Publications

The Modern Law of Copyright and Designs (4th/5th Editions).