Michael Tappin KC

Practice Areas

Recent and significant cases include: Regeneron v Kymab (SC/CA/HC), Eli Lilly v HGS (SC/CA), Generics v Lundbeck (HL/CA), Conor v Angiotech (HL), Sandoz & Teva v Bristol-Myers Squibb (CA/HC), Moderna v Pfizer & BioNTech (HC), BioNTech & Pfizer v CureVac (HC), Sandoz v Biogen (HC), Gilead v Nucana (HC), Nokia v Oppo/OnePlus (HC), Alcon v AMO (HC), Mitsubishi v OnePlus (HC), Conversant v Huawei (HC), Eli Lilly v Genentech (HC), Chugai v UCB (HC), Fujifilm v AbbVie (HC), Illumina v Ariosa (HC), GSK v Wyeth (HC), Eli Lilly v HGS (SPC – CJEU/HC), Hospira v Genentech (CA/HC), Hospira v Novartis (CA/HC), HTC v Gemalto (CA/HC), Resolution v Lundbeck (CA/HC), Regeneron v Genentech (CA/HC), Fresenius v Carefusion (CA), Mylan v Yeda (CA/HC), KCI v Smith & Nephew (CA/HC), Napp v ratiopharm (CA/HC), Nokia v HTC (HC), HTC v Apple (HC), Ivax v Glaxo (HC of Ireland).

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Career

Called 1991. Appointed KC 2009. Standing Counsel to the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks 2003-08. Called to the Bar of Ireland 2018. Appointed as Deputy High Court Judge 2021.

Professional Memberships

Intellectual Property Bar Association, Chancery Bar Association.

Publications

Co-author of Laddie, Prescott and Vitoria's Modern Law of Copyright (5th edn, 2018).