Sam Carter

Practice Areas

Sam specialises in intellectual property law. He has experience in the full spectrum of IP rights, as well as in media and entertainment, IT, and confidentiality/privacy matters. He has a particular interest in the music industry, and a growing expertise in that area.

Sam regularly appears as both sole and junior counsel in the High Court, IPEC, UK IPO, and before the Appointed Person. He can also accept public access instructions.

Career

Recent cases include: acting for the Weiss Technik group in a substantial High Court ex-employee copyright/database/confidentiality claim (including in software); acting for the musical artist Four Tet (Kieran Hebden) in his claim against Domino Records regarding streaming royalties; acting for the defendant Battle, Hayward & Bower in an account of profits derived from acts of trade mark infringement; acting for the defendant Cellmas Ltd in a patent claim relating to construction blocks made from recycled paper waste; acting for the defendant in a trade mark and confidential information claim by Nasdaq Inc relating to redistribution of real-time financial data.

For more details see https://www.hogarthchambers.com/barristers/sam-carter/

Publications

Sam is a contributor to Copinger & Skone James on Copyright, and the CIPA Guide to the Patents Act.