Sara Ashby
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Sara Ashby heads Wiggin’s IP team. She is a disputes and strategy lawyer with a broad IP practice across all IP rights, which includes assisting clients with trademark and design portfolio matters and in handling registry disputes and infringement and validity proceedings.
As well as litigating in the English High Court and Court of Appeal, Sara has considerable experience in the Shorter Trials Scheme and Intellectual Property Enterprise Court.
Her clients hail from diverse sectors, including film and TV, fashion and footwear, pharmaceuticals and computer games.
Sara is president of the UK branch of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), the cross-profession international leading non-government organisation for research into and formulation of policy for the law relating to the protection of intellectual property. She is co-chair of AIPPI’s International Designs Committee.
She is heavily involved in Oxford University’s postgraduate diploma in IP law and practice, lecturing on IP litigation, and tutoring and examining on design law. She has served on the Diploma Management Committee for many years. She is a research fellow at Oxford University’s IP Research Centre.
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Wiggin wins awards for copyright work
We are delighted to announce that Wiggin was named Copyright Firm of the Year at the Managing IP Awards 2022 for the fifth consecutive year as well as winning one of the UK Impact Cases of the Year for our work on TuneIn Inc v Warner Music UK.
Wiggin expands its Brussels office with top tier Intellectual Property team
Media, technology and intellectual property law firm Wiggin today announces the expansion of its Brussels office with the arrival of leading IP practitioners Carina Gommers and Carl De Meyer, together with two additional team members, Eva De Pauw and Eleni Foscolos.
Wiggin wins awards for copyright work
We are delighted to announce that Wiggin was named Copyright Firm of the Year at the Managing IP Awards 2022 for the fifth consecutive year as well as winning one of the UK Impact Cases of the Year for our work on TuneIn Inc v Warner Music UK.
Wiggin expands its Brussels office with top tier Intellectual Property team
Media, technology and intellectual property law firm Wiggin today announces the expansion of its Brussels office with the arrival of leading IP practitioners Carina Gommers and Carl De Meyer, together with two additional team members, Eva De Pauw and Eleni Foscolos.