Stuart Baran
UK Bar Guide 2024
Band 1 : Intellectual Property
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About
Provided by Stuart Baran
Practice Areas
I focus on IP in all aspects: patents, SPCs, trade marks, design and confidential information. I am also Standing Counsel to the Comptroller-General. I have acted in all UK and EU courts and proceedings at the UKIPO and EPO. I successfully represented Eli Lilly in the UKSC (pemetrexed, patents, equivalents) and recently appeared in the UKSC in Sky v. SkyKick (trade marks) and Thaler v. Comptroller (AI), in the latter unled. Other cases include BskyB v. Microsoft (SkyDrive), Resolution v. Lundbeck (citalopram), Comic v. Fox (GLEE), FH Brundle v. Perry (threats), Cadbury v. Nestlé (colour marks), Biocompatibles v. Biosphere (EPO), Coca-Cola "MASTER" (GCEU), Merck v. ONO (biotech), Teva v. Boehringer Ingelheim (patents, SPCs), "TEAM GB" trade mark (UKIPO), Idenix v. Gilead (antivirals), Timesource v. Ultimate Products (passing off, account of profits). Glaxo .v. Wyeth (vaccines), Coloplast v. Macgregor (medical devices), Hospira v. Cubist (antibiotics), Merck v Shionogi (HIV), Accord v RCT (lacosamide), Sandoz v Searle (darunavir, SPCs), Lilly v. Genentech (antibodies, patents, SPCs, issue estoppel, UK and EPO), Glaxo v. Sandoz (passing off), IPCom v. Vodafone (telecoms patents), Sandoz & Teva v. BMS (pharmaceuticals, plausibility), GE v. SGRE (turbines, territoriality), Teva v. Bayer (sorafenib), Teva v. Grünenthal (testosterone formulation).
Career
MChem Chemistry (Jesus College, Oxford: 1st); DPhil (Oxford) Chemical Physics. GDL (distinction); BPTC (Outstanding). Called 2011;
Standing Counsel to the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks 2019--.
Professional Memberships
Inner Temple, AIPPI, IPBA
Publications
Terrell on the law of Patents (Co-editor); formerly IP editor, White Book
Personal
Violinist; keen cook.