Thomas Lunt
UK Bar Guide 2025
Band 4 : Intellectual Property
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Practice Areas
Thomas’ practice encompasses all areas in intellectual property including patents and SPCs, trade marks, passing off, copyright, and confidential information.
His recent patent cases from the life sciences field include Akebia v Fibrogen (a leading case on the approach to sufficiency of functional claims) and Sandoz, Teva v BMS (the first appellate decision on plausibility following G2/21) and, for tech and telecoms, matters include AutoStore Technology v Ocado Group and R2 v Intel. He acted in the Dr Reddy’s, NHS England v Warner-Lambert damages inquiry concerning pregabalin (which was listed on The Lawyer’s “Top 20 Cases of 2023”) and is presently instructed in the Panasonic v Xiaomi and Lenovo v Ericsson FRAND proceedings. He is a contributing author to Terrell on the Law of Patents, editing the chapters on construction and plausibility.
Thomas maintains an active trade marks practice and has worked on cases across diverse sectors including beverages, luxury personal goods, and medical devices. In addition to his experience before the High Court, he represents clients unled before the UK IPO.
Career
2019-2020: 12-month pupillage at Three New Square to Miles Copeland, Jeremy Heald, Joe Delaney, Stuart Baran and Geoff Pritchard.
2017-2018: BPTC at BPP Birmingham: Outstanding; 1st in cohort.
2016-2017: GDL at BPP Birmingham: Distinction. 2012-2016: MChem Chemistry at Lincoln College, Oxford: 1st class. Part-II thesis in soft chemistry of solid- state crystalline compounds from the cerium oxychalcogenide series.
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