Thomas Lunt

Practice Areas

Thomas’ practice encompasses all areas in intellectual property. He has been instructed in matters involving patents and SPCs, trade marks, passing off, copyright, and confidential information.

Selected cases include: Akebia v Fibrogen, Astellas (pharmaceutical patents concerning the treatment of anaemia, and a leading case on sufficiency), Sandoz, Teva v Bristol-Myers Squibb (pharmaceutical patents action concerning the blockbuster anticoagulant apixaban, and the first appellate decision concerning plausibility following G 2/21), Dr Reddy’s, Actavis, NHS England & ors v Warner-Lambert, Pfizer (damages inquiry emanating from long-running pregabalin litigation, identified by The Lawyer as one of the ‘Top 20 Cases of 2023’), and AutoStore Technology v Ocado Group PLC & ors (automated robotic storage and retrieval technology in patent infringement and entitlement actions.).

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.