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LONDON
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Michael Hicks
Position
Barrister specialising in intellectual property, information technology and other disputes concerning technology. Fields of expertise include patents, designs, copyright, trademarks and passing off, domain names, confidential information, computer hardware, electronics and software disputes, and franchising and distribution matters with an intellectual property element. Patent cases include: Emson v Hozelock (CA – expandable hosepipes); Geofabrics v Fiberweb (railways); Pozzoli v BDMO (CA – obviousness); Swarovski v Leica (telescopic sights); Red Spider v Omega (oil well valves). Copyright cases include: Designers Guild v Russell Williams (fabric designs); SAS Institute v World Programming Ltd (computer software); Nova v Mazooma (CA –computer games); Blizzard v Bossland (cheats for computer games); Sprint Electric v Buyers Dream (ownership of source code) ; VLM v Ravensworth (licensing). Trade mark, passing off and advertising cases include: Jaguar Land Rover v Bombardier (Defender vehicle name); Phones4U Ltd v Phone4U (CA); Fine and Country v Spicerhaart (CA – estate agents); DataCard v Eagle (consumables for printers); Marks & Spencer v One in a Million (CA – domain names); Adobe v Netcom (community trademarks and estoppel); Inter Lotto v Camelot/National Lottery Commission (name of game); Niche v MacDermid (malicious falsehood oil industry products); Kingspan v Rockwool (comparative advertising). Designs cases include: Red Spider v Omega (oil well valves); Magmatic v PMS (Trunki suitcase); Shnuggle v Munchkin (baby baths).
Career
Called 1976; Inner Temple.
Memberships
Intellectual Property Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association; Society for Computers and Law; AIPPI (UK).
Education
Brighton College; Trinity College, Cambridge (degree in Natural Sciences).
Leisure
Racing dinghies and other small boats.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Intellectual property
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Michael Hicks – Hogarth Chambers ‘Michael has such an eye for how a judge will see a case. His ability to take in detail and produce clear and thought-out pleadings is brilliant, and his cross-examination style is measured and effective.’
London Bar > Media and entertainment
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Michael Hicks –Hogarth Chambers ‘Michael is a great team player and it is always a pleasure to work with him. His advice and drafting are extremely clear.’
Considered to be ‘clearly excellent’ in media and entertainment law, the barristers of Hogarth Chambers frequently instructed in film and music cases for an array of clients, from management through to artists, often in cases with an intellectual property angle. Andrew Norris KC successfully acted for the BBC in Molavi v Gilbert case, defending the broadcaster and one of the writers of long-running drama Silent Witness against claims that two episodes of the show broadcast in 2019 were plagiarised. Gwilym Harbottle represented the claimant in Entertainment One UK Ltd v SConnect Media LLC, a dispute between the creators of Peppa Pig and a Vietnamese children’s cartoon named Wolfoo, which is alleged to have breached copyrights relating to the British show. In Evans v John Lewis PLC and DDB UK Limited case, Michael Hicks successfully argued that the ‘Excitable Edgar’ character in the retailer’s 2019 Christmas advert had not infringed copyright from a children’s book written by the claimant.