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Jaani Riordan
Position
Junior with technical background in computer science and expertise in all fields of intellectual property, media and IT disputes. Particular experience in disputes involving the internet, telecoms, cybersecurity and AI. Author of leading textbook on intermediary liability. Regularly instructed in website blocking orders, interim injunctions, jurisdiction disputes, and IP/licensing arbitrations. Recent cases include: Warner Music v TuneIn [2021] EWCA Civ 441 (copyright); Facebook v Voxer [2021] EWHC 1377 (video streaming patent); Insulet v Roche [2021] EWHC 1933 (medical device patent); Apple v Swatch [2021] EWHC 719 (trade marks); TOT v Vodafone [2021] EWHC 46 (trade secrets; jurisdiction); Wheat v Google [2020] EWHC 27 (jurisdiction); SEL v BDL [2020] EWHC 2004 (IT contract damages inquiry).
Career
Called 2012 (England and Wales); Lincoln’s Inn. Admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and High Court of Australia in 2009. Practised as an IP/technology litigation solicitor in a top-tier corporate law firm in Australia. Also lectured in contract, trusts and copyright law at University of Oxford. Publications of note include practitioners’ text ‘The Liability of Internet Intermediaries’ (Oxford University Press, 2016); contributing author to ‘Laddie, Prescott and Vitoria: The Modern Law of Copyright’ (5th ed, 2018).
Memberships
Intellectual Property Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association; Anglo-Australasian Lawyers’ Society; Worshipful Company of Stationers.
Education
Magdalen College, Oxford (2012, DPhil Law, Clarendon Scholar, Oxford Australia Scholar). University of Melbourne (2007 Bachelor of Laws, top 1st); University of Melbourne (2007, Bachelor of Computer Science, 1st).
Leisure
Music (violin), opera, photography.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Intellectual property
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Jaani Riordan – 8 New Square ‘Jaani is one of the best all round juniors at the IP Bar. Brilliant for both patent and non-patent work, he is super hardworking and goes into forensic detail.’
London Bar > Media and entertainment
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3London Bar > IT and telecoms (infrastructure and contracts)
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Jaani Riordan –8 New Square ‘Very thorough and extremely thoughtful; extremely good advocacy. He goes further than the intructions and really looks even into the technical aspects of the dispute.’
Telecoms and IP disputes form the core focus of the barristers at 8 New Square which offers market leading expertise for cases involving FRAND rate determinations and liability of internet intermediaries. Recent trials to determine FRAND rates include Optis Cellular Technology LLC v Apple Retail in which Mark Chacksfield KC was instructed to act for the successful claimant. Jaani Riordan was instructed to act for the defendant in Nokia v OPPO, a multi-patent multi-trial action relating to mobile telecoms patents for 4G/5G functionality and FRAND rates. Riordan also appeared for Swiss/UK developers of a software defined mainframe platform in a claim defending allegations of breach of a customer agreement – the case raised novel issues concerning the interface between IT contract terms. Jonathan Hill acted for Hanger Holdings in a High Court Claim seeking to recover ownership of a domain name, in which the court determined for the first time in English law that a domain name is an item of property.