Chambers of Michael Silverleaf QC
GRAY'S INN, LONDON, WC1R 5EY, ENGLAND
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Dr Brian Nicholson
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Position
Barrister specialising in all areas of intellectual property and related fields including: patents; design right; copyright; information technology; breach of confidence and privacy; trade marks and passing off. Particular specialisation in complex electronic and computing technology cases, previous cases include: IPcom v Nokia (mobile telephone patents); Virgin v Premium (aeroplane seating patent); Global Coal v London Commodity Brokers (traders licensing agreements); Cranway v Playtech (internet gaming patent); Navitaire v Easyjet (copyright in software, user-interfaces and database), Intel v Via (CPU Patents); Zipher v Markem (printing apparatus patents); Microsoft v Digital Now (software authentication devices); Nokia v Interdigital (mobile telephone patents); Thomason v Pace (MPEG Video patents); Samsung v Ericsson/Sony Ericsson (mobile telephone patents); Siemens v Thorn (PCB coating patent appeal); Trafalgar v Hamdi (Supreme Court of Gibraltar, confidential information).
Career
Qualified 2000; Lincoln’s Inn.
Member
Intellectual Property Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association; Chartered Engineer; International Professional Engineer; European Engineer; FRSA; FRI; MIET; MIEEE; MACM.
Education
The Blue School; University of Bath (1995 B Eng Hons First Class, 1998 PhD, ‘Artificial Intelligence for the Robust Optimisation of On-Line Control System Stability); City University (1999 Diploma in law); ICSL.
Practice Areas
Information technology; Intellectual property; Telecommunications
