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Jonathan Hill
Position
Barrister specialising in all areas of intellectual property law including patents; copyright; registered designs and design rights; trade marks and passing off; confidential information and trade secrets. Also specialises in IT law and media law, and in commercial disputes which raise IP and/or IT issues. Please see website entry at www.8newsquare.co.uk for recent cases.
Career
Called 2000, Lincoln’s Inn. CPE Scholarship, Maitland Scholarship, Denning Scholarship. Judicial Assistant in the Court of Appeal.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association. IP Bar Association.
Education
Oxford University (Physics and Philosophy); City University, London (Diploma in Law); Inns of Court School of Law.
Leisure
Travel, sports, music, playing the clarinet.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Intellectual property
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Jonathan Hill – 8 New Square ‘Jonathan is excellent technically. He gives great strategic advice, clients love him, and he is one of the best IP barristers.’
London Bar > Media and entertainment
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Jonathan Hill –8 New Square ‘Very good team player with an in depth knowledge of copyright and IP issues’
The barristers at 8 New Square regularly act in high-profile media and entertainment cases, where barristers combine their specialist knowledge in television, film and broadcasting to work on varied cases. Martin Howe KC represented the claimant in Molavi v BBC and Gilbert, a copyright case concerning the scripts of a two-part episode of Silent Witness. Jonathan Hill represented the claimants in Shazam Productions v Only Fools The Dining Experience, in which it was found that an immersive dinner theatre performance featuring characters, but not dialogue, from Only Fools and Horses was a breach of the claimant’s copyright, the first case establishing that a character can be a freestanding copyrighted work.
London Bar > IT and telecoms (infrastructure and contracts)
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Jonathan Hill –8 New Square ‘Technically excellent, personable and gives great strategic advice: clients love him.’
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.