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8 New Square Offices
8 New Square
LINCOLN'S INN
LONDON
WC2A 3QP
England
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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 one of the IP barristers who is equally adept at contractual litigation, so a go-to person for disputes involving a mixture of contractual interpretation and IP. Very user friendly, personable and easy work with.’
London Bar > Media and entertainment
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Jonathan Hill –8 New Square ‘Jonathan is bright, knows his law and procedure, and is very thorough. ’
London Bar > IT and telecoms: projects and services
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Jonathan Hill –8 New Square ‘Excellent technically, client friendly, charming and responsive. Jonathan is an excellent advocate.’
8 New Square is an ‘elite set’ for information technology law and regularly acts in cases concerning liability of internet intermediaries and FRAND rate determinations, as well as continuing to expand its offering in IT litigation related to the development of AI technology and the set’s core strength of intellectual property. Jaani Riordan is acting for the defendant in IBM v LzLabs GmbH & Ors, with the claimant alleging that LzLabs illegally reverse-engineered its mainframe software to develop its Software Defined Mainframe. In InterDigital Technology Corp v Lenovo Group Ltd, Mark Chacksfield KC is representing the claimant as the Court of Appeal will address fundamental questions on the recoverability of interest in telecommunications FRAND actions. Jonathan Hill appeared before the High Court in PQ Systems Inc v Aughton, successfully establishing for the claimant that its software had been illegally copied and concealed.