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Dr Heather Lawrence
Position
Barrister specialising in intellectual property matters including: patents, trade mark, registered designs, copyright, unregistered design right, passing off, breach of confidence, computer contract disputes and other litigation with a technical content, media and entertainment law, data protection; cases include: Gravitas v EDS [2014] EWHC 1306 (IPEC); Enviromental Recycling Technologies v Upcycle Holdings Ltd [2013] EWPCC 4 (IPEC patents); Wasabi Frog Ltd v Miss Boo Ltd, Gulfraz Mohammed [2009] EWHC 2767 (Ch) (High Court trade marks); Select Healthcare (UK) Ltd v Cromptons Healthcare Ltd [2011] EWHC 1830 (Pat), Proto Magic Innovations Ltd [2011] EWHC 1830 (Pat) (Patents Court, medical patents); Siemens Schweiz AG v Thorn Security Limited [2007] EWHC 2242 (Patents Court), [2008] EWCA Civ 1161 (Court of Appeal) (patent infringement/validity – plastic protective coatings for printed circuit boards; competing translations of European Patents, the effect of non-registration of Swiss-law mergers under s68 of the Patents Act); Green Lane Ltd v PMS International [2007] EWHC 1712 (Patents Court) (meaning of Article 7(1) of the Community Design Right Regulations 2006); GE Healthcare v PerkinElmer [2006] EWHC 214 (Patents Court); (patent infringement/validity scintillation proximity tests – assays and measurement); Quiksilver v Charles Robertson [2005] 1 CMLR 36; [2005] FSR 8 (High Court) (trade mark infringement – meaning of ‘consent’ under s12(1) of the Trade Marks Act 1994 – importation of genuine trade-marked goods into the EEA without consent).
Career
Called 1990, Middle Temple; accredited mediation (ADR Chambers); ADR Specialist Mediation Panel.
Memberships
Intellectual Property Bar Association (formerly Hon Sec); Chancery Bar Association; The Royal Society of Chemistry (Member); Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (Associate Member); Civil Mediation Panel.
Education
Claremont Fan Court School; University of Oxford (1985 BA 1st Class Hons); University of Oxford (1991 Dee Scholarship MA, DPhil Chemistry, ); thesis: ‘Non-Linear Optical Properties of Novel Organometallic Compounds’; City University (1990 Diploma of Law); Inns of Court School of Law (1991 Bar Vocational course).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Intellectual property
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Heather Lawrence – 11 South Square ‘Heather’s strengths include the thoroughness of her preparation, the ability to make the right tactical decisions, her quiet and understated advocacy that is nevertheless highly effective, an understanding of scientific and technological matters, particularly chemistry, her drafting skills applied to the preparation of pleadings, and her willingness and ability to work with her instructing solicitors as a team.’