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Kathryn Pickard

020 7405 1222 clerks@11southsquare.com

Position

Barrister specialising in intellectual property law. Recent cases include:

AutoStore Technology AS v Ocado Group Plc [2021] EWHC 1614 (Pat) – (patents for automated warehousing technology)

Philip Morris Products SA & anr v RAI Strategic Holdings [2021] EWHC 537 (Pat) & anr – (patents directed to ‘heat-not-burn’ tobacco technology)

Illumina Cambridge Ltd v Latvia MGI Tech SIA & Ors [2021] EWHC 57 (Pat) – (patent action concerning DNA sequencing technology)

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation & Anor v Meril GmbH & Anor [2020] EWHC 2562 (Pat) – (patent action concerning transcatheter heart valves)

Akebia Therapeutics Inc v Fibrogen, Inc & Astellas [2020] EWHC 866 (Pat) – (multi-patent action concerning the use of an enzyme inhibitor)

Warner-Lambert Company LLC v Generics (UK) Ltd t/a Mylan and anr [2018] UKSC 56

Parainen Pearl Shipping Limited v Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Skipsrederai SA [2018] EWHC 2628 (Pat) – (Patents Court)

Generics (UK) Ltd v Yeda Research and Development Co [2017] EWHC 2629 (Pat) – (Patents Court)

Teva (UK) Ltd v Gilead Sciences Inc [2017] EWHC 13 (Pat) – (HIV-medication)

Property Renaissance Ltd (t/a Titanic Spa) v Stanley Dock Hotel Ltd (t/a Titanic Hotel) [2016] EWHC 3103 (Ch) – (trade mark and passing off)

Unwired Planet International Ltd v Huawei Technologies Co Ltd & Ors [2016] EWHC 576 (Pat) (patent action concerning mobile telephones)

Accord Healthcare Ltd v Astellas Pharma GmbH [2015] EWHC 3676 (Ch) (Articles 6, 8 and 10 of Directive 2001/83/EC on medicinal products for human use)

Generics (UK) Limited t/a Mylan v Warner-Lambert Company LLC [2015] EWHC 2548 (Pat) (patent revocation, validity and infringement concerning pharmaceuticals)

Starbucks (HK) Limited & Anr v British Sky Broadcasting Group plc & Ors [2015] UKSC 31 (appeal to Supreme Court, trade mark, passing off)

Fresh Trading Ltd v Deepend Fresh Recovery Ltd [2015] EWHC 52 (Ch) (copyright of ‘Innocent’ logo);

Teva v AstraZeneca AB [2014] EWHC 2873 (Pat) (patent revocation for asthma treatment);

TDY v Pramet [2014] EWHC 565 (patent infringement metal cutting tool);

Apple v Samsung [2013] ECDR 1 (registered design right concerning tablet computers);

Specsavers International Healthcare Ltd v Asda Stores Ltd [2011] FSR 1 (trade mark infringement concerning advertising campaign);

Fosroc International Ltd v WR Grace & Co [2010] EWHC 1702 (Pat) (patent revocation and validity action concerning cement and concrete composition);

Honda v Neesam [2009] EWHC 1213 (Pat) (damages inquiry regarding parallel importation);

Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd v Premium Aircraft [2009] EWCA Civ 1062 (patent appeal concerning Virgin’s upper-class suite seating);

Mölnlycke Health Care v Wake Forest University [2009] EWHC 2204 (Pat) (Patent action concerning wound care device);

Aerotel v Wavecrest Group Enterprises [2009] EWCA Civ 408 (telecommunications patent appeal);

Trafalgar Financial Futures v Hamdi [2009] Supreme Court of Gibraltar (breach of confidence action concerning trade secrets in trading techniques);

KJM Superbikes Ltd v Hinton [2008] EWCA Civ 1280 (application to bring contempt proceedings for false statement of truth); Patel v Allos Therapeutics Inc [2008] ETMR 75 (cybersquatting dispute)

Yeda v Rhone-Poulenc Rorer [2008] RPC 1 (appeal to House of Lords on law of patent entitlement).

Career

Called 2001.

Memberships

IP Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association; South Eastern Circuit.

Education

Clare College, Cambridge (MA LAW and Natural Sciences); Brasenose College, Oxford (BCL (distinction)).