List G Barristers

Noted for housing ‘excellent silks across patent and trade mark law’, List G Barristers covers a broad range of IP disputes, with members regularly appearing before the Federal Court in trade mark appeals, as well as breach of confidence and patent disputes. Tom Cordiner KC is acting before the Federal Court in Novartis v Pharmacor, a patent infringement claim concerning heart failure treatment, raising issues of patent invalidity. In Somers Enterprises v Basefun, Siobhan Ryan KC appeared in an appeal over the removal of a trade mark on the grounds of non-use. Luke Merrick KC represented the respondents in Fortrend v Wollermann, a dispute between a stock broking firm and its former employees concerning the diverting of business, while Marcus Fleming is acting in Aristocrat Technologies Australia v Light & Wonder Inc, a breach of a confidence and copyright infringement appeal relating to electronic gaming machines.