Profile
Position
Barrister specialising in all aspects of intellectual property law: patents, SPCs, trade marks, passing off, copyright, designs and confidential information. Recent cases include: Amgen & Samsung Bioepis v Alexion (antibody patent, expedited trial); Accord v Hoffmann-La Roche (pharmaceutical patent); Pfizer v UniQure (gene therapy patent); Modernatx v Pfizer & BioNTech (COVID-19 vaccine patents); Phillips v OPPO (telecoms patents); Pfizer v GSK (vaccine patents); AstraZeneca v Tesaro (patent licensing dispute); Teva v Novartis (Arrow declaratory relief); Sandoz & Teva v BMS (pharmaceutical patents); Teva v Novartis (pharmaceutical patent, expedited trial); Neurim & Flynn v Mylan (divisional patent, preliminary issues); Optis v Apple (telecoms patent); MSD v Wyeth (vaccine patent); Neurim & Flynn v Mylan (pharmaceutical patent, interim relief, exclusive licensee, costs); Liqwd v L’Oréal (haircare patent, damages inquiry); Accord/Aspire v Allergan (pharmaceutical patent); Emson v Hozelock (mechanical patents); Actavis v ICOS Corp (pharmaceutical patent; Supreme Court); Juul v Quick Juul (trade marks, passing off, ex parte interim relief including interim injunctions and doorstep search orders; summary judgment); Manchester United v SEGA (trade marks, passing off); Juul v JCR Biotech (trade marks, registered designs, passing off; default judgment); Generics v Yeda (pharmaceutical patent); Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics v AbbVie Biotechnology (pharmaceutical patents and applications, entitlement to priority, Arrow declaratory relief). Katherine has also recently appeared in a LCIA pharmaceutical arbitration.
Publications
Katherine is also a contributing editor of Terrell on the law of Patents (18th, 19th and 20th Editions).
Career
Called 2012; Lincoln’s Inn.
Memberships
Education
Biochemistry, King's College London and Berkeley, University of California.
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