Three New Square is 'a excellent set of IP barristers'. The team is highly experienced in handling instructions in the telecoms, biotech and pharmaceutical sectors. Andrew Waugh KC is well versed in advising on high-profile pharmaceutical patent disputes, while Tom Hinchliffe KC routinely represents multinational telecoms, biotech and technology entities in IP matters. Elsewhere in chambers, Tom Mitcheson KC and Daniel Selmi appeared in Merck Serono SA v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks, a Court of Appeal case concerning the use of supplementary protection certificates for second medical use. Katherine Moggridge brings expertise in advising on all aspects of IP law, including passing off, patents, registered design rights and trade marks. Geoffrey Pritchard KC took silk in March 2025.
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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

IP Bar Association, IP Society, Chancery Bar Association, AIPPI, ChIPs.  

Education

Biochemistry, King's College London and Berkeley, University of California.

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