With particular expertise in IP, Hogarth Chambers is equipped to handle a range of intellectual property, trade mark and copyright matters. Gwilym Harbottle was instructed by The Football Association Premier League Ltd in proceedings against major UK ISPs, securing a blocking order to prevent access to websites streaming unlicensed Premier League matches, while Jamie Muir Wood represents the claimant in Weltman v Hensley, a dispute over royalties over the works of band Uriah Heep.
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Barristers specialising in Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment, Privacy
Career
Since joining Hogarth Chambers, Jamie has been involved in the full range of intellectual property disputes, with his practice covering patents, trade marks, copyright, designs and confidential information. He is a contributor to the CIPA Guide to the Patents Act, Copinger & Skone James on Copyright and a co-author of A User’s Guide to Trade Marks and Passing Off. He teaches trade mark and patent attorneys at Nottingham Trent University and construction lawyers at King’s College London.
Jamie completed a combined Bachelor of Arts and Master of Natural Sciences degree at the University of Cambridge, focussing on materials science. Afterwards, Jamie remained at Cambridge to undertake a doctorate in materials science, looking at shape memory materials, and further postdoctoral research, creating metal foams for air batteries.
Jamie then left academia to spend five years working in the construction industry, initially assisting expert witnesses in a wide range of construction disputes and subsequently advising banks and other funders on risk in construction projects. During this time, he completed a part time Master of Science degree in construction law and dispute resolution and a part time law degree.
His technical and commercial background provides Jamie with an ideal foundation for working on complex intellectual property disputes and enables him to take a pragmatic view of disputes.
Memberships
ADR Group accredited civil and commercial mediator; Member of the British Literary and Artistic Copyright Association; Member of the Chancery Bar Association; Member of the Intellectual Property Bar Association; Member of the Society of Construction Law; Member of IPSoc (the society for junior IP practitioners); Honorary Treasurer of the King’s College Construction Law Association
Education
BA, Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge, 2001; MSci, Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge, 2002; MA, University of Cambridge, 2005; PhD, Materials Science, University of Cambridge, 2006; MSc, Construction Law and Dispute Resolution, King’s College London, 2009; LLB, BPP Law School, 2011; BPTC, BPP Law School, 2012
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