Metaverse Series #4: IP in the Metaverse - Expanding the reach of intangible rights
As new products and services are introduced into the rapidly expanding metaverse, we look at how IP protection and enforcement strategies...
About Me
Ian is widely acknowledged as a leading IP specialist with particular expertise in disputes. He also has extensive experience of commercial issues including licensing, structuring IP aspects of transactions and insolvency. He is a Deputy High Court Judge and Interim Chair of the Charity Commission.
Ian was a member of the firm’s Partnership Board from 2012 to 2015 and in 2000 founded the firm’s TMT group.
Work highlights
Ian has led on many leading IP disputes. These include:
- Actavis v Merck, a leading case on the patentability of second medical uses and which set a precedent for the Court of Appeal departing from its earlier decisions
- Aerotel v Telco concerning the patentability of computer programs and business methods
- Cranway v Playtech concerning a patent for online gaming
- advising easyJet on the brand licence with its founder
- Tate & Lyle v Roquette a significant case on patentability of discoveries and the of attributes of a chemical product
- Sierra Wireless in an arbitration relating to royalties under patent licences
- Merck & Co., Inc. in a long-running trade mark dispute with Merck KGaA, a German company, over the use of “Merck”
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