Christopher Pollard Email & Phone Number

I am an employed barrister and senior associate at Field Seymour Parkes. I specialise in intellectual property and commercial law matters (contentious and non-contentious).I work with clients across a variety of sectors including aerospace, biopharma, software, medtech, fintech, and telecoms. Clients involve multi-nationals, SMEs, universities, their spin-out companies and other start-ups.I advise and negotiate on transactions, including licensing arrangements and exploitation, procurement and assignment, collaborative research and funding.Previous contentious matters include: patent disputes, involving a European patent dispute regarding American children’s toys designer, UK patent infringement within the aviation industry, and indemnity enforcement regarding infringement of third party patent rights; trade mark disputes, involving enforcement or defence of trade mark rights or passing off; and copyright disputes such as unauthorised use, amendment and authorship of a client’s research outputs, unlicensed sale of unpublished academic papers, and unlicensed use of client owned photographs.I previously worked in:a boutique IP specialist firm, Anderson Law LLP, for nearly a decade. I negotiated and drafted various transactional agreements on behalf of clients. These included IP licence agreements, manufacture and supply agreements (particularly in the medtech sector), research agreements (many involving sums over £1 million), and funding agreements for research; andFreshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's Dispute Resolution department as a paralegal where I handled various contentious and non-contentious work in the medical and intellectual property sectors. I investigated patent disputes, assisted in WIPO complaints and worked on international arbitrations. I managed a team of 13 other paralegals as the head paralegal and have been involved in extensive document reviews. My undergraduate degree was in Environmental Science at Nottingham University. I wrote papers on: the effects of bovine spongiform encephalopathy prions and the hazard they pose to the environment; the effect of the modern day climate on polar bear populations; environmental risk assessments of wetlands (using environmental modelling software to predict floods); the vulnerability of permafrost and the implications for the global cycle (following research personally conducted in the Arctic Circle); and a dissertation on the comparison of palaeoatmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations of the mid-Jurassic period to those of 2009 through the stomatal responses of Ginkgo leaves.