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Iain is listed in all the major directories for his intellectual property expertise with quotes saying he “provides reassurance when trouble brews, having performed with distinction in a number of leading cases. He devises attack plans for any eventuality and has a gift for picking the right one for the dispute at hand; while devoting the necessary resources to secure the right result, he takes a highly calculated and strategic approach.” He led the team that won The Lawyer's IP Team of the Year for his work on the Interflora case.Reported cases include: TQ Delta, LLC v Zyxel Communications UK Ltd (Court of Appeal) – successfully resisting an application that our client ZyXEL should be forced to take a global FRAND licence for DSL technology covered by standard essential patents.HPAS Ltd t/a SafeStyle -v- Niamac Developments Ltd t/a SafeGlaze – trade mark infringement; breach of confidence; breach of restrictive covenant injunction case involving a successful application for a search and seizure order.Flynn Pharma Ltd v Drugsrus & or (High Court and Court of Appeal) a novel parallel import case involving a free standing "Euro" defence based on an argument that the enforcement of trade mark rights amounted to a quantitative restriction on trade.Interflora -v- Marks & Spencer (High Court; Court of Justice of the European Union; and Court of Appeal) a case relating to the use of Interflora as an AdWord in the Google advertising programme.Football DataCo -v- Livescore – a database rights case relating the to re-use of football match data; Hasbro -v- Nahrmittel - a trade mark dispute in relation to the words "play dough"; Specsavers -v- Asda Stores - a case referred to the CJEU on the question of genuine use of a trade mark and the reputation of colours used in connection with registered trade marks; L'Oreal -v- Bellure - the first case to address the question "of taking unfair advantage" of a trade mark in a case relating to smell-a-like perfumes; Adidas-Solomon -v-International Tennis Federation - acting to restrain an ITF rule change the effect of which was to prevent use of the then current form of the Adidas 3 stripe logo; Novasco Enterprises -v- Allsport (Getty Images) - copyright dispute relating to the use of English Premiership footballer images; British Horseracing Board -v- William Hill (CJEU) - the first Database Rights case to be heard before the Court of Justice of the European Union;

Listed skills include Intellectual Property, Trademarks, Copyright Law, Dispute Resolution, and 9 others.