Laura is a highly experienced Intellectual Property and Information Technology lawyer. She has worked in specialist law firms in this sector for over 25 years and has been leading commercial IP and technology teams locally for the last ten years. She brings a particular expertise in trade mark law and leads our in-house trade mark filing practice.
Laura is recognised in the Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession 2023 and in the Legal 500 for both IP and IT. She is highly regarded for her extensive expertise in a broad range of IP matters, including IP disputes, trade mark portfolios and brand protection. She is cited to be a ‘fearsome litigator and no nonsense negotiator’.
Laura’s intellectual property practice covers trade marks and passing off, copyright, designs confidential information and patents – helping businesses identify, protect and exploit their innovation. She assists our corporate teams with IP aspects of M&A work, due diligence and IP warranty matters.
Laura’s technology and e-commerce practice includes development and licensing of software, system integration and customisation contracts, SaaS and PaaS contracts.
Laura also advises on data protection issues, usually helping businesses continue to demonstrate compliance within their organisations and deal with Subject Access Requests and investigations from the ICO.
Notable work highlights
- IP – Winning an appeal for a trade mark client seeking to overturn opposition proceedings which threatened to stop its business and require them to rebrand. By identifying key areas of the original judgment which were flawed legally with regard to the interpretation of ‘similarity’ and customer perception, the client was ultimately successful with its appeal.
- IT – re-drafting, negotiating and concluding a client’s international PaaS contracts with its customers which included global finance houses, banks and famous brand owners.
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