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Stephen Bennett

Senior lawyer in the London Intellectual Property Department of the international law firm Lovells

Patents, trade marks, confidential information, domain names, licensing, counterfeiting and copyright.

England, March 1995

Law, LLB: Kings College London

Oldham Hulme Grammar School
A levels: Biology, Physics, Chemistry all at grade A

Stephen has a broad experience of intellectual property litigation in the High Court in London acting for defendants and plaintiffs.

A sample of his work includes:

VISX v Nidek [1999] FSR 405 High Court patent litigation relating to excimer laser ophthalmic surgery equipment for correction of refractive errors

Collag v Merck - litigation which involved a dispute as to patent inventorship and ownership and claims of misuse of confidential information relating to formulation and manufacturing of a pesticide product

One of the few reported patent compulsory licence cases - Re Thermatru's Patent [1997] RPC 777 acting for the patentee and resisting the application for a licence at first instance and on appeal

Acting in multi-patent litigation relating to controls for kettles for Otter Controls against Strix

Extensive experience of gathering evidence (by compulsion and consent) for UK patent trials from foreign jurisdictions including the United States

Acting for Playboy in resisting an interim injunction application by the software house Eidos for alleged trade mark infringement.

lectures to the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents ("CIPA") informals on competition aspects of intellectual property licensing

Stephen lectures on the University of Bristol intellectual property diploma course on the subject of "IP and the Internet"

seminars on domain name disputes, business method and computer software patents and patent litigation procedure.

associate member of Chartered Institute of Patent Agents

member of The Intellectual Property Lawyers Organisation (TIPLO)

"Securing Ownership of R&D" Managing Intellectual Property December/January 2002"

Understand the New UK URL Dispute Resolution Scheme" International Technology Law Review (Euromoney) May 2001

"New Nominet Domain Name Dispute Resolution Procedure" CLSR May 2001

"Taking a Second Bite at the Cherry" (article on secondary evidence of inventiveness in patent actions), Managing Intellectual Property June 1999

Article on patent and trade mark protection Company Secretary's Review August 1997