DRS CASE LAW NON UK DISPUTES ORIGINAL DRS
EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Durham University Business School - MSc (Management Studies) 1984
MA (Cantab) 1978
Pembroke College, Cambridge University BA (Hons) Natural Sciences (Physics & Mathematics) 1974
Registered Trade Mark Attorney 1994 MITMA 1999
Chartered Patent Attorney 1989
European Patent Attorney 1989
PRESENT POSITION
Partner, Patent & Trade Mark Attorney in charge of London Office of Page Hargrave
Principal professional work on trade mark and internet issues
Responsible for Page Hargrave website - see http://www.pagehargrave.co.uk
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE BEFORE PRESENT POSITION
BT Group Legal Services Intellectual Property Department, London 1984-1998
Electronic engineer (wireline logging) for Schlumberger (1974-80) and Orkustofnun (Icelandic National Energy Authority) 1981
EXPERIENCE IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Contentious & non-contentious IP experience in patents, trade marks, designs, copyright, contracts and licensing matters. Advising on multimedia and information superhighway IP issues (including internet, interactive TV and on-line games network matters), especially with regard to copyright and trade mark/domain name conflicts. Lobbying and negotiation with European Commission, European Parliament and UK DTI on various IP policy matters. Dealt with all BT registered designs. General IP experience includes software licensing; patenting optical communications technology; IP contract drafting & advice; complex HMG/EC collaborative R&D agreements (e.g. RACE, ESPRIT etc); major IP agreements relating to merger, joint venture proposals; trade mark filing and prosecution in over 40 countries and trade mark and passing-off litigation; trade mark oppositions; maintained BT IP Department's information sources (library, on-line and intranet).
INTA Internet Sub-Committee member 1997-2000;
CIPA tutor for European Qualifying Exams 1989-92;
EPI European Qualifying Examination Examiner (Paper D - Law) 1992-95;
Member CIPA/ITMA joint working group on the future of the professions 1994-95
EXPERIENCE WITH RESPECT TO DOMAIN NAMES
Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy Panellist for WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center from August 2000 -
Responsible for internet domain name and trade mark related matters in BT 1996-1998; Consultant to BT Internet & Multimedia Services division 1998-99.
Active participant in IAHC and subsequent gTLD-MoU, IFWP and US NTIA and WIPO Internet Domain Name debates and processes.
Represented International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and European Public Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO) at WIPO hearings on trademarks and internet domain names; led ICC Internet Domain Name Working Group.
Member of International Trade Mark Association (INTA) Internet sub-committee 1997-2000.
Active in ICANN debates and processes; participated in ICANN wg/b and wg/c on famous mark and gTLD issues. ICANN @large member.
Managed BT involvement in leading UK case on trade mark and domain name conflicts (BT & Ors v One In A Million and Ors) through first instance and Court of Appeal. Also dealt with and advised on numerous other domain name conflict matters settled out of court.
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
Contributed UK section to INTA publication on "Trademark Law & the Internet" (1999) and Update (2000).and 2nd Edition (2001)
Presentations on internet issues in-house and at conferences (see e.g. "TRADE MARKS & DOMAIN NAMES -An industry perspective" - IP on the Internet & e-Commerce Conference - September 1998 in Brussels - version available at http://www.pagehargrave.co.uk).
Appeared in TEN legal training video on the One In A Million case.
Computer and Telecommunications Law Review Article "Of Aliases, Nicknames and Trade Marks: Reforming Internet Domain Name Delegation" [CTLR] December 1996.
PERSONAL INTERESTS
School Governor 1997-
Morgan Sports Car
Surviving Parenthood
