Simon Ayrton

Information about the specialist

simon.ayrton@powellgilbert.com

Practice Areas

Intellectual property litigation. Work covers advising on full range of intellectual property including patents, trademarks, copyright, designs and confidential information. Cases include Research Corporation's Patent (licence of right under the SPC for Carboplatin), IBM v Phoenix (trademark infringement and passing off), Rambus v Micron and Hyundai (patent infringement), Gillette v Corsair (passing off), Monsanto and Searle v Merck (patent infringement), Allergan v Pharmacia (patent infringement), Duracell v Round Imports (trade mark infringement), Sony Computer Entertainment v Ball (circumvention of copy protection measures), Aerotel v Telco (business method patents), Dr Reddy's v Eli Lilly (patent revocation), Philips and Others v Alba (patent exhaustion and competition), Apple v Nokia (patent infringement), HTC v Apple (patent revocation), Unwired Planet v Huawei (patent infringement and FRAND), Vestel v HEVC Advance (competition law and FRAND), Seoul Semiconductor v General Electric (patent revocation) and AutoStore v Ocado (patent infringement).