Hamish Porter is a partner in the firm's Intellectual Property
and Technology Dispute Resolution Group. He recently joined the
firm from Addleshaw (formerly Theodore) Goddard, where he had been
a partner for over 20 years specialising in IP and IT litigation,
particularly for clients in the media, entertainment and sports
industries.
He has extensive experience of trade
mark, copyright
and related rights disputes, often involving contractual and
anti-trust issues. His recent reported cases include:
- British Horseracing Board Ltd v William Hill Organisation
Ltd (2005), the first case to come to trial under the 1998
Database Regulations, and
- L'Oreal and others v Bellure NV and others (2007),
which is now a leading case under the Trade Marks Directive on
smell-alike and look-alike products which take advantage of leading
brands without causing confusion.
Hamish is rated as a leading individual in his field by Legal
500 and Chambers UK where clients have described him as
"extremely experienced".
He is a member of the British Literary and Artistic Copyright
Association, INTA and the City of London Law Society, IP
sub-committee.
He has written many articles on IP related issues for the
leading IP journals, and was co-editor of the INTA publication,
Use of Another's Trade Mark.
Hamish is also a CEDR accredited mediator.