Jake works on contentious and advisory matters relating to soft-IP: in particular trade marks, copyright, design rights, and passing off. Jake has experience working on soft IP cases in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Intellectual Property Enterprise Court.

Much of Jake’s experience is in brand enforcement and soft-IP disputes.

At the pre-litigation stage, Jake advises clients on enforcement strategies, advises on the merits of potential infringements and prepares pre-action correspondence.

Jake’s litigation experience includes working for claimants and defendants as the lead Associate on cases in the High Court and Intellectual Property Enterprise Court. Jake also has experience supporting a team in a case in the Court of Appeal.

In terms of advisory work, Jake advises on a variety of soft-IP matters, including: the IP implications of web scraping and data collection of third party online data, look-a-like infringement advice and advertising advice.

Some of Jake’s work highlights include:

• Codeplan v Compliance Health – Acting for the defendant in a High Court copyright claim relating to template documents.
• Chaos Boxing v Eriksson Bros – Acting for the defendant in an Intellectual Property Enterprise Court case relating to trade mark infringement and passing off claims concerning e-sport equipment.
• Delvaux v Longchamp – Acting for the claimant in an Intellectual Property Enterprise Court case relating to a passing off claim concerning high-end fashion items.
• Toluna v Stagwell – Acting for the claimants in a High Court claim relating to a trade mark and passing off claim concerning market research services.
• Glaxo v Sandoz – Supporting the team in a passing off High Court trial concerning the colour and shape of asthma inhalers.
• Supporting the team as co-counsel in Swatch v Samsung (Court of Appeal).
• Advising various clients on the implications of collecting publicly available data online and the use of web crawling bots.

Jake has assisted in advising clients on advertising matters and contributed to UK Chapter of the first edition of International Advertising Law.