Toby is an intellectual property litigator and advisor. His legal expertise covers copyright, database rights, confidential information, contentious aspects of data/data protection, and trade marks and design rights.

He has experience across a wide range of technologies, goods and services. Some illustrative examples of his work include:

• Acting for newspaper publishers in litigation concerning online licensing, internet indexing, caching and browsing.
• Providing legal opinions for foreign litigation concerning  direct injection satellite broadcasting.
• Defending an interim injunction application concerning copyright infringement in a data analytics software program.
• Advising a financial institution on copyright infringement relating to computer source code, functionality, logic and data file formats.
• Advising life sciences businesses on mining/scraping and re-utilisation of third party data.
• Advising a luxury goods manufacturer on the exhaustion of intellectual property rights in relation to modified goods.
• Advising technology-enabled businesses in high-profile data breach investigations by the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Toby has also spent time working in-house both with a multinational retailer and as the acting head of litigation for a television network, during which he gained invaluable insights to some of the operational challenges faced by clients and the need for cost-effective, commercial advice.

Toby sits on LexisPSL’s IP Consulting Editorial Board, the IP Federation’s Data and Copyright Committee, and is a member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), the British Literary & Artistic Copyright Association, the Society for Computers & Law, and the Competition Law Association.