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Author Bashereyre  Licence   Jane Lambert Eleven years ago to this day, I accepted an invitation to join 4-5 Gray's Inn Square as a tenant.  One of the reasons why I did so was because of the set's strength in arbitration,  We have a strong panel that includes members with experience in intellectual property such as  James Bridgeman SC  and  Elizabeth Nicholls  as well as me. On Thursday 8 Feb 2024 I took part in a panel discussion on "Damages Issues in IP and Life Science Disputes at the Butchers' Hal l in the City of London. My fellow panellists were  Amanda Ebbutt of TaylorWessing,  Andrew Tepperman of Charles River Associates and  Epaminontas Triantafilou of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. Our moderator was  Shreya Gupta of Oxera Consulting. Our panel discussion was one of three sessions at GAR LIVE on Damages , a half-day symposium presented by the Global Arbitration  Review .  The other sessions we...

Jane Lambert One of the most important cases of 2017 was the Supreme Court's decision in Eli Lilly v Actavis UK Ltd and Others   [2017] Bus LR 1731, [2017] UKSC 48.  That case is important for two reasons. First, it re-struck the balance that the law has to strike between the needs of inventors for reasonable protection for their inventions, competitors in the industry for certainty and clarity as to what they can and cannot do and the general the general public for reasonable competition much more favourably to inventors.  Secondly, the Court considered for the first time topics such as the "doctrine of equivalents" and "file wrapper estoppel" that are familiar to US judges and lawyers but not to their colleagues in this country. I wrote about that case in  The Supreme Court's Judgment in Eli Lilly v Actavis UK Ltd and Others: how to understand it and why it is important   13 July 2017 NIPC Law. My case note received a lot of hits and favoura...

Downing College, Cambridge Photo Cactusback Jane Lambert Earlier this week I mentioned Juris Conferences LLC's  Eleventh Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference – Technology, IP and Investor-State Arbitration at the Washington Plaza Hotel in Washington DC on 25 April 2017. I suggested that it was particularly timely in view of the final award in Eli Lilly & Co. v Canada 16 March 2017 which I discussed in the Falling to BITs: the Eli Lilly and Philip Morris Cases   8 April 2017 NIPC Law. I canvassed support for a similar conference on that topic in England and received one positive reply through Linkedin. The next day I received an invitation from the organizers of the Cambridge IP Law Summer School  to speak on the subject at this year's summer school at Downing College, Cambridge between 14 and 18 Aug 2017. This should be a splendid occasion.  The agenda looks fascinating. Some of the country's leading practitioners in IP la...