Lindsay Lane read Natural Sciences and Law at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was the winner of the Cambridge University Law Society Individual Mooting Competition in 1994. She then took a Masters in Comparative, International and European Law at the European University Institute in Florence. She was awarded a scholarship by Middle Temple and was called to the Bar in 1996. Her practice covers all areas of intellectual property law, including patents, trade marks, copyright and database right, registered designs, design right, passing off and confidential information, and related areas, including entertainment and media. Lindsay speaks fluent Italian.
Recent cases include:
Copyright, database right and confidence - Prince of Wales v Associated Newspapers (2006), action for copyright and breach of confidence relating to the publication of extracts from the Prince's diaries in The Mail on Sunday. The British Horseracing Board v William Hill [2005] RPC 13, the main authority on database right in the UK and Europe.
Trade marks and passing off - Phones 4u v Phone4u.co.uk (2006), Court of Appeal case on passing off and trade mark infringement relating to domain names. Eddie Irvine v Talksport [2002] 2 All ER 414, which has established definitively for the first time in the United Kingdom the right of celebrities to prevent false endorsement under the law of passing off. . Lindsay also appears regularly in the Trade Mark Registry and on trade mark appeals before the Appointed Person and in the High Court. Recent cases include: NEW COVENT GARDEN MARKET TM.
Patents Kirin Amgen v.Hoechst Marion Roussel [2005] RPC 9, appeal to the House of Lords on construction of claims, infringement, sufficiency and novelty of a patent concerning recombinant DNA technology. Menashe v William Hill [2002] RPC 47, concerning jurisdiction over a computer system, where the host computer was situated outside the UK.
Publications Lindsay has contributed to a number of books on intellectual property law. Most notably she is a co- author of the Third Edition of Laddie, Prescott and Vitoria on The Modern Law of Copyright and Designs. She has also contributed to Atkins' Court Forms on Competition and on Copyright and Bullen & Leake & Jacob's Precedents of Pleadings.