Peter has experience of all major areas of intellectual property litigation including patents, FRAND, licensing, copyright, database rights, trade marks, passing off and confidential information.
 
Before becoming a lawyer Peter worked for 15 years in the information technology industry as a software developer/architect.
 
Peter has a focus on IT/electronics disputes but has been involved in litigation across various industry sectors ranging from medical devices and pharmaceuticals to synthetic grass. Peter has substantial experience in corss-border disputes including disputes over choice of law, jurisdiction, anti-suit relief and foreign law. Peter has worked in matters before the courts of England and Australia and appears regularly as an advocate.
 
Peter joined Powell Gilbert in 2018.

Key cases

• Ocado v AutoStore (robotics patents, choice of law and foreign law regarding confidentiality of novelty-destroying disclosures)

• Shenzen Carku v NOCO (car jump starter patents, unjustified threats)

• Royalty Pharma v Boehringer Ingelheim (DPP-IV inhibitor pharmaceutical patent licensing, German patent and contract law)

• Vestel v HEVC Advance & Philips (video codec patent pool / FRAND licensing, jurisdiction)

• IPCom v Lenovo (telecoms patents / FRAND, anti-suit injunctions)

• Promptu v Sky and Comcast (speech recognition system patents)

• Blue Power Group v Eni (contract, confidential information and database rights in excel model)

• Becton v B Braun, Federal Court Australia (FCA) (IV catheter medical device patents)

• FieldTurf v Tigerturf, FCA (synthetic turf patents)

• Abbott v Alphapharm, FCA (fenofibrate pharmaceutical patents)

• Optiver v Tibra, FCA (high frequency trading software copyright and confidential information)