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About Andrew Hobson

Andrew is a Partner and head of the competition team.

He has extensive experience of competition issues and both contentious and non-contentious IP and technology matters. Core work areas include patents, design rights, trade marks, passing-off, copyright, and technology. Much of the practice has an international flavour.

Clients include household names in many industry sectors including consumer goods, media, pharmaceuticals, technology, publishing and insurance.

Memberships

Intellectual Property Solicitors Association
Selected directory listings

“Clients express ‘utmost confidence’ in patent litigator Andrew Hobson” – The Legal 500, 2008 edition
“very well regarded” – The Legal 500, 2007 edition
Examples of relevant work

Oakley Inc v Animal Limited [2006] CH 337- registered designs/UK implementation of EU designs directive
EU investigation into aviation insurance market post 9/11
Hodgkinson & Corby Limited v Wards Mobility Services Limited (No2) [1998] FSR 530
Acting for Fabris Lane Limited on licence acquisitions from Red or Dead, FCUK, Animal, Ben Sherman and others

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The "half-lives" of celebrities: a theory of phone-hacking

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Andrew Hobson

In today's Independent Dominic Lawson offers an interesting view on how phone-hacking was allowed to take hold at the News of the World. He attributes the practice to the "dehumanising process" whereby journalists cease to regard celebrities as "real" people, regarding them instead as "cut-outs" w... read more

The Stig reveals himself

Posted on January 06, 2011 by Andrew Hobson

Ben Collins is the second man to play the part of the anonymous racing driver “The Stig” in the BBC's popular Top Gear programme. He is also the second Stig unable to resist revealing his identity, on this occasion in a book entitled "The Man in the White Suit". Despite the BBC’s best efforts to ... read more