Mr CLIVE THORNE | PARTNER
WEDLAKE BELL LLP

Mr CLIVE THORNE, PARTNER, WEDLAKE BELL LLP

Clive is a partner in our IP and Commercial Team and advises a wide range of clients in relation to the litigation and arbitration of all types of IP and IT disputes including patents, designs, copyright, trade marks and passing off, trade secrets and breaches of confidence.  He has particular experience in the arbitration of disputes both in advising clients and sitting as an arbitrator.  He has considerable experience of practice in Asia and in particular India, Hong Kong and China.

Recent Experience

  • Conduct of a successful appeal to the Court of Appeal in a patent dispute relating to wound dressings;
  • The defence of a major professional negligence claim against a firm of patent attorneys involving agricultural machinery relating to bovine fertility;
  • The successful conduct of a "test" copyright infringement action against a local authority on behalf of a copyright collecting society;
  • Appointment as the expert panellist in one of the first gTLD community objection applications before the ICC;
  • Numerous appointments as a WIPO panellist in domain name disputes;
  • Advising a consumer electronics corporation in relation to the liability of ISPs for the online sale of counterfeit memory sticks;
  • Supervising the conduct of a multi-jurisdictional design copyright dispute relating to the sale of specialist confectionary products; and
  • Appointment as an expert in UK copyright and trade mark law in US proceedings.
Career History

Clive joined Wedlake Bell as a partner in May 2014 having previously been a partner in RPC.
He qualified in 1977 with Clifford-Turner and subsequently spent 4 years practising in Hong Kong.  He was subsequently a partner and head of the IP practices at Denton Hall and at Arnold & Porter.
He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators.
Clive is a founding member of The Intellectual Property Lawyers Organisation and formerly Vice Chair of the Disputes sub-committee of the IBA Technology Committee.
He is also admitted to practices in Hong Kong and Victoria, Australia.

Publications

Clive has written and lectured widely on Intellectual Property Law.  He is joint author of the User's Guide to Copyright Law and User's Guide to Design Law published by Bloomberg Professional

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