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Henry Edwards

Barrister, 8 New Square
Henry Edwards is a barrister practising in all areas of intellectual property law, including IT and media and entertainment cases. He undertook a GDL at City University, for which he was awarded distinction, and he won a prize on the BPTC for his performance in advocacy exams.

Patent work currently includes inter-RAT handover in mobile phones, heat not burn and e-cigarette technology, high-tech exercise devices and digital overlays and augmented reality in sports broadcasting. He is currently instructed in a jurisdiction dispute about Standard Essential Patent licensing and a dispute about estoppel in the context of the standard setting process.   
 
Copyright and media work include Pasternak v Prescott, a publishing dispute about books on the life of Boris Pasternak and a case on the liability of internet search engines for copyright infringement, breach of data protection legislation and defamation.
 
Confidential information work includes a case on rights in low latency data feeds from live sports matches.
 
Henry is a contributor to the new CIPA Patents Training Manual for trainee patent attorneys which will be released in early 2021.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 2018

Membership

  • Bar European Group

Qualifications

  • BA (2015)
  • MA (2016)
  • GDL (2017)
  • BPTC (2018)

Education

  • University of Oxford (2011-2015)
  • SOAS (2015-2016)
  • City University (GDL/BPTC) (2016-2018)

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