Noel Redding Estate Ltd v Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd [2025] EWCA Civ 66 involving the copyright and performers rights in the recordings of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, where he is being led by Simon Malynicz KC.

T-41/23 Pollen+Grace v EUIPO, EU:T:2023:705 a trade mark appeal before the General Court dealing with the significance of the description (as an Irish barrister)

Tulane Educational Trust [2013] EWCA Civ 890; [2013] Bus LR 1225, [2012] EWHC 932 (Pat); [2013] Bus LR 53 sole advocate where he challenged the legality of the implementation of the SPC Regulation into UK law

Astellas Pharma Inc v Comptroller-General of Patents [2009] EWHC 1916 (Pat); (2009) 110 BMLR 148 which dealt with the approach to combination drugs for SPCs

Symbian Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks [2008] EWCA Civ 1066; [2009] Bus LR 607 written submissions for intervener (with Ashley Roughton) on computer programmes

Farah v General Medical Council [2008] EWHC 731 (Admin), [2008] All ER (D) 21 (Apr) regulatory case

As instructing government (departmental) lawyer:

Oakley v Animal [2005] EWHC 210, [2005] EWCA Civ 1191 on the power to implement EU legislation under the European Communities Act 1977 (where the Attorney-General appeared for the Crown).

C-48/05 Adam Opel v Autec [2007] ECR I-1017 on trade mark use and toy cars

C-108/05 Bovemij Verzekeringen v. Benelux Merkenbureau [2006] ECR I-7605 on the requirements of acquired distinctiveness

C-228/03 Gillette v LA Labs [2005] ECR I-2337 on the spare parts exception in trade mark law

C-458/02 Commission v United Kingdom ECLI:EU:C:2005:192, which were infraction (infringement) proceedings against the UK

Intellectual Property Bar Association
American Bar Association, including Intellectual Property Section
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Associate Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys
International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
British Literary and Artistic Copyright Society

LLB (Hons), Durham University
LLM, University of London (Queen Mary)
PhD (Law), University of London (Queen Mary)
PG.Dip Int Arb, Queen Mary, University of London
D.Lit, Durham University

Phillip is a self-employed, independent barrister whose practice is governed by the Code of Conduct of the Bar of England and Wales. He is registered with the Bar Standards Board of England and Wales (Bar Ref: 38823).

Phillip is a self-employed, independent barrister whose practice is governed by the Code of Conduct of the Bar of England and Wales. He is registered with the Bar Standards Board of England and Wales (Bar Ref: 38823).

He has professional indemnity insurance provided by the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund (BMIF Ref: 8459/03). Please refer to the BMIF website for full details of the world-wide cover provided, and the BMIF’s contact details.

He is able to take instructions under the Bar Direct Access rules.
He is also a member of the Irish Bar (Library Number: 112911) and holds insurance provided by AON (Policy Number 01ZPI5007629). He is also admitted as an Attorney in California (No: 220553) and the District of Columbia (No: 1019571). In relation to U.S. law, he only offers advice on intellectual property and related matters and only to the extent which it is covered by the BMIF.

Phillip began his legal career as a criminal barrister prosecuting and defending in the higher and lower courts.

He then joined the government legal service where he was a legal adviser to the Intellectual Property Office between 2003 and 2007 during which time he implemented various Treaties and Directives and he also drafted a lot of intellectual property legislation, including the Registered Designs Rules 2006 and the Patents Rules 2007.

He returned to private practice in 2007 and subsequently entered academia. He is currently a (full) Professor of Law at King’s College London and his reputation has led him to be invited around the world to speak on intellectual property law, and to appear on the BBC, ITV, RTE and Times Radio discussing legal matters as well as being quoted in the New York Time and the Washington Post.

Phillip has been an Appointed Person hearing appeals from the registry under the Trade Marks Act 1994 and the Registered Designs Act 1949 since 2015, and he is also on the WIPO List of Neutrals.

Roughton, Johnson and Cook on Patents (5th Ed, Butterworths 2022)
Bently, Sherman, Gangjee and Johnson, Intellectual Property (6th Ed, Oxford 2022)
Ambush Marketing and Brand Protection (3rd Ed, Oxford 2021)
Gurry on Breach of Confidence (2nd Ed, Oxford 2012)
Editor of the Intellectual Property Quarterly