restrictions on "screen-scraping" of data from websites of suppliers to facilitate aggregation of different services or price comparisons
	legality of GSM gateways
	pricing of access to sports fixture databases
	licensing and exclusive dealing agreements relating to industrial chemicals
	the pricing of interfaces in computer telephony integration
	price-fixing and resale price maintenance in relation to vehicle parts
	discrimination against parallel imports of computer hardware
	settlements of intellectual property litigation
	international patent and trade mark licensing
	the establishment of a worldwide joint venture for the development and marketing of pharmaceuticals
	the compatibility of UK copyright law with the prohibition of barriers on trade in the Treaty of Rome
	territorial and other restrictions in franchise agreements
	alleged partitioning of the world market in liturgical books.

I have experience of dealing with these issues in

	court proceedings in the UK and the US
	investigations by the EU Commission, the UK Office of Fair Trading and OFTEL (acting in some cases for complainants and in others for parties whose conduct is being investigated)
	arbitrations and
	contractual negotiations.

Further details of some of these cases are set out on my Cases page, but many of these matters are confidential.

I was introduced into this area when working as a law clerk for Sughrue & partners, intellectual property and antitrust attorneys in Washington DC. I subsequently studied EC competition and free trade law for my Masters Degree at Brussels University, where I also took an option in US antitrust law. Further details of my education are set out in my curriculum vitae.

I have written extensively on EC and UK competition and free trade law, including the textbook Intellectual Property and EU Competition Law (OUP 2010); the section on the application of EC competition law to intellectual property in Vaughan & Robertson's Law of the European Union; and various articles, including a seminal article on the need for an effective competition law in the UK. That article and a draft Bill which I prepared led to the UK Competition Act 1998. Click here for further details.

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