Experience

• Mr. Trenton’s work has included:

  • Representing a multinational technology company in a complex action involving multiple patent infringement assertions and a FRAND rate determination.
  • Representing a multinational technology company in an intervention in the UK Supreme Court in relation to the scope of court-determined FRAND licenses.
  • Successfully defending a multinational technology company in patent infringement proceedings relating to user interface features.
  • Representing Kirin-Amgen in a biotechnology patent infringement case relating to erythropoietin. It went up to the House of Lords and is the leading UK case on the issue of patent claim construction.
  • Representing the market leader in the supply of intermediate industrial bulk containers in a patent infringement action that went to the UK Supreme Court. It is the leading UK case on whether an act is repair or making, for the purposes of patent infringement.
  • Acting in an expert capacity advising on English law in a New York arbitration relating to a patent license dispute.
  • Representing a major pharmaceutical company in a successful claim to revoke a patent relating to a well-known drug.
  • Representing a major pharmaceutical company in a patent infringement case concerning the use of glucagon-like peptides for reducing body weight.
  • Representing a client in a successful patent infringement case which went to the High Court and Court of Appeal involving snack food packaging equipment.
  • Representing a client in a patent entitlement dispute against a leading defense contractor relating to patents concerning hover cushion landing gears on airships.
  • Representing a major chemical company in a successful patent action relating to ion exchange resins for purifying acetic acid. It was followed by the first account of profits to go to trial for nearly a century.
  • Representing a client in a case against Unilever relating to ice cream bars and obtaining the first modern stay of patent proceedings in the UK pending a European Patent Office Opposition.
  • Representing a client in a patent infringement case relating to technology involving the projection of images onto polymeric film.
  • Representing a global online information and publishing business in relation to numerous trademark infringement and passing off disputes and oppositions concerning its brands.
  • Representing a client in a successful trademark revocation action relating to the Bach Flower Remedies trademark.
  • Representing a client in trademark infringement proceedings relating to the BOTOX trademark.
  • Representing a client in successful trademark infringement proceedings in Malaysia concerning the H R Johnson trademark for tiles.
  • Representing a global entertainment media company in a trademark infringement and passing off action against one of its major competitors in relation to the launch of a television channel.
  • Representing a well-known tyre manufacturer in a successful trademark infringement and domain name dispute.
  • Representing a client in a successful and leading trademark infringement and passing off case relating to cybersquatting.
  • Representing a hostelling organization in relation to a number of trademark infringement disputes.