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29 November 2011
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Nicholas Fox Simmons & Simmons

Simmons & Simmons has announced that Nicholas Fox has joined the London IP group as 'Of Counsel' to assist primarily in developing further the international TMT patent litigation practice.

Nicholas joins from IP Asset LLP and was previously head of the electronics group at Ipulse. Prior to that he spent 13 years as a patent attorney and IP litigator at Beresford & Co. He is a European and chartered British patent attorney, solicitor and intellectual property litigator.

He initially qualified as a barrister and is also admitted to the bar in New York State and has extensive experience as a patent attorney prosecuting patent applications across a wide variety of technologies ranging from image processing and acoustic engineering through to telecoms and  bioinformatics.

 

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

Senior appointments in insurance services and commercial services announced

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Aviation disputes practice strengthened by London partner hire

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Residential property lawyer promoted to partnership

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he abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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