Alex May

Life sciences

• Advising a Japanese pharmaceutical company preparing for patent litigation in relation to its psychoactive medicine.
• Advising an American pharmaceutical company on a regulatory dispute relating to its COVID-19 vaccines under the Gene Technology Act.
• Coordinating patent litigation for a Swiss pharmaceutical company around the world, including assisting in obtaining a cross-border preliminary injunction to restrain the launch of a cancer medicine. *
• Defending a challenge to the validity of an American pharmaceutical company's patent term extension relating to an antiviral medicine. *
• Providing freedom-to-operate advice to a European biopharma company regarding its development of two biosimilars and preparing evidence to revoke patents relevant to another biosimilar. *
• Conducting an opposition to the grant of an antibody-drug conjugate patent. *
• Identifying and challenging patent applications relating to combinations of antiviral medicines in patent offices around the world on behalf of an American pharmaceutical company. *
• Acting in an American pharmaceutical company's appeal of an opposition to the grant of a patent claiming a transgenic mouse for producing antibodies. *

Telecoms/electronics

• Representing an American consumer electronics company in patent litigation brought by a non-practising entity concerning the client's smartphones, tablets and laptop computers.
• Acting for a Taiwanese consumer electronics company in patent litigation against American and Finnish competitors regarding the parties' smartphones and tablets. *
• Representing a Chinese developer of two-way radios in copyright and trade secret litigation arising out of its alleged misuse of an American competitor's source code. *
• Acting for an electronic programme guide developer in patent litigation against a British cable television provider relating to multi-source television. *

Engineering

• Acting for a German engineering company in the defence of breach of contract, copyright infringement and breach of confidence claims relating to audio equipment.
• Representing a British household appliance innovator in enforcing its patent claiming a hair styler against a competitor.
• Acting for the offshore drilling business of a Danish shipping conglomerate in patent litigation against its largest competitor. *
• Managing the IP assets of two business units of an American aerospace conglomerate. *

Other

• Advising on the conduct and settlement of various patent, industrial design, trade mark, trade secret/confidential information, copyright and unfair competition disputes. *

* Denotes experience from previous firms