Anthony Misquitta 'has a deep understanding of the law and gives robust, practical advice appropriate to our circumstances', enthuse clients. He focuses on soft IP and has an established client base in the culture sector.
Chambers & Partners, 2011
Anthony is Head of the Museums & Galleries Group. He is involved in a broad range of contentious and non-contentious intellectual property, IT and commercial media work. He works for many of the firm's cultural, media, education, commercial and institutional clients including a number of publishers, museums, software houses, schools, universities and technology businesses.
Anthony is particularly well-known for the work that he has undertaken for clients in the cultural sector although more recently his work has developed into more commercial areas including TV shopping, patent entitlement, cloud computing and smartphone apps.
Recent examples of Anthony's work are:
- Advising SBC Systems on contracts relating to its managed benefits system recently made available through the cloud.
- Advising a UK based (US owned) engineering company in relation to a patent entitlement dispute.
- Advising Stepper UK in relation to an unregistered design claim made against the retailer of infringing spectacles.
- Advising Thane Direct in relation to trade mark, patent and design claims made against retailers of infringing products.
- Advising Age UK in relation to its outsourcing of IT services to CharITshare (an SPV providing VAT efficient IT services to its charity members).
- Advising the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland in relation to its contract with an NHS Trust for the delivery of data to power the nationwide Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Quality Improvement Programme.
Anthony gives regular lectures for the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) on brand exploitation and for the Institute of Art & Law on all aspects of IP. He is also Company Secretary to the Association for Cultural Enterprises - a charity that promotes commercial best practice in the cultural, heritage, tourism and visitor attraction sector.
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Anthony is the Chair of the firm’s Museums & Galleries group. He is involved in a broad range of contentious and non-contentious intellectual property, IT and commercial media work.
He works for many of the firm's cultural and institutional clients including a number of publishers, museums and galleries. Anthony gives regular lectures for the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) on brand exploitation and for the Institute of Art & Law on all aspects of IP. He is also Company Secretary to the Association for Cultural Enterprises - a charity that promotes commercial best practice in the cultural, heritage and visitor attraction sector.
Recent examples of Anthony's work are:
- Advising the Natural History Museum on contracts relating to its projects in the Middle East and Far East.
- Advising the National Gallery Company on product licensing.
- Advising the Victoria & Albert Museum on copyright infringement matters.
- Advising the National Portrait Gallery on a copyright dispute with Wikipedia.
- Advising Culturelabel on its online museum retail terms.
Go to Museums & galleries Anthony advises schools and universities on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious intellectual property, IT and commercial media work. In recent years Anthony had advised a number of schools on overseas franchises and expansion into overseas territories, on brand protection and on brand enforcement issues.
He has been engaged in similar work for a number of universities to whom he has also advised on technology spin-out activity.
Recent examples of Anthony's work are:
- Advising Marlborough College on its Malaysian school project.
- Advising Haileybury on its Kazakhstan school project.
- Advising Epsom College on its Malaysian school project.
- Advising Kunskapsskolan on the terms on which it licensed its brand and IP for use within UK academies.
- Advising Imperial College on technology spin-out activity.
- Advising London Business School on brand protection issues.
Go to Schools Anthony advises clients across a variety of media (print, TV and new media) and entertainment platforms on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious intellectual property, IT and commercial media work.
Recent examples of Anthony's work are:
- Advising The Economist on contentious copyright and database right infringement matters.
- Advising Incisive Media on website issues and on contentious copyright and registered trade mark infringement matters.
- Advising Emap on contentious copyright, database right and registered trade mark infringement infringement matters.
- Advising the Times Education Supplement on chat-room liability issues and pre-publication copyright and trade mark clearances.
- Advising numerous TV shopping channels such as Thane Direct, Guthy-Renker and Best Direct in relation to trade mark, patent and design claims made against retailers of infringing products.
- Advising Bandapp on the contracts and trade mark registrations that it needed to put in place to launch its innovative “record deal in your pocket” iPhone app.
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