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Giles Fernando
Giles’s three key practice areas are intellectual property, information technology and media law. His practice covers patents, design right, breach of confidence, trade marks and passing off, copyright and technical contractual disputes, particularly relating to computer software. He has additional expertise in the related areas of privacy and image rights, and has acted in a number of disputes relating to new media, and for a range of well-known designers and brand owners.

Giles is regularly recommended in Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500. Commentators have said about Giles that he “gives 100% every time” and he has been recommended for his blend of “tenacity, encyclopaedic knowledge of the law,” and knack of “knowing what clients want”(Chambers & Partners), and for being “very good on his feet” and “someone that you would definitely want in your corner” (Legal 500).

In addition to appearing regularly in the Chancery Division, Giles appears in the Technology and Construction Court and in the Intellectual Property Office in patent and trade mark matters and has advised in relation to proceedings before the European Court of Justice, the European Patent Office and the Office for Harmonisation of the Internal Market. Giles has also acted in a number of arbitrations and mediations, both as Counsel and as assistant to the mediator.

Giles studied jurisprudence at Oxford before joining 11 South Square. Between 2005 and 2010, he was the editor of the Entertainment and Media Law Reports.

Recent important cases in which Giles has acted include Nuttall v Fri-Jado (Court of Appeal, November 2009); Lilly ICOS LLC v 8PM Chemist Limited (High Court, July 2009) Magical Marking v Holly (No.2) [2009] ECDR 8, (No.1) [2008] FSR 36; Wrenn v Landamore (Court of Appeal, April 2008), Eli Lilly v 8PM [2008] FSR 12, Autopaint v De Beer (Court of Appeal, January 2008) and Douglas v Hello [2008] 1 AC 1.

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