Michael Silverleaf QC

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Qualified: 
Mediator
Specialist Areas: 
Intellectual Property
Media, entertainment, music and sport
Technology and IT
Education: 
Imperial College, University of London 1972-5

General Information: 
Areas of Practice
Patents, trade marks, passing off, copyright and related rights, registered and unregistered designs, computer disputes, breach of confidence, performers’ rights, entertainment and media law, restraint of trade, trade libel, trade descriptions, related areas of European and domestic competition law.

Practice in tribunals and courts at all levels up to the House of Lords and European Courts of Justice and the UK and European Patent Offices.

 Publications
Passing Off Law and Practice (Butterworths 2nd Edition 1995) co-author with John Drysdale.

Butterworths Patent Litigation(1995) edited by Gary Ropski, contributing author

Computer Law (Blackstone Press 3rd Edition 1996) edited by Chris Reed, contributing author.

Intellectual Property and Technology Cases (Butterworths law report series) consulting editor 1999-date Many articles in the legal press and papers delivered at professional conferences and seminars.