Meet... Kate Reid
contact: t: 0113 2379904 or 0844 800 8871 / kate@virtuosolegal.com
Kate Reid qualified as a solicitor in 1995. She worked at Hammonds and Lupton Fawcett in Leeds prior to joining Virutoso Legal as a consultant
Kate holds a law degree and a post-graduate diploma in Intellectual Property Law.
The reported cases that Kate has worked on include Antec International v AVS (patent infringement), Antec International v SWC (passing off), Scholes Windows v Magnet (design right), Tyco European Metal Framing v Clewer & others (design right), 1-800 Flowers (opposition to trade mark application), Bentone v EOGB (trade mark invalidity proceedings).
Kate undertakes a wide range of contentious and non-contentious work including:
- trade mark and design registration
- advising on the existence, extent and protection of intellectual property
- advising on infringement of intellectual property rights
- intellectual property agreements such as licences (including software), assignments, research and development agreements and confidentiality agreements
- domain name disputes
- intellectual property litigation in the High Court and Court of Appeal
- due diligence for purchasers and buyers of intellectual property
- commercial agreements such as manufacturing, distribution, supply, merchandising, terms and conditions of trading and commercial agency agreements
- advising on the Commercial Agents Regulations
- litigation in relation to the Commercial Agents Regulations