Dawn Osborne
Partner
Oxbridge educated, Dawn Osborne has over 25 year’s experience as an IP lawyer, having qualified in the City and has been a partner for over fifteen years in top tier IP boutique firms. She is primarily involved in litigation, advice and mediation. She has been consistently ranked in the Legal 500 for her IP work. She has recently been recommended as an IP STAR by Managing Intellectual Property Magazine based on client or peer reviews. She was given an award by INTA the international trade mark association for an outstanding contribution to the organisation.
What we Say about Dawn
Dawn’s extensive expertise covers trademarks, copyright, designs, internet law and confidentiality/privacy. She is a board member of the Federation Against Software Theft and head of FLAG their legal action group, a qualified CI Arb Mediator and an INTA neutral. She has a particular reputation as an Internet lawyer being an expert in domain name resolution for WIPO, NAF, Nominet and for the .eu and UDRP procedures of the CAC and extensive experience in entertainment (publishing, music, film, theatre and sport), media, fashion, and luxury goods including high end jewellery, watches and motor vehicles. She has a national and international reputation and made partner in 2000 when she was seven years qualified. She is a Solicitor Advocate and in her spare time has studied history of art, world arts and culture and anthropology and edited the magazine of a major British museum. Personable and down to earth her interest in music has spun off into a regular radio show where she has interviewed rock legends such as Suzi Quatro and Steve Hackett of Genesis. She has lectured at international conferences with audiences as large as 5000.
Highlights
Acting as an expert in UK copyright law in US proceedings involving Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
Leading Partner for successful case in the Court of Appeal for BMW against Technosport.
Leading Partner for successful High Court case Oran v Oranmore
Author of the UK Chapter of the Oxford University Press publication and text book ‘Domain Name Law and Practice: an international handbook.’