Christopher Stothers (Freshfields, London and Dublin) is an experienced patent litigator, managing strategic, cross-border disputes around Europe and beyond, including oppositions and appeals before the European Patent Office as a legal practitioner and disputes before the Unified Patent Court as a UPC Representative. He has particular expertise in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices and telecommunications, and is well known for his work on the interface between IP, competition and regulatory law. Christopher also helps clients with other intellectual property, antitrust and pharmaceutical regulatory litigation, arbitration and mediation.

He is a creative problem-solver who thinks laterally across the breadth of his practice and has been involved in patent disputes around the world. He is also a Visiting Professor in Intellectual Property and Competition Law at University College London, where he has supervised doctoral students on patent and FRAND issues with Professor Sir Robin Jacob and Matt Fisher. He published the leading textbook “Parallel Trade in Europe: Intellectual Property. Competition and Regulatory Law”. Finally, he is committed to pro bono matters, having taken cases and interventions involving (trans) gender, disability rights and human trafficking through the Tribunal system and up to the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, European Court of Justice and European Court of Human Rights.