Mark Lubbock

Practice Areas

Mark is an experienced commercial IP and data protection lawyer who has advised clients in many industry sectors on a wide variety of commercial arrangements including technology transfer agreements, IP licences, trademark licences and franchise agreements, R&D and collaboration agreements, and outsourcing, development and system procurement agreements, and in corporate and corporate finance transactions.

Before he joined EIP, Mark was a partner with Brown Rudnick LLP for the past four years, and before that Mark was at Ashurst LLP for over 20 years heading up different teams in IP and tech during his time there.

Career

2022 — present

Partner, EIP

2018 — 2022

Partner, Brown Rudnick LLP

1996 — 2018

Senior Partner, Ashurst LLP

1992 — 1995

Associate Partner, Ashurst Morris Crisp

1989 — 1992

Senior Associate, Ashurst Morris Crisp

1982 — 1988

Associate, McKenna & Co.

1981 — 1982

Guest Associate, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Cleveland, Ohio

Professional Memberships

Member of the Society for Computers and the Law (SCL)

Member of International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)

Member of Intellectual Property Lawyer's Association (IPLA)

Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Agents (CITMA)

Member of the International Trademark Association (INTA)

Member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)

Work Highlights

A global entertainments and theme park provider regarding brand and operational rights licensing for the development of a new theme park in Dubai and in relation to various acquisitions and its procurement of an online ticketing system

A global chip designer on an UNICITRAL arbitration regarding patent infringement allegations and a technology licensing agreement relating to the design and development of semi-conductor chips for 4G technology

A global life sciences company on an ICC arbitration relating to a dispute in connection with a material sciences technology licence

A major hydrocarbons producer in respect of over 100 process systems and hydrocarbon technology and raw material commercial supply and service agreements as part of a proposed acquisition

Arakis Ltd and Vectura Group plc on a landmark US$375 million technology licensing agreement with Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis for their jointly developed inhaled combination therapy for asthma and COPD

A major UK based process systems provider in relation to its merger with the control software business of a global French/US entity– which involved a very complex array of transitional and longer lasting services and technology supply agreement between the parties

Imperial College London of Science, Technology and Medicine in relation to its technology pipeline agreement and as a major shareholder of Imperial Innovations Group (now Touchstone, part of IP Group PLC) and on a £140 million rights issue and issue of warrants by Imperial Innovations Group

Education