Ashley Roughton

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Ashley Roughton is an intellectual property barrister who specialises in all aspects of Intellectual Property Law and associated areas of Competition Law. He is a graduate chemist and has postgraduate specialisms in biochemistry.

Ashley has appeared in the European Court of Justice, the Court of First Instance, the Court of Appeal (both criminal and civil), the High Court (Chancery and Queen's Bench Divisions), the Divisional Court (both civil and criminal), the County Court (both general and patents) the Crown Court, the magistrates' court, the trade marks registry and the patent office.

Chambers & Partners 2012

In Intellectual Property: "Ashley Roughton has a broad practice that takes in both technically demanding patent work and complex trade mark litigation. He is known for his discreet handling of sensitive issues, and in recent times he has been engaged in a series of disputes relating to design rights of various types."

Practice Areas

Panels

Case Analysis Panel
Contributing Author
Other Publications
Q&A Panel

Qualified Year

1992

Membership

International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (Council member), European Circuits, Intellectual Property Bar Association, Bar Eu

Education

B.Sc. (Eng) (Hons) (Lond)
Ph.D. (Cantab)
Dip.Law. (Westminster)
M.Sc (Econ) (City)
B.Sc (Mol Sci) (Open)
M.Sc (Biochem)(Lond)

3 Contributions by Ashley Roughton

PRACTICE NOTES

Photographs and Image Rights as Personal Data under the UK Data Protection Act 1998: Principles, Sensitive Data, Media Exemptions, Case Law and Remedies (Archived pre-GDPR)

ARCHIVED This archived Practice Note outlines the data protection regime in force before 25 May 2018 and reflects the position under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA 1998). It is provided for background only and is not maintained. What is meant by image? Two forms of image are discussed in this Practice Note, both relevant to data protection: The likeness of a person’s physical features and the factual circumstances of their proximity (for example, a photograph or picture)—the ontic definition. How a person is conceived in the public mind—the ontological definition. For a comprehensive introduction to the GDPR, collating key practical guidance, see: UK data protection law collection. Data protection The aim of data protection law is to ensure that anyone processing personal data for purposes other than purely domestic ones is subject to regulation. The rationale for such regulation is outside the scope of this Practice Note. Under the DPA 1998, personal data are information relating to a living individual where that information is, or is to be, processed by automatic equipment. This will usually mean a computer, and ‘processing’ is a...

Information Law

Q&As

Effect of FOIA 2000 s40 on DPA 1998 subject access rights

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FIA 2000) and the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA 1998) are distinct regimes, save for the overlap raised here. They otherwise operate separately from one another as a rule. FIA 2000 contains various exemptions. Those exemptions mean the kind, character or even the presence of the information need not be revealed under FIA 2000. For this scenario, the pertinent carve-out is in FIA 2000, s 40, in particular FIA 2000, ss 40(1) and 40(5)(a). Where the material amounts to personal data and the data subject seeks disclosure via FIA 2000, the exemption applies in absolute terms...

Local Government

Q&As

Specific UK legal requirements for email journaling

Q&A For this Q&A, we take 'email journaling' to mean a method whereby messages entering or leaving a server are duplicated and sent to a single designated mailbox, creating a record of every message in and out, arranged in a user-selected order (typically by date/time). We have limited this response to circumstances that fit those assumptions, and to cases where the journal mailbox cannot be changed or interfered with by any server user holding normal privileges...