Lindsey Rigg

AA Thornton

Lindsey Rigg is a Paralegal with extensive experience in supporting all aspects of intellectual property litigation and transactions. She has spent many years working across a full range of intellectual property rights, including patent, trade mark, copyright and design disputes. She has experience of proceedings in the IPO, High Court, the Court of Appeal and the CJEU, together with multijurisdictional litigation and coordination.

Lindsey has acted for a variety of clients, from individuals and SMEs to leading global companies. She has worked on complex and technical patent matters, involving telecommunications technology and quantum computing as well as coordinating trade mark litigation strategies against online infringement. Lindsey has worked closely with IP solicitors, barristers, and patent and trade mark attorneys to acquire a comprehensive understanding of all perspectives of intellectual property strategy and disputes.

Practice Area

Panel

Contributing Author

Qualifications

LPC (2010)
Law LLB (Hons) (2007)

Education

The College of Law (2010)
University of Kent (2007)

1 Contributions by Lindsey Rigg

PRACTICE NOTES

Digital Single Market Copyright Directive (EU) 2019/790: UK status, Articles 15 and 17 controversies, divergence, and text and data mining exceptions

This Practice Note explores Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the EU Digital Single Market (EU DSM Copyright Directive). It provides a concise high level outline of the background to, and the individual detailed articles of, the EU DSM Copyright Directive, and highlights debate over the wording of particular provisions, such as Article 15 on rights in press publications and Article 17 on use of protected content by online content sharing service providers (OCSSPs). The Practice Note also considers the status of the EU DSM Copyright Directive in the UK and points of divergence between the UK and the EU on key provisions. The EU DSM Copyright Directive amended Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases (EU Database Directive) and Directive 2001/29/EC (EU InfoSoc Directive). For details on developments in copyright and databases in the UK, see Practice Note: Copyright and databases tracker—UK, and for developments in the EU, see Practice Note: Copyright and databases tracker—EU. Background The EU has taken active steps to evolve its copyright laws to reflect contemporary use of the internet and online content. The EU DSM Copyright Directive forms...

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