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Will Smith

Bird & Bird
Will is a Legal Director at Bird & Bird, specialising in advising companies involved in technology development both in the UK and internationally.
 
Will advises clients on contentious and non-contentious matters relating to a wide range of technologies with a particular emphasis on patent and confidential information disputes.
 
Will has also spent time working in house supporting the development of hydrogen-based decarbonisation solutions for the mining sector both at a FTSE 100 company and a pre-revenue start-up. 

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 2013

Experience

  • Bird & Bird LLP (2011 - 2021)
  • Anglo American plc (2021 - 2023)
  • First Mode, Inc (2023 - 2025)

Qualification

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law, University of Oxford (2015)

Education

  • Chemistry, University of Oxford (2008)
  • LLM (Law), Kaplan Law School (2011)

1 Contributions by Will Smith

UK trade secrets and confidential information: definition, enforcement and remedies under the 2018 Regulations and common law breach of confidence, covering employment, reverse engineering, secondary liability and confidentiality in litigation
PRACTICE NOTES
UK trade secrets and confidential information: definition, enforcement and remedies under the 2018 Regulations and common law breach of confidence, covering employment, reverse engineering, secondary liability and confidentiality in litigation
This Practice Note sets out how trade secrets and confidential information are protected in a commercial context, particularly where technical material is concerned. It outlines the Trade Secrets (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2018 (Trade Secrets Regulations), SI 2018/597, and their interaction with the common law action for breach of confidence. This Practice Note also addresses: how breach of confidence intersects with infringement of intellectual property rights and other causes of action the meanings of ‘confidential information’, ‘trade secrets’ and ‘know‑how’, and how these concepts are handled in commercial practice case law on secondary liability, common design and knowledge of breach, together with the position on subconscious use, derivative use and reverse engineering remedies available for breach of confidence, including injunctions, springboard injunctions, damages, account of profits, delivery up and destruction Introduction to the laws protecting confidential information and trade secrets in the UK Historically, the UK had no statutory regime for safeguarding trade secrets or other technical confidential information; protection stemmed from equitable common law principles. In 2016, the EU adopted Directive (EU) 2016/943...
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