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Oscar Webb

Senior Associate

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English, French, Spanish

Oscar is a Senior Associate in the Intellectual Property department.

Oscar has considerable experience in advising clients in the technology, media, leisure, retail and fashion sectors. His practice covers both contentious and non-contentious aspects of all types of soft IP. He provides strategic advice to clients in relation to the protection and enforcement their IP rights, with a focus on brand protection, anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting and trade mark, copyright and design right disputes. He is an experienced litigator and also advises on domain name disputes, company name complaints, ASA complaints and fraudulent websites.

Oscar also regularly advises on transactional IP work and has handled the IP aspects of several high-profile corporate deals. He has extensive experience of coexistence arrangements, non-disclosure agreements, IP licensing (including global licensing deals and brand extensions) and regulatory aspects of IP.

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"Senior associate Oscar Webb is very able and on top of the detail."

Legal 500, 2019

Education

  • 2014 – Postgraduate Diploma, Intellectual Property Law, University of Oxford
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15/12/2023
Insights on cost-effective IP enforcement in the UK taken from joint CMS/IPLA...
On 30 November 2023, CMS and IPLA hosted a panel discussion on how rights owners can enforce their IP rights in an effective manner in the UK and how the UK IP profession can continue to make the UK an...
09/11/2023
CMS advises LiveScore Group on two strategic deals
International law firm CMS has advised global sports media business, LiveScore Group, on two strategic deals with South Africa-based software development specialist, Wonderlabz, and Swedish sports betting...
26/09/2022
CMS advises Anzo Group on the sale of Roxor Gaming
International law firm CMS has advised Anzo Group on the sale of leading independent UK-based iGaming content supplier, Roxor Gaming, to Aristocrat Leisure, the Australian Stock Exchange listed leading...
07/09/2022
CMS advises LiveScore on £50m strategic investment from Ringier
International law firm CMS has advised LiveScore on a strategic investment from Swiss-based media and technology company Ringier, valuing the business at £500 mil­lion. Foun­ded in 2019 by former Gamesys...
16/06/2022
Only Fools and Characters – can copyright exist in literary characters?
On 8 June 2022, the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (“IPEC”) handed down its judgment in Shazam Productions Ltd v Only Fools The Dining Experience Ltd & Ors [2022] EWHC 1379 (IPEC), ultimately...
13/12/2021
Court of Appeal decision highlights issues around employee-created IP
Summary The Court of Appeal decision in Penhallurick v MD5 Ltd ([2021] EWCA Civ 1770) highlights some key issues for any business which relies on software which is developed by employees. Ultimately...
12/08/2021
The future of sports data: image rights in sport – The state of play
The second article in our The Future of Sports Data series examines what we mean by “image rights” in the UK and how a combination of intellectual property and other legal rights may be used by athletes...
14/04/2021
Court of Appeal maintains ‘British Gymnastics’ trade marks infringed by...
In its recent decision in UK Gymnastics Ltd & Ors v British Amateur Gymnastics Association[1], the Court of Appeal upheld the ruling in the IPEC[2] that the Defendants’ use of ‘UK Gymnastics’ infringed...
02/02/2021
Future Facing Disputes - Technology licensing after Unwired Planet – Jur­is­dic­tion­al...
There has long been a tension in technology licensing between the global com­mer­cial agree­ments that companies regularly enter into in order to licence their technologies on a worldwide basis and the...
17/09/2020
Preparing your clients to protect and exploit their intellectual property...
‘Preparing your clients to protect and exploit their intellectual property rights in the post-Brexit world' CMS webinar is taking place on Thursday 17 September 2020. There are now just a few months...
21/11/2019
Court of Appeal summarises law of joint authorship - Kogan v Martin
The Court of Appeal recently delivered its judgement in the case of Kogan v Martin [2019] EWCA Civ 1645 concerning joint authorship of copyright works. In his judgment, Lord Justice Floyd took the opportunity...
03/03/2017
Permission to (develop) land: don't be the architect of your copyright...
This article was produced by Nabarro LLP, which joined CMS on 1 May 2017. Summary and implications The English High Court has held in Signature Realty Ltd v Fortis Developments Ltd [2016] EWHC 3583 that...