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Sarah Hopton

Senior Associate

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Sarah Hopton

Senior Associate

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

Sarah Hopton is a Senior Associate in our Technology and Media team. She advises clients across a variety of industries and sectors, including technology, media, and publishing. 

Sarah supports clients in protecting, developing and exploiting their intellectual property and technology, and has a broad range of experience in drafting and negotiating commercial agreements with an intellectual property, technology or media focus. She advises on strategic and technical intellectual property issues, helping clients to understand the scope of their rights and any risks associated with their proposed approach or arrangement.

Before joining CMS in 2022, Sarah spent over five years at an international law firm and two years at a boutique intellectual property law firm advising on intellectual property, technology and media matters, having trained with a Magic Circle law firm.

Sarah is a member of our CMS equIP team, the firm’s tech start-up programme, and a member of our #LeadHers committee, the firm’s initiative to provide support to female founders on CMS equIP and encourage more female led businesses to join. 

She also volunteers as a Maths tutor for The Access Project, which helps students from disadvantaged backgrounds to improve their grades and access to top universities.

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Relevant experience

  • A publisher on the intellectual property risks associated with the covers of a series of children’s books.
  • A serviced apartment provider on the scope of the communication to the public right.
  • A property developer in relation to copyright in planning drawings and intellectual property considerations when taking over a development.
  • A blue-chip client in relation to the subsistence and enforcement of copyright and database rights in the UK’s address database.
  • A healthcare provider on its music licence agreement for use of a song in a mental health campaign.
  • A delivery company on its services agreement and sponsorship agreement for the support and sponsorship of an international multi-sport event.
  • A spatial interaction company in relation to the development and exploitation of its interface technologies, including collaboration agreements for the use of haptic technology within cars, the integration of hand tracking technology into VR/XR headsets, and the development of a multi-sensory coffee table and simulated reality laptop.
  • A major video games publisher on a complex collaboration agreement for the development of a video game.
  • A consumer electronics company in relation to a complex trade mark licence agreement in connection with the manufacture, sale and distribution of consumer audio products.
  • A novel technology company on its outbound and inbound technology licensing agreements in connection with the development of visual processing solutions using AI.
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Education

  • 2016 – Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice, Distinction, University of Oxford
  • 2014 – Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales
  • 2011 – LPC, Distinction, College of Law
  • 2010 – GDL, Distinction, College of Law
  • 2009 – MMath (Hons) Mathematics, First, University of Nottingham
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18/04/2024
In View: Life Sciences & Healthcare - What's new in AI Regulation and Data...
 We are delighted to invite you to the CMS In View: Life Sciences & Healthcare - What’s New in AI Regulation and Data Protection? event taking place on Thursday 18 April at our London Cannon Place offices. The seminar will focus on key AI and data protection topics relevant to life sciences and healthcare where you will hear from industry and regulatory experts from the ICO, Health Research Authority, UCL, the Wellcome Trust and CMS UK specialists. If you would like to attend this event, please register via the button below.
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