William Wortley

William Wortley is a Senior Associate in the Intellectual Property Group, focusing on contentious matters. His primary practice area is Intellectual Property Law, and his practice encompasses a number of sectors including media, entertainment and sport, retail and consumer, and technology and communications.

He has experience acting for clients across a broad range of IP rights, with a particular emphasis on soft IP — copyright, designs, trade marks and trade secrets, as well as areas of defamation and reputation management. He has worked on litigation in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Intellectual Property and Enterprise Court, including litigating a major test case in the field of copyright, hyperlinking and the communication to the public right.

He has a particular interest in the MES sector, having previously worked for a number of years for one of the "big three" record labels. This experience has given him a keen understanding of the business needs of organisations navigating the challenges of the digital landscape, which he brings to his work with clients from both a rights holder and user perspective. As part of an international firm, he is also involved in the coordination and management of international enforcement projects in the gaming sector.

He is Co-Editor in Chief of MediaWrites, the firm's MES news hub, and a contributor to the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) Journal. He has also contributed to a number of books and journal publications.