Lorna specialises in the protection of intellectual property in all its forms.  Her experience spans both drafting and negotiating commercial contracts for the creation, transfer or licensing of intellectual property and the enforcement of rights through mediation, arbitration and litigation in the High Court and Patents County Court across a range of industries.   Lorna has experience of managing pan-European and global (including US) patent actions and is listed in the International Who’s Who of Patent Lawyers 2009 – 2011.

After acquiring a BSc (first class honours) in geophysics from Edinburgh University, Lorna took an LLM from Kings College London.  She qualified as a solicitor in 1994, as a solicitor-advocate for the higher courts in 2005 and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents.  She became a partner at Bird & Bird in 2001.

Lorna's reported cases include:

• Union Carbide Corp v BP Chemicals Ltd (1997) on a process for the production of polyethylene, including a significant project on the assessment of damages.
• The Horne Engineering Company v Reliance Water Controls (1999) on thermostatic valves
• Oxford Gene Technology Ltd v Affymetrix (2000) on the synthesis of DNA and manufacture of DNA microarrays.  This case made new law on privilege in relation to disclosure of documents in connection with the amendment of granted patents
• Intel v VIA Technologies (2002) on computer chipsets
• Oakley Inc v H Young (Operations) Ltd & Ors (2004) (registered design)
• The Procter & Gamble Co v Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Ltd (2006) (the first UK case on the new Community Registered Design)
• ECB v DSS on anti-counterfeiting technology. 

Lorna has also worked on a variety of issues relating to e-commerce, including the establishment of certification authorities, the legal status of encryption technology and the use of digital signatures. 

She is the editor of the Intellectual Property Handbook (Law Society Pulishing, 2007), a regular speaker at conferences around the world on current intellectual property issues, and is author of Electronic Signature Law and Regulation (2nd edition Sweet & Maxwell, 2008) and co-author with Trevor Cook of The Copyright Directive: UK Implementation (Jordans, 2004).  She has contributed articles to a variety of publications, and wrote chapters in Database Law (ed Rees and Chalton, 1998) and The Pharmaceutical Pricing Compendium (Urch, 2003).