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Patrick McCallum
Is a Paralegal at Wright Hassall, LLP. He assists the Outsourcing, Technology and Commercial Team where he assisted in the drafting of an international master franchise agreement for a children’s fitness company seeking to expand into the Chinese market and produced comprehensive documentation to enable a company setting up a website to comply with the various pieces of e-commerce legislation, both in relation to business and consumer customers.
Patrick graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2011 and completed the LPC at the College of Law Birmingham the following year. He joined Wright Hassall in August 2012.
Recent Articles by Patrick McCallum
Most people are familiar with the four-finger KitKat bar which has been produced by Nestlé in the UK since 1935. In 2010 Nestlé decided to apply to register the four-finger shape of the KitKat bar as a trade mark. Cadbury, fearing Nestlé would be able to establish a monopoly on four-fingered chocolate products, raised an objection to the application. Nestlé were initially successful in their application but, following Cadbury’s legal challenge, the case escalated to the High Court and the CJEU where the shape was subjected to further scrutiny and ultimately rejected as a trademark.
