• Carrying out strategic appraisals of product packaging and identifying market requirements
• Providing advice and reports as an Expert Witness, particularly in matters involving technical investigation, intellectual property rights and alternative dispute resolution related to packaging

Background to Expert Witness

"An expert can be anyone with knowledge or experience of a particular field or discipline beyond that to be expected of a layman. An expert witness is an expert who makes this knowledge and experience available to a court to help it understand the issues of a case and thereby reach a sound and just decision."
source, the UK Register of Expert Witnesses.

The UK Register of Expert Witnesses consists of a vetted list of practicing experts such as Tony Gregory; each of whom has to be recommended by law companies before they can be included on the UK Register. These recommendations are based on litigation cases for which the Expert Witness has received instructions from lawyers to give advice or prepare an Expert Report, usually for future use by the Courts or Arbitrators.

Tony Gregory is experienced in providing law firms and industry legal departments with such Litigation Support and Expert Witness services for many aspects of packaging. Typical examples have been concerned with packaging materials suitability, pack design, performance, patent and trade-mark issues. The decisions on a trademark case can be viewed on-line at:
http://www.patent.gov.uk/tm/legal/decisions/interpartes2004.htm
(About half way down the page is a link to all 4 decisions, under case numbers O/50/04 to O/54/04).