


Georgia Carr
As an IP solicitor, Georgia enjoys a mixed but complementary practice, handling litigation in the UK courts and the Unified Patent Court (UPC), as well as drafting and negotiating complex IP-centric agreements. She has extensive experience advising on contentious and non-contentious IP matters across all technical areas and sectors.
Georgia helps businesses navigate and resolve intellectual property (IP) disputes. She plays a central role in the firm’s UPC focus group, drawing on experience from working on some of the first cases filed in this forum. She also regularly comments on UPC decisions and developments.
Alongside her litigation work, Georgia drafts and negotiates a wide range of agreements where IP is central. She helps clients achieve favourable commercial terms and mitigate risk when delivering key projects, and when developing or commercialising new products and services. Her transactional experience spans global brand licences for creative businesses, research and development (R&D) agreements in the life sciences sector, and software development agreements.
On a daily basis, Georgia works closely with the firm’s trade mark and patent attorneys to ensure procedural, technical and strategic considerations are fully aligned when advising clients.
- Litigation in the UK courts - including the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC), High Court and Court of Appeal - and the UPC, primarily on patent and trade mark matters, but across all rights
- UPC and UK court procedure; recognised as a leading contributor on Mondaq for UPC thought leadership
- Litigation and freedom-to-operate (FTO) strategies
- Pre-action disputes and settlements
- IP transactions and other IP agreements
- Trade secrets and confidentiality regimes; recent experience includes conducting a trade secrets audit for a listed Swedish biotech company
- IP audits and due diligence
- In-house experience through secondment to a financial institution’s commercial contracts team
- Postgraduate Diploma, Intellectual Property Law and Practice, University of Oxford
- Legal Practice Course with integrated LLM, Nottingham Law School
- LLB, University of Leeds
Very knowledgeable for trademark work.
Georgia Carr is a strong choice for electronics and fashion entities.
- Legal 500: Leading Associate
- Mondaq Thought Leadership Awards
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How We Live Our Values: Collaboration
I love helping clients navigate problems and find commercial solutions, especially in high-pressure scenarios. One of the most enjoyable parts of my job is working as part of a team - often large, cross-disciplinary teams for litigation - to help deliver results for clients. Having trained at the firm myself, I now dedicate time to supporting and mentoring new and junior fee earners, which I find particularly rewarding.
In My Own Words
I was lucky enough to gain exposure to intellectual property as an undergraduate. Not only was it my favourite module at law school, but I was also mentored by an IP solicitor and gained experience at several law firms during the summer holidays. That’s what led me to join Potter Clarkson - to do all things IP!
I may be biased, but it’s the most varied area of commercial law and one that continues to challenge me academically. I get to analyse different inventions, innovations and brands every day, and it’s hard to get bored.
Two career highlights that stand out are winning (with my litigation colleagues) UK Impact Case of the Year at the MIP Awards for three consecutive years (2021–2023), and more recently, helping shape early UPC case law as part of two ‘day one’ cases.
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