David Stone

David Stone is a partner in the London office of White & Case, focussing primarily on trade marks, copyright, passing off and registered and unregistered design rights.  In addition to his busy IP litigation practice, David is a former board member of INTA and of MARQUES, the Association of European Brand Owners. 

A graduate of the Universities of Sydney, Oxford and Cambridge, David’s European Union Design Law: a Practitioners’ Guide (3rd edition) will be published by Oxford University Press in 2025.  David also teaches on the Oxford IP Diploma course, and the IP Magister Lvcentinvs course at the University of Alicante. 

David is on the editorial boards of the Oxford Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice (OUP), European Intellectual Property Review (Sweet & Maxwell), and Managing Intellectual Property. 

David sits part time as a Deputy High Court Judge, hearing cases in the Patents Court, Intellectual Property Enterprise Court and general Chancery Division.