Toby Bond

Senior Associate, Bird & Bird

Toby Bond is an intellectual property (IP) solicitor in Bird & Bird’s London office specialising in high-tech patent, trade secrets and copyright litigation and the practical application of IP rights to data and artificial intelligence systems. He is a member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) Standing Committee on Digital Economy and a member of council for AIPPI UK. Toby is also the co-author of the UK chapter of Thompson Reuters’ Trade Secrets Throughout the World and the author of the UK chapter of Kluwer’s Law of Raw Data. He is a tutor in patent law for the University of Oxford’s postgraduate diploma in intellectual property law and practice and was named one of Global Data Review’s ‘40 under 40’ data lawyers in 2021.