Hadi Godazgar

Associate

Hadi works in the Dispute Resolution team. He joined Carpmaels & Ransford after qualifying as a barrister at an IP-specialist set of chambers. He has broad experience of many aspects of patent litigation and is currently focussed on litigation in the UPC.

His litigation work in the UPC has included working on several infringement actions (including with counterclaims) and revocation actions on both the claimant and defendant side. Hadi has also been involved in defending a preliminary injunction application. The cases that he has worked on have mainly been in the pharmaceutical and biologics area. Alongside involvement in first instance proceedings, Hadi also has experience at the appellate level, having been involved in several procedural appeals, including a highly influential and well-publicised appeal on the change of language. He has also been involved in a couple of substantive appeals, including one high-profile pending appeal.​

In the UK, he has experience of FRAND litigation (technical and willingness trials) and disputes concerning medical devices, pharmaceuticals and semiconductor technology.

Hadi has extensive background in mathematics and physics. After obtaining a PhD in theoretical physics, he was awarded a junior research fellowship at King’s College Cambridge and then worked as a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for gravitational physics in Germany. His research included work on quantum field theory and black holes.

Away from work Hadi enjoys listening to and playing Persian music on the kamancheh. Having been introduced to mushroom picking in Germany, he is keen to develop his knowledge of fungi.

Qualifications

  • BSc (Hons) Mathematics and Physics (University of York)
  • Master of Advanced Study in Mathematics (University of Cambridge)
  • PhD Theoretical physics (University of Cambridge)
  • Barrister