David Stone is a partner at White & Case LLP, specialising in intellectual property (IP) protection and litigation practice. He is a keen design rights proponent, encouraging designers to protect their work and advocating for improvements to the ways in which legal systems protect the appearance of a product. A graduate of the universities of Sydney, Oxford, and Cambridge, David teaches design law at the universities of Oxford and Alicante, and writes widely on the subject. He also sits part-time as a Deputy High Court Judge (England & Wales), is a jury member for the DesignEuropa Award, and is on the editorial boards of several leading IP journals.