The IPKat team [including Merpel, of course] send their hearty congratulations to two newly-minted QCs with appropriately silky IP skills:

• Andrew Norris (Hogarth Chambers), a trade marks specialist who was involved in (among others) the Jack Wills v House of Fraser and Fenty v Topshop cases; and
• James Segan (Blackstone Chambers), whose admirably broad practice takes in (among other things) IP and media matters, including the recent Conversant v Huawei and ZTE Supreme Court appeal. 

The recent appointees will no doubt be able to confirm or refute the accuracy of this artist's impression of the notoriously challenging QC appointment process.