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Benet practises in all areas of Intellectual Property law as well as contract disputes with a technical or entertainment law aspect.

Over the past few years Benet has gained particular expertise and experience in trade mark law.  He most recently appeared in Cartier and others v BskyB and others, which established the availability of Internet blocking injunctions in trade mark matters.  He has appeared in a number of significant recent Court of Appeal decisions on trade mark matters: Assos v Asos and Merck KgaA v Merck Sharp & Dohme.  He has frequently appeared before both the General Court and Court of Justice of the EU in appeals from OHIM.  He regularly represents clients at the Intellectual Property Office and on appeal from the IPO both before the Appointed Person and to the High Court.  He is an editor of the Citma & Cipa European Union Trade Mark Handbook and has contributed to Westlaw insights on Trade Mark Procedure and Trade Mark Evidence.

Before being appointed Queen’s Counsel Benet was appointed to the Attorney-General’s A panel of Counsel in September 2015l, whose members deal with the most complex government cases in all kinds of courts and tribunals, often against QCs.   Benet was previously on the C panel, from 2005 to 2010.