Simon Mounteney > Marks & Clerk > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Marks & Clerk
15 Fetter Lane
LONDON
EC4A 1BW
England

Work Department

Intellectual Property

Position

As a Partner and Patent Attorney, Simon works with a wide variety of traditional and cutting-edge technologies. He has notable experience in optical and electro-optical devices, display technology, batteries, power generation systems, semiconductor device fabrication, control systems, communications systems, automotive systems and various types of mechanical engineering.

Simon has significant experience of advising on IP portfolio management and patent strategy, with many clients undertaking multinational patent filing programmes. He continues to represent clients who produce some of the World’s most famous consumer products, but he also enjoys working with start-ups that are seeking to develop and structure their intellectual property for revenue generation and to secure investment. In addition, Simon has extensive experience prosecuting patent applications before the UK Intellectual Property Office and the European Patent Office, where he has also represented clients in oppositions and appeals.

Simon has a particularly strong practice among Asian clients and heads up the firm’s Korean business team.

Simon is listed in the Legal Media Guide to th​e World’s Leading Patent Law Experts and also in the IAM‘s Strategy 300 – a guide to the world’s leading IP strategists. He has also written widely on various aspects of IP and discussed both the law and economics of IP on television.

Career

Simon has over 30 years’ experience working in intellectual property. He has a degree in physics with subsidiary mathematics from the University of Reading and trained as a patent attorney with Marks & Clerk, becoming a Partner in 1996.

Education

BSc (Hons), Physics with Subsidiary Mathematics from the University of Reading

Lawyer Rankings

London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Patent attorneys

Marks & Clerk’s ‘highly intelligent and commercial team’ supports large pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies, as well as start-ups, SMEs and academic institutions. It also counts major players in the electronics and engineering spaces amongst its sizeable client base, and the team has demonstrable strength in assisting clients with patents regarding 3D printing, machine learning, and AI, especially with filing patent applications. Simon Mounteney and Robin Oxley jointly lead the team for London, which is also home to Will Nieuwenhuys, whose practice encompasses the entirety of the patent lifecycle, from drafting applications and prosecutions before the UKIPO and the EPO, to global portfolio management. Manchester-based Mike Williams has expertise in digital technologies, especially AI, and Thomas Prock (London) leads the additive manufacturing and 3D printing practice.