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Boult Wade Tennant

VERULAM GARDENS, 70 GRAY'S INN ROAD, LONDON, WC1X 8BT, ENGLAND
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Work 020 7430 7500
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Fax 020 7430 7600
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Reading, Oxford, London, Cambridge

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TMT (technology, media and telecoms)

Within Overview,

The Legal Services Act and client demand for one-stop shops for IP law have driven convergence between law firms and PATMA firms, with some law firms, notably Olswang and Squire Sanders Hammonds, including patent and trade mark attorneys in their teams. PATMA firms are starting to hire lawyers, with D Young & Co LLP recruiting Ashurst LLP’s IP litigation team. Ipulse hired trade mark head Julius Stobbs from leading PATMA firm Boult Wade Tennant and, more recently, patent attorney Justin Hill from McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP.

Within Patent and trade mark attorneys: The Regions, Boult Wade Tennant is a first tier firm,

Boult Wade Tennant has sizeable teams in Cambridge and Reading, as well as a presence in Oxford. The hi-tech and electrical group handles opposition and prosecution work, for clients such as LG Electronics, Vodafone, Yahoo! and the Boeing Company. The biotech and life sciences team acts for a number of start-up companies. Other clients include Beckman Coulter and Dow Chemical Company. In Cambridge, senior partner Bruce Alexander retired, while software specialist Jason Pelly in the Reading office became a partner.

Within Patent attorneys: London, Boult Wade Tennant is a first tier firm,

‘One of the top firms’, Boult Wade Tennant has a ‘good team of individuals with a diverse skill set’ and ‘provides a complete service’ to a client base that includes Yahoo!, KeyMed, Abbott Laboratories and Kraft Foods. Highlights included successfully defending Rapid Action Packaging’s ‘long-life sandwich pack’ patent at a High Court appeal. Rupert Cross became senior partner in 2011, following the retirement of Bruce Alexander. Part of the hi-tech and electrical group, Cross and Dr Alex Frost form a ‘technically and legally very astute team’, and group head Dr Jonathan Palmer is ‘organised, consistent and supportive of clients and his team’. In the chemical and materials group, Dr Rohan Setna ‘always provides very good advice’. The ‘technically excellent and commercially very astute’ Tony Pluckrose acts for The Boeing Company on filings and European oppositions.

Within Trade mark attorneys: London, Boult Wade Tennant is a first tier firm,

Boult Wade Tennant is appreciated for its ‘honest, straightforward advice and well-structured teams’. Headline work included advising Group Lotus in an infringement dispute regarding the Team Lotus brand, as well as clearances for Coty Inc and RDF Media. Other representative clients include Marks & Spencer, EDF Energy and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Emma Pitcher and Tony Pluckrose are ‘technically excellent and commercially very astute’. John Wallace is ‘very knowledgeable, explains things clearly, and is always prepared to go the extra mile’, and Catherine Wolfe has ‘an astronomical intellect’.

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