EIP

EIP Strategy, EIP Digital.

Partner, UK and European Patent Attorney

Matt joined EIP after three years as IP Director in an IP-rich photonics start-up. For the 10 years before that he was an in-house IP counsel in BT and then Hewlett-Packard, developing patent portfolios for HP Labs in the fields of Internet security and cryptography. His commercial experience from in-house roles combined with an innate ability to distil complex legal subject matter into easily digestible advice underlies Matt’s approach to practice. Matt is well placed to advise clients on the new Unified Patent Court (UPC) - see further details at EIP Amar, our alliance created to support clients in any litigation before the UPC.

Matt is head of the EIP Strategy practice group, and in 2013 and 2014 was acknowledged as being one of the world’s leading IP strategists in the IAM Strategy 300. He has extensive experience of developing, communicating and implementing IP strategies and is regularly called upon to do so by companies ranging from start-up, through SME to leading FTSE-100 names.

Matt's patent practice spans a broad base of technologies including electronics, software, machine learning, computer hardware and architectures, semiconductors and telecommunications networks and systems.

• 2005 — present
  Partner, EIP
• 2004 — 2006
  IP Director, Zoo Digital Group plc
• 2001 — 2004
  IP Director, Blaze Photonics
• 1997 — 2001
  IP Counsel, Hewlett-Packard
• 1992 — 1997
  Patent Attorney, BT
• 1991 — 1992
  Data Comms Engineer, BT
• 1989 — 1991
  R&D Software Engineer, Philips Medical Systems

Conversational French

CIPA.

• UK Chartered Patent Attorney, 2002
• European Patent Attorney, 2003
• 1987 — 1991
  MEng, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey

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