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Chris Hamer

Chris Hamer is one of the world’s leading chemistry attorneys and widely considered as an expert in the field of ionic liquids and related technologies, although his expertise extends to numerous chemistry related technology areas, in particular food chemistry, natural food supplements, biochemicals, polymers, materials sciences, absorbent articles, catalytic processes and petrochemical technologies.

Andrew White

Andrew has been commended by clients for his proactive approach and understanding of business strategy. He likes to develop long term relationships with clients and their technical teams to really understand where a business is going, and how IP can be used as a tool to complement those drivers and help the business grow.

Philippa Griffin

Philippa joined Mathys & Squire in 2001, qualified as a Chartered Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney in 2005, and became a Partner of the firm in 2010. She holds a first class master’s degree in natural sciences and specialises in the fields of molecular biology, biopharma, and biotechnology.

Gary Johnston

Gary Johnston has over 25 years’ experience as a Trade Mark Attorney advising clients in matters relating to the adoption, protection, enforcement and exploitation of brand names and designs, both in the United Kingdom and globally. He has been a Partner at Mathys & Squire LLP since 2008. He works closely with IP specialists and other professionals from around the world in order to provide his clients with global IP solutions. He has a wealth of experience, having acted for regional, national and multinational trade mark owners in matters relating to the protection, management, maintenance and exploitation of their national and global trade mark portfolios and associated IP rights.

Dani Kramer

Dani works for a number of large corporations, drafting and prosecuting patent applications, and managing their international patent portfolios. He advises on technology-based agreements and handles contentious infringement and validity matters. Dani heads up our specialist Israel practice after spending years working with Israeli clients and attorney firms based in Israel.

Sean Leach

Sean is an expert in the drafting of intellectual property (IP) agreements, IP licences and in the drafting and prosecution of European and UK patent applications. His principal areas of technical expertise are electronics, medical devices, and software.

Alan MacDougall

Alan MacDougall heads up our Cambridge office and has over two decades of experience within the electronics and communications sectors. He works for high profile clients such as NEC, GHD and Intuitive Surgical. Alan also takes the lead in our Japanese business development projects. Alan has many years’ experience of drafting patents, prosecuting them through the UK and European Patent Offices, advising on infringement and validity, and the commercialisation of clients’ IP, as well as offering global IP strategic advice, including freedom-to-operate advice, licensing advice, entitlement disputes and competitor monitoring.

Martin MacLean

Martin MacLean’s principal practice areas include; drafting and global prosecution, defence and opposition, freedom-to-operate and strategic advice. In this regard, he has extensive experience in the conduct of hearings before the European Patent Office, having conducted over 100 hearings. Martin specialises in technologies such as the re-targeting of bacterial toxins, vaccines, expression systems, microbial detection assays, cytokine-based therapeutics, and agrochemicals, and represents clients ranging from UK Government and blue chip biotech companies through to spin-outs and start-ups.

Andrea McShane

Andrea works for diverse clients ranging from private inventors to academic entities, SMEs, and large multinational corporations. She lived in southern California for 10 years and is bilingual in German and English. She has a strong academic background including degrees in mechanical engineering and chemical biology, and has conducted research in bio-MEMS, microfabrication, high-energy physics, chemical nanosciences, and biomedical engineering.

Oliver Parish

Oliver is a Partner in Mathys & Squire’s IT & engineering team. Oliver works with a wide range of clients including large corporations and SMEs as well as universities, startups and individual inventors, primarily drafting and prosecuting UK and European patent applications and managing international patent portfolios. Oliver also has experience in wider strategic and contentious matters, having advised clients in respect of disputes regarding the infringement and validity of patents and registered designs, as well as patent licensing, IP due diligence, and freedom to operate.

James Pitchford

James has significant experience with patent matters (including drafting, filing, prosecution, oppositions, appeals, portfolio management and due diligence) in the physical sciences, working with entrepreneurs, startups, spinouts and SMEs, alongside large corporations, research institutions and universities.

Harry Rowe

Harry is a Partner in the firm’s trade marks team. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (CITMA). Harry has experience working with a range of clients, from SMEs to multinationals, in relation to trade mark and wider intellectual property (IP) matters around the world.

Rebecca Tew

Rebecca has over 25 years’ experience in the intellectual property industry. After qualifying as a trade mark attorney in 1993, she joined a well known international firm of patent and trade mark attorneys, where she spent many years as a Partner before joining Mathys & Squire to head up its Birmingham practice.

James Wilding

James’ practice focuses on European Patent Office (EPO) prosecution and opposition work in the life sciences sector. He also has extensive experience with supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) and has prosecuted SPC applications covering a number of blockbuster drugs.