Julie Millburn > Reddie & Grose LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Reddie & Grose LLP
THE WHITECHAPEL BUILDING
10 WHITECHAPEL HIGH STREET
LONDON
E1 8QS
England

Work Department

Patents & Designs

Position

Partner

Julie assists clients in obtaining worldwide patent and design protection.

Career

Dr. Julie Millburn joined Reddie & Grose in 2000 and was made a partner in 2005. Julie advises UK and overseas clients on patent and design matters. She handles patent work in pure chemical, applied chemical and general mechanical fields, including medical devices, building materials, food technology, the tobacco industry and packaging.

Julie has experience of filing and prosecuting patent applications before the UK and European Patent Offices, of handling oppositions before the European Patent Office and of filing UK design applications. She also coordinates filing and prosecution of patent and design applications and regularly organises patent and design infringement clearance searches for her clients in countries around the world.

She has considerable experience of obtaining registered design protection for consumer products and packaging.

Memberships

American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)

Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA)

European Practitioners in Intellectual Property (UNION)

Education

European Patent Attorney (2003)

Chartered Patent Attorney (2003)

D.Phil. (doctorate) in inorganic chemistry, Oxford University

Degree in chemistry, Oxford University

Leisure

Julie is a fan of P.G. Wodehouse, Audrey Hepburn and Billie Holiday and enjoys vegetarian cookery.

Lawyer Rankings

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

Chairman Alice Findlay and executive partner Jan Vleck oversee the practice at Reddie & Grose LLP, which has a wide-ranging patent offering. Key workstreams include drafting, filing, prosecutions and oppositions, as well as support with enforcement, defence, IP strategy, and disputes. Julie Millburn helms the engineering, materials and consumer products group, while Nick Reeve heads up the electronics and software group. Neil Thornton chairs the life sciences offering. Simon Goodman leads the Cambridge office, where he focuses chiefly on biotechnological, pharmaceutical, and chemical patent work.