Nick Reeve > Reddie & Grose LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

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

Patents

Position

Partner

Nick is a fluent Japanese speaker specialising in patents in the electronics sector.

He routinely advises clients on patent searching and due diligence matters, as well as infringement and validity issues posed by third party patents.

Nick acts as client liaison with the firm’s Japanese clients, and gives lectures on Japanese Patent Law at Queen Mary University.

Career

Nick joined Reddie & Grose in 1999 was made a partner in 2005. Nick primarily handles patent applications relating to electronics, electrical devices and computer implemented inventions.

Nick has particular expertise drafting and prosecuting applications relating to sensing and control devices, semiconductor technology and power amplifiers. He has an in-depth knowledge of the patentability and enforcement issues surrounding digital media and telecommunication technologies, and software and business method inventions.

Nick is a fluent Japanese speaker and before joining the firm spent a year in the Nagasaki prefecture of Japan. On returning to London, he continued his language education and has twice participated in the finals of the Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese.

He has also lectured and written a number of related publications on the patentability of software and business methods in the UK and Europe.

Languages

Japanese

Memberships

Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA)

Education

European Design Attorney

Japanese Proficiency Exam (JLPT): Level 1 (Highest Level) (2004)

European Patent Attorney (2003)

Chartered Patent Attorney (2003)

MSci, Physics, Imperial College (1998)

Leisure

Nick enjoys music by Bob Dylan, and books by John Irving and Haruki Murakami.

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.