Simon Goodman > Reddie & Grose LLP > Cambridge, England > Lawyer Profile

Reddie & Grose LLP
CLARENDON HOUSE
CLARENDON ROAD
CAMBRIDGE
CB2 8FH
England

Work Department

Patents & Trade Marks

Position

Partner

Simon handles a wide variety of patent work in fields including engineering, materials, electronics, software, medical devices, telecommunications and cryptography.

Simon advises clients in many sectors on trade mark use and protection. He has experience of trade mark clearance searching and selection, filing programmes to register trade marks around the world and inter partes matters such as co-existence agreements and negotiated settlements.

Career

Having trained with Reddie & Grose, Simon was invited to join the partnership in 1999. He has over 25 years’ experience of advising clients in patent, trade mark and design matters.

His clients, who include a wide range of companies and universities in the physical sciences, are located in the USA, China, India, Japan and the EU but are primarily based in Cambridge and East Anglia.

Memberships

Cambridge Cleantech

Cambridge Network

Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys

Society for Computers and Law

Education

Chartered Trade Mark Attorney (2001)

Chartered Patent Attorney (1994)

European Patent Attorney (1992)

PhD in Materials Science, Cambridge University

MA in Natural Sciences, (specialising in Physics & Materials Science), Cambridge University

Leisure

In his spare time, he has a passion for cycling, horology, hiking and gliding.

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.