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Hugh Dunlop

Work Department

Patents | IT, Software & Telecommunications

Position

Hugh is a Chartered Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney.

Hugh has over 30 years of experience in the patent profession, including 13 years with Motorola, the US mobile radio and semiconductor manufacturer. While in the United States he passed the US Patent and Trademarks Office examination to be recognized to practice before that office. He attended the John Marshall Law School in Chicago where he was awarded a Fred Herzog scholarship and an LLM in Intellectual Property Law.

Hugh has significant experience in IT, mobile communications and software sectors. As well as patent filing and prosecution work, he also has extensive licensing experience, particularly in the field of standards of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.

He is registered representative on the EPO register for over 5000 European patent applications.

He is the partner responsible for the QUALCOMM client team.

Career

Trained Carpmaels & Ransford, London and qualified 1988. European Patent Attorney and then Senior Patent Counsel at Motorola Inc. European Patent Operations, Basingstoke 1988-95 and Schaumburg, Illinois 1995-99; European Licensing Counsel, Motorola, Basingstoke 1999-2002.

Partner at Maucher Jenkins in 2002 (previously RGC Jenkins & Co.).

Current directorships: Jenkins IP Ltd.

Publications of note:
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IoT Lights Up’, H. Dunlop and J. Davies, Intellectual Property Magazine 2 March 2020

‘Harmonisation is not the issue’. CIPA, February 2016.

‘European Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court‘. CIPA, 2nd Edition 2014.

‘No switching between inventions – Not a mere Guideline, but a new Rule?’, CIPA,  September 2012.

‘New EPO Guideline and the criteria for refusing discretion for entering of amendments’, CIPA,  July 2012.

‘Need to Revise Guideline on Rule 45(3) – Claims being Deemed Abandoned’, PI Information 4/2011, 140.

‘A Practical Guide to the Patent Prosecution Highway’, Managing Intellectual Property, April 2009 (Contributing Author).

‘Home Truths about the EPO’, Managing Intellectual Property, October 2008.

Languages

Conversational French and German.

Memberships

AIPLA, CIPA, EPI.

Education

Campbell College, Belfast, (1986 MA); St. John’s College, Cambridge, (1988 CPA), (1988 EPA); John Marshall Law School, Chicago, (1999 LLM).

Leisure

In his spare time, Hugh enjoys being a member of the Piscatorial Society, Royal Overseas League.