James Cross > Maucher Jenkins > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Maucher Jenkins Offices
7th Floor, Artillery House
11-19 Artillery Row
LONDON
SW1P 1RT
England
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James Cross
Work Department
Patents | IP Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Position
James is a Partner in the Patents team, a Chartered Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney and Higher Courts Litigator.
Career
James advises blue chip clients on worldwide patent protection, portfolio management and enforcement, as well as freedom to operate. His technical expertise includes mobile and contactless payment systems, wireless chipsets, mobile satellite and terrestrial cellular communications, satellite broadcast receivers and personal video recorders, biometric scanners, green tech, automotive and aircraft engineering, domestic appliances and thermostatic controls.
According to one client ‘He is one of the cleverest patent attorneys I have ever had the pleasure of working with, and is a real team player’. Another client describes James as ‘an outstanding individual, able to understand quite complex technical matters very quickly and propose a range of options to solve a problem.’ Further, clients have commented: ‘James Cross is clear thinking and knowledgeable, but equally important is an excellent communicator. He summarises complex issues and patiently explains matters so we can take decisions and find solutions.‘
James has been a partner of Maucher Jenkins for 25 years and currently manages the IT department, having introduced an entirely paperless document management system in 2009.
Languages
French, Russian (to O-level), Spanish, German (basic).
Memberships
AIPLA, AIPPI
Education
Eton College; Merton College, Oxford (1990 BA Physics, CPA, 1995 EPA, 2005 LLM). Patent attorney litigator 2012.
Leisure
In his spare time, James enjoys cooking and sailing.
Lawyer Rankings
London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Patent attorneys
Anglo-German firm Maucher Jenkins has offices located in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, and China (with a new office that opened in November 2022 in Upper Francon), and is therefore well-equipped to support a wide range of clients in filing and prosecuting patent applications, as well as assisting with patent portfolio and FTO reviews, and validity and infringement analysis. The team also boasts specialist patent litigators across the UK and Germany. In London, James Cross heads up the IT, satellites, software, fintech, and electronics work while Cambridge-based Hugh Dunlop chairs the telecoms, green energy, and the Internet-of-Things matters. Reuben Jacob (Edinburgh) spearheads the life sciences team, with expertise across medtech, pharmaceuticals, biotech, chemistry, and agrochemicals, and Holly Whitlock (Edinburgh) and Phil Treeby (London) both lead the engineering, physics, and mathematics patenting group.