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PATMA: Patent attorneys

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Reddie & Grose LLP

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Reddie & Grose LLP‘s group handles the array of domestic and cross-jurisdictional contentious and non-contentious patent matters across various industry sectors, including digital healthcare, chemistry and materials, transport, and energy and renewables. At the team’s helm are Steve Howe, Julie Milburn, who is experienced handling global patent and design protections for clients, and Pete Sadler who is an electronics and software specialist. The three co-lead alongside Cambridge-based engineering, materials and consumer products expert Will Ponder and head of life sciences Neil Thornton, as well as Munich-based Robin Ellis. Georgina Ainscow has strong drafting and prosecuting experience. All are based in London unless specified otherwise.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘Extremely proactive in advice, and nothing is too much trouble.’

  • ‘Very responsive, technically astute, pleasant to cooperate. Robin Ellis is to be highlighted as a star practitioner.’

  • ‘We have worked primarily with Robin Ellis who is an outstanding patent attorney. He knows his matters in and out, is very approachable and a pleasure to work with. I 100% recommend for any life sciences matters.’

  • ‘The team stands out for very strong technical and pharmaceutical industry specific knowledge.’

  • ‘Robin Ellis is an exceptional professional. Robin has a very strong technical background in chemistry and a remarkable skill to translate difficult chemistry concepts into easy to understand information.’

  • ‘Very high knowledge of technology and regulatory work, as well as EPO and national patent practices.'

Key clients

  • Intex
  • Airhead Design Ltd.
  • Livelink Aerospace
  • Darktrace
  • Petit Pli
  • Mara Renewables Corporation
  • Coherent

Work highlights

Advising Intex on infringement and revocation before the German courts and oppositions before the EPO, requiring close cooperation with legal teams in USA and Germany.
Advising Petit Pli and successfully implementing IP strategy by tidying matters earlier on in PCT application, arising in smooth prosecution in Europe, US, Japan, and China.
Advising Mara Renewables Corporation in EPO interventions in oppositions to invalidate or reduce scope of granted claims of two European patents asserted by the patentee DSM IP Assets in UK infringement proceedings against our client.

Practice head

Steve Howe; Julie Millburn; Pete Sadler; Will Ponder; Neil Thornton; Robin Ellis

Other key lawyers

Gillian Taylor; Georgina Ainscow; Bruce Torrance; Gavin Dundas