Mark Roberts > J A Kemp > London, England > Lawyer Profile
J A Kemp Offices
80 Turnmill Street
London
EC1M 5QU
England
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Mark Roberts
Work Department
Engineering and IT
Position
Partner, European and UK Patent Attorney
Career
Mark is a European and UK Patent Attorney. Mark handles a broad spectrum of work originating from the UK and USA, including drafting, filing and prosecuting patent applications as well as advising on third party patents as part of due diligence and freedom to operate exercises. He has a special focus on medical devices and medical machines and acts for a number of medical technology clients. He visits patent applicants and attorneys regularly in the USA.
Mark is extremely experienced in contentious proceedings before the European Patent Office and usually attends several Opposition Division hearings each year, as well as attending a significant number of Examining Division and Board of Appeal hearings. Mark has attended over 100 EPO hearings and has acted in a number of commercially important cases, both defending his clients’ patents and attacking patents owned by competitors.
Mark has detailed knowledge of the intricacies of European prosecution and is also responsible within J A Kemp for monitoring changes in patent law worldwide.
As well as European and British patent work, Mark has substantial experience in obtaining patent protection for clients abroad, especially in the USA, Japan, Korea and China. Mark is experienced in drafting, filing and prosecuting families of applications abroad and is able to coordinate patent filing programmes in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
Mark joined J A Kemp in 1997 and became a partner in 2007. He is based in our London office.
Memberships
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA); Member of the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (EPI); Affiliate membership of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM)
Education
University of Oxford, Masters Degree in Engineering Science
Lawyer Rankings
London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Patent attorneys
J A Kemp is well placed to advise clients on the entire gamut of patent-related mandates, from drafting and filings, to prosecutions, oppositions, and appeals before the EPO, freedom to operate mandates, and portfolio management, with offices located in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, and Munich. Start-ups and growing businesses, in addition to large corporations and prestigious academic institutions, form the group’s impressive client base, with a geographical spread across the UK, Europe, the US, and Japan. The firm is also increasingly active before the UPC. Senior partner Martin Jackson leads the engineering and IT group, having taken over from Nigel Price following his retirement. Oxford-based Amanda Simons spearheads the chemistry and pharmaceuticals department, and Patrick Campbell heads up the firm’s biotechnology and life sciences practice. Mark Roberts sits at the helm of the medical devices group, while Ravi Srinivasan chairs the pharmaceuticals team and John Leeming steers the software group. Graham Lewis is also of note for his role as head of the Supplementary Protection Certificates group. In team news, the ‘superbly intelligent patent litigator‘ John Hornby joined the firm from Lewis Silkin in March 2024.
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- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Patent attorneys
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