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Alan Bates
Alan Bates
Partner Alan advises on all aspects of procuring patent rights, from initial meetings with inventors, through drafting, filing, and prosecuting patent applications, to managing international portfolios of patents and patent applications. He represents clients, where necessary, in oral proceedings before the European Patent Office. Alan also advises on issues related to freedom to operate, validity of patent rights, patentability of inventions, and infringement of patent rights.Alan handles registered designs in fields such as medical devices.
Alice Findlay
Alice Findlay
ChairmanOn the patent side, Alice’s practice is widespread but with particular focus on the mechanical and material science sectors. Product areas range from everyday household items to sophisticated medical equipment. She has extensive experience with Oral Proceedings at the European Patent Office at the Examining Division, Opposition Division and Appeal Board levels. She has attended over 40 Oral Proceedings at the EPO Munich alone and has significant experience of how to get the best for her clients, both in examination and opposition. Alice’s trade mark clients include a number whose marks are household names. She handles clearing marks for use, through to filing and inter partes issues pre- and post-registration. When working with both trade marks and designs, Alice regularly gets involved in disputes between rights holders and alleged infringers. Her approach is to endeavour to achieve a pragmatic settlement but to fight when the occasion warrants it. This has proved extremely successful over the years.
Andrew Carridge
Andrew Carridge
PartnerAndrew’s work covers a wide range of areas within the life sciences sector including antimicrobial formulations, haemostatic and wound healing agents, tissue regeneration, pharmaceuticals, and disease diagnosis. He has also undertaken work on medical devices such as wound dressings, oxygen delivery apparatus and orthotics.Although Andrew’s main focus is within the life sciences sector, he benefits from experience in other areas, such as building materials and compositions, heating systems and consumer goods.
Bruce Torrance
AssociateBruce qualified as a European patent attorney in 2019 and has experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the UK, Europe and further afield for a wide range of clients ranging from individual inventors to large multinational corporations. His practice covers a variety of technical fields and includes electronic components, amplifiers and transformers, telecommunication systems, semiconductor devices, consumer electronics and computer implemented inventions, including AI and machine learning inventions. Bruce also has experience in the digital healthcare sector, including ultrasound sensors and bioinformatics. He has also handled registered designs in Europe and internationally.
Georgina Ainscow
Georgina Ainscow
Partner Georgina works on patent cases in the fields of physics, engineering, electronics, software and business methods. She has extensive experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications, and representing clients before the UK and European Patent Offices. As well as drafting and prosecution work, she advises on invention harvesting, international patent portfolio management and IP strategy. Georgina’s areas of specialism include the video coding, telecommunications and optical device fields, where she regularly represents clients before the examining division of the European Patent Office.
Helen Wakerley
Helen Wakerley
PartnerHelen is responsible for the trade mark portfolios of many of our UK clients and has particular experience in the automotive sector. She works on design protection both from a trade mark angle, looking at graphic symbol protection and product get-up, as well as from the more traditional three dimensional innovative design approach. Helen’s patent practice is in the chemical, biochemical and pharmaceutical field. She has particular experience in the field of neuroscience. Her UK clients obtain patents around the world and she acts before the European Patent Office for non-UK companies. Her work in this field is in the prosecution of patent applications, as well as handling opposition work. She is regularly involved in due diligence reports and portfolio advice for her larger clients.
Jan Vleck
Jan Vleck
Partner Jan’s trade mark practice includes clients of all sizes. Jan has significant experience in prosecuting applications around the world. He regularly handles the planning for and resolution of trade mark conflicts and has considerable experience of settlement, consent and co-existence agreements on an international scale.His patent clients include companies in the fields of: medical equipment; aircraft and aerospace technology, pressure, temperature and speed sensors for use in hostile environments; oil and gas exploration,  production and distribution; military or defence equipment; wave and tide energy; and consumer products.
Jon West
Jon West
Senior AssociateJon’s practice includes applications relating to CCDs, audio and video processing, telecommunications, magnetrons, integrated circuits, security systems, electronic trading systems and other computer implemented inventions. Jon is experienced in drafting and prosecuting patent applications for both individual inventors and large corporations in the UK, Europe and further afield and also has experience of representing clients at Oral Proceedings in front of the Examining and Opposition Divisions at the European Patent Office.
Joshua Parsi
Joshua Parsi
AssociateJosh joined Reddie & Grose in September 2015 after completing a Master’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering at Imperial College London. Through his academic experience, Josh was able to be involved on various projects involving fluid dynamics, structural analysis, turbomachinery, wind turbine design, MRI, robotics and automated drones.  This means that Josh is able to assist clients in a wide variety of technical fields, ranging from aerospace to medical devices and other consumer products.
Juan Sánchez García
Juan Sánchez García
AssociateJuan has extensive experience prosecuting European patent applications and filing oppositions and appeals with the European Patent Office, and he has regularly represented his clients at Oral Proceedings in Munich and The Hague. Likewise, he has prepared a significant amount of infringement and clearance opinions. He has worked with small inventors but mostly with large multinational corporations, not only in the automotive field; and notably, he has represented Europe’s largest aeronautical company. Juan has also handled patent work in Europe and internationally in industry sectors such as oil extraction methods, tyre manufacturing, exhaust gas recirculation systems, composite materials, optics, tobacco-based consumer products or heat dissipation devices, among others.
Michael Roberts
Michael Roberts
PartnerMichael has acted for clients from around the world, including small and medium-sized companies, multinationals and universities. In addition to patent drafting and prosecution, he assists clients with due diligence and patent reports, notably for private or public fund raising, patent portfolio advice, and issues such as freedom to operate and patent validity. Recently, Michael has contributed to The CIPA Guide to Patents Acts, 9th edition. This publication combines knowledge from 30 legal professionals, all individually selected for their proficient knowledge. Michael is one of the IAM Top 1000 patent attorneys.
Neil Thornton
Neil Thornton
Partner Neil practices mainly in biotechnological, pharmaceutical, and chemical patent work. He has particular experience in the fields of immunology, cancer (particularly cancer immunotherapy), neurodegenerative diseases, complement-mediated disorders, age-related macular degeneration, stem cells, gene therapy, inflammation, analgesia, biomarkers, monoclonal antibodies, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases, diagnosis and treatment of blood disorders, nucleic acid testing, antimicrobial agents, wound healing and electrochemistry. Neil’s practice involves the drafting, filing and prosecution of patent applications worldwide, the handling of oppositions at the European Patent Office, due diligence work, and advice on freedom to operate and general intellectual property strategy.
Patrick Lloyd
Patrick Lloyd
PartnerPatrick’s patent practice is mainly in the electrical and electronics fields, with a particular focus on electronic trading systems, computer implemented inventions and telecommunications. His background in Engineering Science also allows him to bring a deep understanding to patent applications in the areas of power systems, semiconductors, manufacturing technology, wind turbines and cleantech inventions.Patrick’s clients include a broad range of international companies and universities based in the UK and Europe, the USA and Japan. His specialities include assisting clients with invention spotting, drafting new applications, devising patent filing strategies for protection around the world, preparing infringement and validity opinions, and advising on competitor activities. Patrick also handles trade mark matters, particularly in the financial sector.He has a wide experience of all aspect of trade mark practice including the selection and clearance of new marks, worldwide registration, oppositions and dispute resolution.
Paul Loustalan
Paul Loustalan
Partner In the office, Paul’s practice includes drafting, filing and prosecuting patent applications relating to the automotive field including electric vehicles and associated technologies such as cooling, battery mounts, control and autonomous driving systems. In addition, he has substantial experience relating to underwater vehicles and associated tooling, systems and sensors for the oil & gas industry, manufacturing processes, medical apparatus, as well as software, consumer electronics and even toys. Paul has a great understanding of how to develop intellectual property portfolios for individual inventors, multinational manufacturers, and SMEs in between. He advises on the most appropriate form, scope, and combination of protection for the project at hand – whether that be patents, designs, copyright, or trade secrets – in order to build a robust and commercially appropriate IP portfolio. Along with the high-level portfolio development, Paul has in-depth experience of drafting and prosecuting patent applications for international prosecution in the UK, Europe, and worldwide, as well as advising on complex issues of ownership and assignment. He also advises on commercial issues, such as due diligence and Infringement Risk Analysis (Freedom to Operate), considering the validity and potential infringement risk of third party patent rights to provide his clients with visibility on the risks involved in any new project. Paul equally has a great record at Opposition oral proceedings before the EPO, helping his clients to reduce the risk and barriers to entry for their new products entering the market.
Pete Sadler
Pete Sadler
PartnerA large part of Pete’s practice involves advising on the patentability of software related inventions in areas such as data processing and business systems, medical devices, control of industrial machines, consumer entertainment devices, user interface software for mobiles and other consumer devices, video games and music software and audio processing. Pete and his team also have detailed technical knowledge in applications of photonics and photovoltaics. His clients range from start-ups and SMEs, who he advises on IP strategy for maximising value to investors, through to multinational companies, who he assists with cost effective patent drafting and prosecution. With experience filing and prosecuting patent portfolios in the US, China and many other jurisdictions, Pete drafts applications with a view to successful protection around the world. Pete’s clients are based all over the UK, Europe and beyond, with a number of local clients in the Thames Valley, Berkshire and Oxfordshire areas.      
Phil Bates
Phil Bates
Partner        Phil specialises in the drafting, filing and prosecution of patent applications before the UK and European patent offices. Phil has a broad range of experience of patent practice around the world, including practice in emerging markets. He regularly provides opinions on the strength of third party rights for his clients, and has an excellent track record in third party opposition and appeal proceedings before the European Patent Office.Phil’s clients include medium-sized pharmaceutical firms (based in Europe, the US, Japan and India) as well as small start-ups.
Robert Sackin
Robert Sackin
Partner Robert advises on a broad range of patent issues. One focus of his practice is on prosecuting patent applications related to computer implemented inventions including electronic trading systems used by the world’s largest banks, consumer electronics, set-top box technology, telecommunication systems, Internet of Things and artificial intelligence. Another focus has been in technologies with both a mechanical and electrical or electronic aspect including various fields of wind turbine technology, data centre construction and antennas for mobile phone networks, as well as purely mechanical technology such as car park design and vehicle suspension systems.
Tom Sharman
Tom Sharman
Partner Tom develops protection strategies for innovations, designs and brands for clients ranging from start-ups to multinationals. Tom’s trade mark practice includes advising on the availability of marks and the potential impact of third party marks, building global portfolios, preparing and filing oppositions and negotiating settlements. He works with clients to protect the look and feel of their websites, graphical user interfaces and mobile apps worldwide. He also advises on online infringement of clients’ marks and designs. Tom also works with clients to protect innovations and designs in the mechanical and automotive fields in key jurisdictions around the world. Current projects include a range of automotive developments including two stroke engines, transmission systems, engine bearings and conrod assemblies, as well as aircraft seats and seating configurations, heavy lifting and moving equipment and a range of consumer products. He advises on the level of risk associated with launching new products in these crowded technical fields, on whether action can be taken to prevent the sale of competing products, and on the strength and scope of third party patents and designs.
William Ponder
William Ponder
PartnerWill advises on patents and designs in most areas of physics and engineering. In addition to patent searching, drafting and prosecution worldwide, Will handles opposition and appeal hearings at the European Patent Office and at the UKIPO. He also advises on infringement and validity issues, and has experience of conducting freedom to operate searches.Will’s registered design work includes advising clients in the medical devices and consumer goods sectors.