Holly Whitlock > Maucher Jenkins > Farnham, England > Lawyer Profile
Maucher Jenkins Offices
BROADMEDE HOUSE
FARNHAM BUSINESS PARK
FARNHAM, SURREY
GU9 8QT
England
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Holly Whitlock
Work Department
Patents | Registered Designs | Engineering & Physics | IT, Software & Electronics
Position
Holly is a Partner in the Patents team and a Chartered Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney and Registered Representative before the Unified Patent Court.
Career
Holly has a wide range of experience in patent matters, but especially enjoys inventions with mathematical content, such as signal processing, image processing, coding, classification, including Artificial Intelligence.
During her career, Holly has handled a wide variety of technical fields, in drafting and worldwide prosecution of patent applications, and related matters, such as prior art and infringement advice, together with competitor analysis.
This includes patent matters for a number of significant direct clients located around the world, including the United States, Japan, the UK and elsewhere in Europe. She has significant experience in developing a patent portfolio relating to the MPEG 7 standard (multimedia content description standard), much of it relating to inventions involving complex mathematical techniques.
As a mathematician, Holly especially enjoys and excels at the analysis, abstraction and problem-solving aspects of being a patent attorney.
Holly served on the EPI council, and she is the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion officer for Maucher Jenkins. Holly is also the partner specifically responsible for the patent records department, continually working on improving efficiencies and keeping costs down while meeting client expectations.
Languages
French, German, Japanese
Memberships
CIPA, AIPPI, EPI.
Education
Wadham College, University of Oxford (1990 BA(Hons) Mathematics).
Leisure
Holly enjoys cycling, outdoor swimming and embroidery.
Cycling; member of CTC (Cyclists’ Touring Club) and British Cycling, qualified leader for British Cycling, leading women’s rides (Breeze Champion).
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.