Rebecca Matheson
Gill Jennings & Every LLP
Gill Jennings & Every LLP
Client SatisfactionGill Jennings & Every LLP provides clients with an ‘outstanding patent service’ across the IT, engineering, chemistry, and life sciences industries. This offering includes support with oppositions and appeals, infringement proceedings, and patent applications. Stephen Haley and managing partner Michael Lord jointly lead the practice; Haley frequently acts for international and UK-based companies, as well as academic institutions, in the prosecution of large patent portfolios, while Lord also heads the IT and engineering department, with expertise in computer software and telecommunications. Peter Arrowsmith is notable for his work with new companies, assisting them with developing patent strategies, and Rebecca Matheson is praised as an ’exceptional adviser’ who is ‘extremely skilled in the complex science’.
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Testimonials
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‘Gill Jennings & Every provides an outstanding patent service. They always provide thorough and diligent advice. They review every detail of our products and innovations in order to advise on appropriate patent and design protection, and freedom to operate. They have trained our engineering teams on patent related matters in order to boost innovation and patent protection within the company.'
'They are always available, highly professional, and friendly. We are sure our patents and designs could not be in better hands!’
‘Alistair Holzhauer-Barrie is our design and patent counsel in GJE. He is an exceptional patent counsel and professional. He is very thorough, responsive, diligent and eager to help. He has the required technical knowledge to advise us on all patents and designs matters, and also takes the time to learn and understand our products and innovations. He easily communicates with our legal and technical teams and has proved to be very assertive in his strategies.’
‘GJE has partnered our company from our time as a small start-up, through growing to acquisition and post acquisition with a much bigger entity. The team has a broad knowledge of our niche product and provides great support. The team are very responsive and have never missed a deadline for our portfolio.’
‘Peter Arrowsmith has been with us from the beginning. He has an even hand and calmly goes through the weeds, both with the in-house patent team and with our inventors to best present our filings to the various patent offices. He has brought on other attorneys onto our portfolio and all have had superb inductions onto our portfolio.’
‘The team is well coordinated and has great technical and professional capabilities. It is well aware of how to practically achieve the client's goals. Its services are streamlined but effectively overseen by the senior professional in charge of the client relationship. We have also experienced reasonable flexibility when needed.’
'Good responsiveness and diligent follow up. Graham Spenceley is the senior partner in charge of the client relationship and appears to have good control of our project.'
'Rebecca Matheson is an exceptional adviser. She is extremely skilled in the complex science needed to be able to advise on the matters she is assisting with and the complicated world of patents but at the same time she is able to present these issues in a very straightforward, easy to understand way. She is extremely helpful and exceeds expectations when providing her service.'
Key clients
- Procter & Gamble
- De La Rue
- Xerox
- PARC
- Oracle
- Sosei Heptares
- Heptares Therapeutics Limited
- JT International
- TTP
- Wave Optics
- Snap, Inc.
- ProVenture
- Sarsia
- Ishida
- Daphne Technology SA
- Ancestry.com
- Aston Martin Performance Technologies
Work highlights
- Assisting Procter & Gamble with European opposition, opinion, and appeal work.
- Assisting De La Rue with strategic IP advice to detailed patent drafting and portfolio management.
- Assisting JT International with developing a filing strategy for its IP portfolio and also in relation to a defensive strategy based around the filing of EPO oppositions against the rights of key competitors such as British American Tobacco and Philip Morris International.
Lawyers
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Stephen Haley, Michael Lord