Litigation

Robert Burrows Partner

Robert specialises in patent litigation. He has a PhD in molecular genetics and is particularly active for life science companies. Many of the patent and SPC cases he has managed in recent years have required the coordination of parallel proceedings in the UK, EPO and other jurisdictions within Europe and elsewhere in the world.

Alex Calver Associate

Alex is an associate in the patent litigation team. He works on cases in the life sciences and technology sectors.

Katie Cambrook Senior Associate

Katie works in patent and trade mark infringement matters. She also has experience of copyright matters.

Rachael Cartwright Associate

Rachael is an associate in IP litigation and works with clients in the pharmaceutical and technology sectors.

Adrian Chew Senior Associate

Adrian specialises in patent disputes, particularly in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors.

Liz Cohen Partner

Liz is a highly experienced and well regarded IP specialist with a focus on counselling clients in the life sciences sector on national and international patent strategy and litigation. She jointly heads up the firm’s life sciences practice and is one of the firm’s Joint Managing Partners.

Brian Cordery Partner

Brian is the Joint Head of Patent Litigation. His practice concentrates on the resolution of patent disputes in the life sciences sector. This involves representing clients before the English Patents Courts at all levels and the coordination of multi-national disputes. In 2018 Brian was named Life Sciences Patent Litigation Lawyer of the Year and Patents Lawyer of the Year by Who’s Who Legal.

Amy Cullen Associate

Amy is a litigation associate focusing particularly on patent litigation. She has experience of complex multi-jurisdictional patent litigation in the pharmaceutical, telecoms and consumer product sectors.

Chloe Dickson Associate

Chloe has acted in intellectual property disputes before the English courts, including the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court. Chloe also works on the coordination of international patent disputes and has experience in the enforcement of Community Plant Variety Rights.

Lucie Fortune Associate

Lucie is an intellectual property lawyer who specialises in intellectual property litigation. Her practice encompasses the full range of IP rights, including trade marks, designs, copyright and patents. Lucie is experienced in handling both domestic and global disputes, including the strategic coordination of proceedings across the UK, the EU and worldwide.

Charlie French Senior Associate

Charlie is an experienced patent litigator with a particular focus on the life sciences and biotechnology sectors. She represents clients before the English courts and also coordinates complex global patent litigation and life-cycle management strategies.

Tim Heaps Associate

Tim's experience covers both contentious and non-contentious matters, with a focus on trade mark and copyright disputes, patents, confidential information and advertising advisory work.

Thomas Hendicott Associate

Thomas works in the IP litigation department. Whilst he primarily advises on patent matters, he also has experience working on technical arbitrations.

Olivia Henry Associate

Olivia is an associate in the IP litigation department.

Emma Irwin Associate

Emma qualified into the patent litigation team in September 2018, after having completed her training contract at Bristows.

Myles Jelf Partner

Myles is joint head of patent litigation. While his practice covers the full range of intellectual property rights it has focused in recent years upon high-tech patent litigation for multinational companies.

Alan Johnson Partner

Alan is a specialist in patent matters (litigation and freedom to operate) with more than 35 years’ experience across a broad range of industries from pharmaceuticals to telecoms.

Luke Maunder Senior Associate

Luke specialises in intellectual property disputes in the technology sector. He has degrees in both computer science and law. His experience spans all levels of the Court system, as well as a variety of interim applications. He also frequently advises on jurisdiction disputes, particularly in FRAND litigation.

Elizabeth McAuliffe Associate

Elizabeth specialises in contentious intellectual property matters, with a particular interest in patent litigation.

Sarah McFarlane Associate

Sarah is an associate in the patent litigation team with a particular interest in the life sciences sector. She has experience of UK patent litigation as well as international litigation, co-ordinating multijurisdictional patent disputes.

Annsley Merelle Ward Senior Associate

An experienced, tenacious and strategic IP litigator, Annsley specializes in complex global life sciences and TMT disputes.

Nicholas Michelmore Associate

Nick is an associate in the patent litigation team. He works across a variety of sectors but has a particular interest in the life sciences field.

Ben Millson Associate

Ben joined Bristows as a trainee solicitor in 2015, before qualifying into the IP litigation team in 2017, where he specialises in patent disputes.

Rachel Mumby Senior Associate

Rachel advises on patent litigation matters across a broad range of subject matters, but with a particular interest in the chemical and life sciences sectors.

Edward Nodder Partner

Senior Partner from 2016-2018 and until 2016, the long-serving head of patent litigation. Hugely experienced, he has been responsible for more than 100 patent cases, including landmark decisions concerning validity, infringement, cross border injunctions, damages, stays pending EPO, entitlement to priority, patent amendment and cross undertakings in damages.

Kate O'Sullivan Associate

Kate joined Bristows as a trainee in 2016 and qualified as an associate in the IP litigation department in 2018.

Claire Phipps-Jones Senior Associate

Claire is a senior associate specialising primarily in patent litigation in the life sciences sector. Her biochemistry background provides an excellent basis for the technical aspects of such disputes. She has experience in both UK litigation and in the coordination of cross-border disputes.

Richard Pinckney Partner

Richard is a partner and solicitor advocate with an engineering background. He specialises in IP disputes with a focus on patent litigation and the technology sector.

Edward Pullicino Technical Advisor

Edward is a technical advisor, advising and assisting in forming opinions on technical aspects of litigation and provides in-house technical sessions on both general and specific technical queries.

Matthew Raynor Senior Associate

Matthew specialises in intellectual property litigation with a particular focus on patent litigation in the technology sector.

Manuel Rey Trainee Solicitor

Manuel is currently working in the commercial IP/IT team as a trainee solicitor. Prior to becoming a trainee solicitor as of August 2019, Manuel worked as a Professional Support Lawyer in our IP litigation department.

Vanessa Rieu Senior Associate

Vanessa is an experienced litigator specialised in all areas of intellectual property. Due to her international background, her practice concentrates primarily on complex and cross-border patent litigation within Europe and beyond.

Katie Rooth Senior Associate

Katie advises on a wide range of contentious intellectual property matters with a focus on patent litigation.

Nicholas Round Associate

Nicholas has experience working with a broad range of technical subject matters including mobile telecommunications and broadcast technology, magnetic resonance medical devices and the use of electromagnetic signals as an indicator for the presence of oil or gas.

Joseph Sako Associate

Rowena Stent Professional Support Lawyer

Rowena is a Professional Support Lawyer in Patent Litigation.

Aida Tohala Associate

Aida has experience of litigating patents for pharmaceutical products before the English Courts, as well as experience of coordinating patent litigation in other jurisdictions in the context of global life cycle management.

Pat Treacy Partner

Pat is an experienced, effective and pragmatic competition lawyer with decades of experience of litigation, transactions and competition investigations. She is renowned for her understanding of the competition issues that affect IP rich sectors.

Emma Trott Associate

Emma is an associate in the patent litigation team. Her practice focuses on pharmaceutical patent litigation. Emma has completed two six month client secondments to the patent litigation teams of two global pharmaceutical companies, one innovator and one generic.

Claire Wilson Senior Associate

Claire specialises in intellectual property with a particular emphasis on patent litigation in the life sciences sector. Claire’s background in chemistry gives her a valuable understanding of the technical issues that can underlie intellectual property matters and enables her to provide clear intelligible advice.