Rachael has experience working on a broad range of technical subject matters. She has significant experience in the telecommunications sector, working on cases such as Unwired Planet v Huawei, Samsung and Google, Conversant v Huawei and ZTE, IPCom v Vodafone, Philips v Oppo and Panasonic v Xiaomi and Oppo.

Rachael has also worked on cases and matters relating to the use of electromagnetic radiation in locating sub oceanic oil reserves, the use of MRI and Radiotherapy machines for cancer treatment, ships for transporting cement powder, automated warehousing solutions, the optical properties of diamond, wind turbine technology and wellbore tortuosity classification.

Rachael’s work highlights include:

• Acting for ZTE on the technical aspects of its multi-jurisdictional patents dispute against Conversant.
• Acting for Siemens Gamesa in its patent dispute concerning wind turbine technology against GE.
• Advising an automated warehousing company in relation to its European Patent portfolio.
• Acting for a medical devices company in its multi-jurisdictional patent dispute against a key competitor.
• Acting for Philips in its patent dispute against Oppo.
• Acting for a wellbore surveying company in patent litigation concerning wellbore surveying technology.
• Part of the team assisting Panasonic in its SEP/FRAND dispute against Xiaomi and Oppo.

As a trainee, Rachael was seconded to an international specialist healthcare company where she worked with the in-house legal team assisting on a wide range of commercial, intellectual property and data protection matters.

Rachael is a member of AIPPI and IPSoc and writes for the Kluwer and EPLAW Patent Blog.