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Tim Whitfield

Partner advising on contentious IP matters, with a focus on patent litigation across a wide range of technical areas, including pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, medical devices, consumer and engineering products, industrial processes, electronics and telecommunications. Represents clients in cases before the English courts and the European Patent Office. Has experience of IP related damages claims, licensing disputes and IP-related arbitrations, and has particular expertise in advising clients on the coordination of international patent litigation strategy and managing multi-jurisdictional disputes. · Powell Gilbert LLP

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Partner at Powell Gilbert LLP specialising in contentious intellectual property matters, with a focus on patent litigation across pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, consumer and engineering products, industrial processes, electronics and telecommunications. Represents clients before the English courts and the European Patent Office and has experience in IP damages claims, licensing disputes and IP-related arbitration, with particular expertise coordinating international and multi-jurisdictional patent litigation.

Practice areas

Intellectual PropertyPatent LitigationLitigationIP LicensingArbitrationCross-Border / Multi-Jurisdictional Litigation

Office

England

Powell Gilbert LLP · Partner advising on contentious IP matters, with a focus on patent litigation across a wide range of technical areas, including pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, medical devices, consumer and engineering products, industrial processes, electronics and telecommunications. Represents clients in cases before the English courts and the European Patent Office. Has experience of IP related damages claims, licensing disputes and IP-related arbitrations, and has particular expertise in advising clients on the coordination of international patent litigation strategy and managing multi-jurisdictional disputes.

England

Expertise

Pharmaceuticals & BiotechnologyMedical DevicesConsumer & Engineering ProductsIndustrial ProcessesElectronics & TelecommunicationsIP DamagesIP LicensingInternational / Multi-Jurisdictional Patent Litigation

Education

  • Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe
  • Trinity College, Oxford (MChem Chemistry)
  • College of Law, Guildford (PgDL; LPC)
  • Bristol University (Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice)

Admissions

  • Qualified Solicitor (England & Wales), 2004
  • Solicitor-Advocate, 2014
  • Solicitor (Ireland), 2022
  • UPC Representative, 2023