About
Maucher Jenkins has offices in the UK, Germany, Switzerland and China, and represents global clients in a range of industries who wish to identify, establish, protect, exploit and enforce their IP rights in the UK, Europe and worldwide. The firm: The team at Maucher Jenkins helps businesses gain a competitive edge by safeguarding and enhancing their intellectual property rights. The protection of clients’ inventions, innovations and brands is at the heart of the practice. The firm’s reputation extends internationally, as does its expertise. Its clients’ interests span a wide range of industries and technologies including IT and communications, electrical and mechanical engineering, aviation, life sciences and medical technologies, manufacturing, media, financial services and consumer products. The patent team’s expertise includes conducting innovation capture sessions, preliminary investigations and due diligence on securing a patent; drafting, filing and prosecuting patent applications before the UK IPO and European Patent Office; conducting searches to avoid infringement; defending patent infringement claims and pursuing infringement litigation when opposing, reviewing, evaluating and managing patent portfolios; monitoring competitors’ portfolios; and advising on how to obtain patent protection worldwide. The trade mark team advises on the registrability of new brand names and logos, conducts searches to locate any potentially conflicting third-party rights, files and prosecutes trade mark applications and acts on behalf of clients in relation to any disputes. Maucher Jenkins is also well placed to advise on domain name registration, copyright law and protecting against the actions of cyber squatters. The attorneys help with design protection for new and innovative product shapes with an eye to identifying copyright and registrable or unregistered design matters that can strengthen an overall portfolio of rights. They also counsel on effective action against copyright infringement, including seizure and detention of infringing goods. The firm’s litigation practice handles disputes in the English Courts as well as managing multi-jurisdictional cases in Europe and beyond. Its litigators are experienced in a wide range of contentious IP matters including trade marks, passing off, patents, designs, domain names and company names. The firm also handles appeals in registration and contentious matters for UK and European trade marks, patents and designs, including before the High Court and, on a European level, the Unified Patent Court, General Court and Court of Justice. For smaller matters, its litigators represent clients in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC). Maucher Jenkins® is the joint trading name of RGC Jenkins & Co in the UK (regulated by IPReg) and Maucher Jenkins Patentanwälte & Rechtsanwältein Germany. Other offices: Farnham, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Munich, Freiburg, Kulmbach, Basel, Beijing and Shenzhen ### Languages - German - French - Mandarin Chinese - Cantonese - Spanish - Swedish - Japanese - Korean ### Staffing Figures - 10 Number of UK partners - 21 Number of other UK fee-earners
Office locations
London
London
Maucher Jenkins 7th Floor, Artillery House 11-19 Artillery Row London SW1P 1RT
Farnham
Farnham
Maucher Jenkins Broadmede House Farnham Business Park Farnham, Surrey Farnham GU9 8QT South East
Practice areas
Lawyers in this office
Carina Seifert
Carina is an Attorney at Law and joined Maucher Jenkins as an Associate in November 2023 to work in our London and Freiburg offices. · Intellectual Property
Chris Harrison
Chris is an Associate in the Patents team, a Chartered Patent Attorney and a European Patent Attorney. · Patents
Edward Cheng
Edward qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 2024 and is a member of the Patents team based in the London office. Edward is a qualified China patent attorney, with extensive experience of patent prosecution in a leading international patent firm in Taiwan. He has previously worked as an IP analyst in a renowned international IP service company in London. Prior to entering his career in patent law, Edward worked as an engineer for Philips, focusing on medical devices including ultrasound imaging systems and cardiovascular apparatuses. Edward specialises in technical fields including optics, optoelectronics, photoacoustic imaging and Raman spectroscopy, and he also has gained considerable experience in drafting and prosecuting multi-jurisdictional patents across a diverse range of technologies, including electronic and mechanical inventions, semiconductors, lighting and display technology, and physical, virtual & hybrid musical instruments. In addition, he has advised and assisted clients, ranging from SMEs to big-name companies, on a wide variety of patent protection means including patent search, infringement, (in)validity and FTO analyses. · Intellectual Property
Fiona Kellas
Fiona is a Partner in the Patents team, a UK Chartered Patent Attorney and a European Patent Attorney. · Patents
Harry Liu
Harry joined Maucher Jenkins in 2024 after gaining experience at various firms in the UK and Ireland. Harry holds a PhD from the University of Manchester, where he researched the properties of novel bent-core liquid crystals using techniques such as polarising microscopy, SAXS, and RAMAN scattering. With extensive experience in patent matters across industries including telecoms, aerospace, holography, energy, and mechanical devices, Harry has advised clients ranging from individual inventors to large multinational corporations on strategy and patent protection. · Intellectual Property
Holly Whitlock
Holly is a Partner in the Patents team and a Chartered Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney and Registered Representative before the Unified Patent Court. · Intellectual Property
Hugh Dunlop
Hugh is a Partner in the Patents team, a Chartered Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney, Certified IP Litigator, EUIPO Representative, Irish Trade Mark Agent and Registered Representative before the Unified Patent Court. · Patents
James Cross
James is a Partner in the Patents team, a Chartered Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney and Higher Courts Litigator. · Patents
Katie Cameron
Katie is a Partner in the Trade Marks team, a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney and Higher Courts Litigator. · Trade Marks
Lucy Holt
Lucy is an Associate in the Patents team, a Chartered Patent Attorney and a European Patent Attorney. · Patents
Mark Webster
Mark is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Trade Mark and Litigation and Dispute Resolution groups. He is a Solicitor (England and Wales), Solicitor (Ireland) and a Registered European Lawyer (Munich). · Trade Marks
Matthew Yip
Matthew is a Senior Associate in the Patents department, a Chartered Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney and a Registered Representative before the Unified Patent Court. · Intellectual Property
Michael Jaeger
Michael is a Partner in the Patents team, a Chartered Patent Attorney and a European Patent Attorney. · Patents
Nicholas Wright
Nick is an Associate in the Patents team and a European Patent Attorney. · Patents
Phil Treeby
Phil is a Partner in the Patents team and a Chartered Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney, Higher Courts Litigator and Registered Representative before the Unified Patent Court. · Patents
Reuben Jacob
Reuben is a Partner in the Patents team, Chartered Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney. · Patents
Silke Petzold
Silke is a Senior Associate in the Patents department, a Chartered Patent Attorney and a European Patent Attorney. · Intellectual Property
Stephan Seigel
Stefan joined the patent profession in 2017 and specialises in the filing and prosecution of patents related to electric engineering, semiconductors (e.g. 3D integrated circuits, advanced-note integrated circuits in processor and memory fields), software, cleantech and general engineering. Stefan has a breadth of experience in several jurisdictions and can advise on global filing strategies. Some of the jurisdictions in which Stefan has directly worked with include Europe (at the European Patent Office), the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, Korea and China. Stefan previously worked for Maucher Jenkins between 2017 and 2021, before returning in 2024. In his time away from Maucher Jenkins, Stefan worked at two leading IP firms, including a top US-IP firm where he provided international filing advice to a large multinational licensing client. Stefan has extensive ties to the Middle East, having spent the formative years of his life living and integrating in Kuwait. He maintains his ties in the Gulf and Levant Region and is actively working on his Arabic skills. Stefan’s client work spreads from individual inventors and SMEs to large multinational corporations. Stefan enjoys meeting with innovators in all fields and has a keen eye to discover the next best IP including Patents, Trade Marks and Designs. · Patents
Stuart Rowlands
Stuart is a Partner in the patents team, a Chartered Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney. · Intellectual Property
Tanya Buckley
Tanya is a Partner in the Trade Marks team and a UK Chartered Trade Mark Attorney. · Trade Marks
Timothy Young
Tim is a Senior Associate in the Patents department, a Chartered Patent Attorney and a European Patent Attorney. · Intellectual Property