Matthew entered the patent profession in 2003, qualifying as a
UK Patent Attorney in 2008, as a European Patent Attorney in 2008,
and as a Patent Attorney Litigator in 2014. He joined
Haseltine Lake in 2018 after a period of almost 7 years as a
partner at another firm.
Matthew specialises in the fields of electronics,
telecommunications and computing, and has undertaken work on behalf
of a variety of major international companies operating in these
fields, as well as SMEs and major universities. He has a keen
interest in assisting start-ups in developing effective IP
strategies.
Matthew has drafted and prosecuted applications for electronics
and telecommunications technologies such as receiver architectures,
amplifiers, antennae, channel estimation schemes, error correction
schemes, signal location and identification, power management
schemes, interference cancellation, positioning systems, WiFi,
Bluetooth, RFID and NFC.
His computing experience encompasses topics such as software
defined networking, user interfaces, video processing, operating
systems, hardware acceleration, memory systems, power management
for processor systems, client/server systems and synchronisation
protocols.
In addition to these technologies, Matthew has handled patents
for inventions in a wide range of other fields including cash
protection systems, vehicle suspension systems and driver
impairment detection systems.
He has extensive experience of hearings before the Examining
Divisions, Opposition Divisions and Boards of Appeal of the
European Patent Office.
As well as his patent drafting and prosecution work, Matthew has
also handled contentious issues, helping clients to achieve
positive results in a number of IP related disputes.
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