Dr Justin Hill

About Me

IAM 300 lists Justin as a World Leading IP Strategist.

Legal 500 said: “Justin Hill is ‘extremely impressive’, ‘one of the pre-eminent patent prosecution attorneys in the EU, with a phenomenal grasp of even the most complex and obscure patent issues’.”

Chambers Legal Directory recognises Justin in an elite group of Band 1 Individuals and as a Leader in the Field Intellectual Property.

His practice focuses on a broad range of IP matters, covering the filing, management, exploitation (licensing) and enforcement of IP rights including patents, designs, trade marks and trade secrets. 

These activities are conducted before national and international patent offices as well as the English Courts. Justin and his team are known as patent opposition specialists and are regularly engaged on behalf of patent holders and opponents in opposition and appeal proceeding at the European Patent Office.

Justin has a first class hons degree and a Ph.D. from Imperial College. Justin is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute Patent Attorneys, a Member of the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office, and serves on the CIPA advisory Committee for Computer Technologies, as well as his firm’s Life Sciences Steering Committee.

• Patent, design and trade mark applications in any technology
• Opposition and appeal proceedings before the EPO
• IP portfolio management for ROI
• IP commercialisation
• IP risk management
• IP disputes and litigation (including dealing with license assertions)
• IP policy and IP planning
• Domestic and international licensing programs
• Competitive Intelligence and positioning among peers
• New ventures and collaborations
• Innovation management and harvesting
• Anti-trust / competition issues in IP
• IP based securitization
• IP asset sales and divestments / spin offs
• IP services for investors (including due diligence, valuations)