Jerome Spaargaren
UK Guide 2024
Band 1 : Intellectual Property: Patent Attorneys
Band 1
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Jerome is EIP's founder and head of the digital technology group. His unmatched foresight and strategic intuition makes him the ultimate partner for companies seeking to stake their claim in a fiercely competitive market.
Career
2000 — present
Founder, EIP
1995 — 2000
Associate/Partner, RGC Jenkins & Co, London
1992 — 1995
Trainee, Bailey Walsh & Co, Leeds
Work Highlights
Optis v Apple. Technical litigation counsel in relation to validity and infringement of certain standard essential patents (SEPs) in the UK trials in the High Court and the Court of Appeal (patents concerning 3G and LTE technologies).
Unwired Planet. Technical litigation counsel in standard essential patent (SEP) litigation in the UK and Germany against Huawei (patents concerning 3G and LTE technologies), leading up to the landmark UK Supreme Court judgement on FRAND issues. In Unwired Planet vs. Google (District of Nevada), acted for patent owner as global prosecution counsel in relation to post-grant proceedings at the USPTO.
Conversant. Technical litigation counsel in relation to validity and infringement of certain standard essential patents (SEPs) as part of representing Conversant in its successful High Court proceedings against Huawei and ZTE.
Arm. Leading a prosecution team acting for the leading technology provider of processor IP in the field of AI and machine learning processor architectures.
Align Technology v Clearcorrect. Acted for defendant in infringement proceedings in the High Court in the UK and in EPO oppositions, relating to clear orthodontic aligners.
Visto v Research in Motion. Acted for patent owner in international litigation relating to email synchronization technology, resulting in a $267.5 million settlement in favour of patent owner Lead prosecution counsel in heavily contested proceedings resulting in the grant of three key European patents relating to email synchronization technology.
Orange Personal Communications Services. Global lead prosecution counsel 2005-2007. Appeal from Opposition by Swisscom (European Patent Office.) Lead prosecution counsel for patent owner, standard essential patent relating to SIM card technology, resulting in patent being upheld.
British Telecommunications. Prosecution counsel, drafting two patents relating to keyword search technology which have subsequently been litigated (BT v Google)
Hamamatsu Photonics. Appeal from Examination (European Patent Office.) Lead prosecution counsel for patent owner. Now established case law in relation to maintaining auxiliary requests during first instance proceedings.
Nikon. European prosecution counsel for patents relating to various technologies such as camera exposure control and lithography.
Koninklijke Philips. Prosecution counsel for patents relating to optical discs and medical technologies.
Education
Queen Mary, University
Post-Graduate Certificate in Intellectual Property Law
1993 - 1994
Oxford University
MA Physics
1988 - 1991