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Mark Ridgway

Global 2026

A&O Shearman

Ranked in 1 practice area

Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation

5 years ranked

About

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Practice Areas

Mark is an intellectual property litigator with over 20 years’ experience, advising on a wide range of cross-border, contentious matters.

Mark has particular expertise in multi-jurisdictional patent disputes, as well as in patent licensing and trade secrets disputes, advising clients primarily from the life sciences, technology and financial services sectors.

Mark has a technical background (BEng (Hons) in Electronic Engineering), allowing him to take on the most complex cases whilst delivering strategic and commercial advice to clients. Mark is ranked as a Leading Individual by Legal 500 (Intellectual Property: Patents), as well as by other major directories. In the area of trade secrets, Mark is a member of the AIPPI Standing Committee on Trade Secrets and chairs the trade secrets sub-committee of a major UK industry association.

Chambers Review

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Chambers Global Guide

Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation - UK

Band 3

Individual Editorial

Mark Ridgway represents clients in a range of complex litigation covering FRAND and standard-essential patents, infringement actions and trade secret cases. He acts for many market-leading technology and life sciences companies.

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Strengths

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Mark Ridgway is really technical - clients love that - and he is a good, strategic litigator; very user-friendly.
Intellectual Property: Patent LitigationChambers Global Guide
Mark Ridgway is a stellar lawyer. He is exceptionally diligent and quite charismatic.
Intellectual Property: Patent LitigationChambers Global Guide