Services

Our services are centred around intellectual property that can be registered. We protect innovation, design, and branding across all sectors of industry, and at all stages in the supply chain.

For each IP right we offer services covering strategic advice, pre-registration searches, registrations and renewals, oppositions and dispute resolution. We handle work throughout the world, working with local colleagues in over 100 countries.

Services

Sectors

Our attorneys specialise in one or more sectors of industry, which enables them to provide quality advice with a commercial focus.

Our patent specialists have detailed understanding of the background technology, which ensures that your patent applications are prepared with the correct scope, reducing the likelihood of challenges from third parties and objections from the patent office.

They also advise whether other forms of protection would be more appropriate. Our brand specialists work with brand managers for leading brands and their advice is commercially focussed making sure that you get the best value from your budget.

Sectors

Robert Sackin

Partner

Contact

Cambridge Office

Call+44 (0)1223 360 350

Email robert.sackin@reddie.co.uk

Robert Sackin advises on a broad range of patent issues with a particular focus on computer-implemented inventions.

Robert had 20 years’ experience in patenting inventions for his clients in a wide range of technologies reflecting his background in engineering and physics.

One focus of his practice is on drafting and prosecuting patent applications related to computer implemented inventions including electronic trading systems used by the world’s largest banks, consumer electronics, set-top box technology, telecommunication systems, Internet of Things and artificial intelligence. Currently, digital healthcare is a particular focus often working with colleagues in our life sciences team reflecting the strong cross-disciplinary nature of this exciting and expanding sector.

Another focus has been in technologies with both a mechanical and electrical or electronic aspect including various fields of wind turbine technology, lasers, medical devices, various aspects of smart phone technology including displays and actuators, data centre construction and antennas for mobile telecommunication networks, as well as purely mechanical technology such as car park design and vehicle suspension systems.

Robert has extensive experience of the US patent system reflecting the importance of the US as a marketplace for many of his clients and the broad range of inventions that can be protected there.

Robert has directly advised clients of all sizes on a broad range of patent issues. He has advised on the initial steps in filing patent applications for individual inventors and small companies, as well as drafting and prosecuting patent applications and preparing freedom-to-operate reports for large multi nationals with large, worldwide patent portfolios. Robert regularly represents clients in European Patent Office opposition and appeal procedures. Robert also advises overseas patent attorneys, mainly in the US and China, in particular on the subtleties of patenting computer-implemented inventions at the European Patent Office and in the UK.

His commercial experience includes several months spent working for Nippon Steel in Japan.