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About Michael Washbrook
Mike is a partner in Taylor Wessing’s UK IP team specialising in patent and trade secrets litigation. He has acted in some of the largest high-tech patents cases in the UK courts and the UPC across a variety of technologies including telecommunications, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and agrochemicals.
Mike has extensive experience of coordinating complex patent litigation across multiple jurisdictions. He has particular expertise in SEP and FRAND disputes, and provides strategic advice on navigating the different enforcement regimes of the European national courts and the UPC for SEPs. Mike is also one of the very few lawyers with experience of taking a global FRAND rate setting dispute all the way to a trial in the in the UK courts.
Example recent cases include: Mitsubishi and Sisvel v OnePlus and others (SEPs / FRAND), Pfizer v uniQure (gene therapy), Celgard v Shenzhen Senior Technologies (trade secrets, battery technology), Abbott Laboratories v Dexcom (medical devices) and InterDigital v OPPO (SEPs / FRAND).
Michael Washbrook
Taylor Wessing
Hill House, 1 Little New Street
EC4A 3TR London
United Kingdom
+44 207 300 4274
m.washbrook@taylorwessing.com
8 Specialisms
- Automation & Robotics
- Chemistry
- Digital Communication
- Electronics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Medical Devices
- Mobile Communication
- Pharmaceuticals
Awards
- Recommended Lawyer UK - JUVE Patent 2024
- One to Watch in Litigation - JUVE Patent 2023
- Patent Star - IP Stars 2024
- Next Generation Partner: Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious) - Legal 500 2025
Publications
- Contribution to: A Practitioner's Guide to European Patent Law, for National Practice and the Unified Patent Court – Bloomsbury Publishing – Septemebr 2022 - Paul England
