Mike Jennings Email & Phone Number

Mike is a Partner at leading IP specialists AA Thornton IP LLP - in their Legal 500 top tier patent practice. He is a highly rated and very experienced European & UK patent attorney handling computer-implemented and physics-related inventions, and a Representative before the Unified Patent Court. Vast experience of EPO oppositions as well as prosecution and strategic IP advice for a wide range of clients and technologies. Very high success rate in EPO appeals. Worked in-house for IBM on patent protection and licensing for several years before joining AA Thornton. Works closely with EPO management as invited member of quality working group within SACEPO (Standing Advisory Committee before the EPO 2017-2023). Vice Chair of CIPA Computer Technology Committee. Member of AIPPI IT & Internet Committee and IP Owners Association's AI & New Emerging Tech Committee and Software Committee. Accolades include:WIPR Leader 2023IAM Strategy 300 Global Leader 2023IAM Patent 1000 - The World's Leading Patent Professionals 2022 and 2023:“Mike is top-class in terms of his knowledge, skills and expertise. He is highly regarded as an AI expert and provides creative solutions” and a “strategic thinker”.MIP: Awarded "IP Star" 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023IAM Strategy 300 quote: “Mike Jennings is a “brilliant patent prosecutor and advocate for his clients” and a “thought-leader in the development of the law around subject matter eligibility for AI and computer-implemented inventions”.”Legal500 quotes: “Mike Jennings is ‘able to solve even the most complex problems with ease’.”"AA Thornton maintains its position among the elite patent practices in the nation, largely based on its frequent successful representation of individuals, academic institutions, SMEs and multinational corporations.""Mike Jennings has the benefit of both a very creative approach to legal problem solving and an engagement in the patent community generally and with the EPO and UKIPO, which gives him the ability to understand and even help guide the offices towards appropriate solutions to their challenges while also giving his clients access to insights into the current law and its potential and likely developments"

Listed skills include Patent Prosecution, Patents, Intellectual Property, Invention, and 12 others.