Rick Gordon-Brown

With keen interests in transport and environmentally friendly innovations, Rick enjoys maximising the value of his clients’ intellectual property to help them secure investments, achieve their business goals and deliver a more sustainable future.

Recognised personally in various well-respected league tables, Rick leads our mechanical and heavy engineering practice group, EIP Dynamics, which has been ranked Gold every year since the Financial Times’ list of “Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms” began. He has extensive private practice experience advising on patent and registered design matters for clients from startups to multinationals, and in-house experience from secondment roles involving due diligence work in investment rounds, capturing innovations and assessing whether to protect them with patents, registered designs or trade secrets, and keeping abreast of technical and commercial developments to inform our wider teams’ work for the relevant clients. This combination enables him to provide commercially focussed, pragmatic advice, and he has been invited by the UK’s Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) to speak about his work in podcast and video episodes.

Since entering the patent profession in 2004, Rick has developed considerable expertise in invention harvesting and patent drafting. He has written 100s of patent applications relating to mechanical, electromechanical and manufacturing technologies for clients in industries such as aerospace, marine, transport & logistics, consumer electronics, FMCG, packaging, printing, medical devices and electromagnetic energy harvesters. He is also adept at efficiently managing prosecution of multijurisdictional patent families, and has done so in these technology areas as well as automotive, micromobility, sustainable fuel systems, railway infrastructure, and snack food manufacture. He also advises on patent infringement & validity and freedom-to-operate matters.

Rick is also part of the EIP Designs group, which has prepared, filed and prosecuted design applications for various physical products, GUIs, logos and room interiors. In 2015, he was invited to contribute, on an ongoing basis, to the CITMA & CIPA Community Designs Handbook, which is a valuable reference for IP attorneys.