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Matthew Gillard BA, CPA, EPA

Partner

Higher Education

Matthew has a BA in Physics from Oxford University.

Career to date

Matthew joined our Bristol office in 1998 following three years as a Patent Examiner at the UK Patent Office. He became a partner in 2005 and is based at our Bristol office. Matthew leads our telecommunications group.

Personal skills

During his time as an Examiner, Matthew developed a thorough understanding of the European approach to business method and software inventions through examining many applications in this contentious area. Matthew’s degree provided him with an excellent springboard for handling the most technically and mathematically complex of cases.

Sector experience

Whilst Matthew’s work covers a broad range of electronics, he has a particular focus on telecommunications and computing.

In the telecommunications field, Matthew has in depth experience in Layer 1 topics such as rake receivers, turbo encoders and decoders, reduced state Viterbi equalizers, channel estimation techniques, interleavers, Bluetooth®, HSPA and OFDM. Moving beyond Layer 1, Matthew has also covered power amplifier linearisation, mixer design, spectrum analyzers, test signal generators, and AGC loops.

In the computing area, Matthew has extensive experience of hardware (e.g. cache memories, pipelined processors, bus architectures, parallel processing arrays) and software (e.g. operating systems, application software, software updating, user interfaces).

Client experience

Matthew’s clients include world-leading companies in the telecommunications, electronics and computing sectors and several leading UK universities.

Notable successes

Matthew has succeeded in obtaining broad patent protection for highly mathematical, algorithmic inventions relating to baseband processing on behalf of a range of clients. In one particular hearing, Matthew’s thorough grasp of the mathematical technology at issue enabled him to eliminate objections to the grant of a patent through the unusual step of arguing that an alleged earlier design was inoperative (i.e. by arguing insufficiency).

On a personal note...

Matthew enjoys spending time with his young family. When time allows, Matthew also likes to indulge in running, badminton, travel, history and following the fortunes of the Welsh rugby team.