Andrew Somerville
Founding Owner at Somerville Associates
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Somerville is a British and European Patent Attorney, UPC representative, and founding owner of Somerville Associates with 11 years' post-qualification experience and nearly one hundred EPO opposition and appeal hearings. He specialises in electromechanical and computer-implemented inventions—notably medical devices, turbochargers, gas turbines and 3GPP/LTE standards-essential patents—representing predominantly US and Japanese corporate clients. Andrew blends deep technical roots from an M.Eng. at Cambridge and sponsored research at QinetiQ with courtroom-honed litigation skills, earning a reputation for tenacity and effectiveness at the EPO. He also develops patent-mining software using the EPO OPS API to deliver actionable landscaping and competitor-monitoring insights, reflecting a hands-on approach to technical and strategic IP work. Outside practice he is an IMechE Whitworth Scholar who enjoys politics, whisky and long walks with his dog.
11 years of coding experience
Engineering M.A. (Hons) MEng, ENGINEERING, Engineering M.A. (Hons) MEng, ENGINEERING at University of CambridgeCertificate in Intellectual Property Law, Certificate in Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary, U. of London
German, Dutch
Github Skills (2)
cas2
aircraft2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
toadball/CRAB_Missions
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:36 PRs, 93 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
itc-addons/ITC_Land_Systems_RHSAFRF
May 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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