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Mathys &
Squire LLP
Mathys & Squire is one of Europe’s most established and renowned specialist IP firms. Founded in 1910, we are proud
to have over 100 years of experience in the protection and commercialization of Intellectual Property rights, leading
the field with our insight, innovation and quality. Operating from four UK offices, in London, Cambridge, Manchester
and York, and our new offices in Paris and Munich, we are a full service IP firm with specialist attorneys in a wide
range of technical fields including biotechnology, pharmacology, electronics, engineering, software, chemistry, IT and
communications. Our Litigation team represents clients before both the specialist and higher courts in the UK, and also
has one of the leading opposition practices before the European Patent Office and UK Trade Mark Registry and EUIPO.
We act for large UK and multinational clients, as well as smaller start-ups and University spin-outs and technology
transfer organizations. Either directly or through our international network, we act for household names such as Cisco,
eBay, Genzyme, AbbVie, BBC, BP, Chelsea F.C,Marshall Amplification, Harley-Davidson, Kenwood, Astra Zeneca and NEC.
Mathys & Squire created our dedicated Israel team in 2011. Headed up by Dani Kramer, a Partner in our London office,
our Israel teamhas an excellent reputation of representing Israeli companies, individuals and attorneys in their European
patent, trade mark and registered design work. Through associate law firms, we handle the European patent work for
a number of Israeli clients across a range of technologies. Our clients also benefit from our close relationships with
U.S. firms. Our hands-on experience enables us to fully understand the operations, culture and challenges in the Israeli
market. We combine technical expertise, local knowledge and commercial focus to deliver results for our clients and
have helped many Israeli firms to penetrate the European market by focusing on effective strategic advice.
Mathys & Squire has also assembled a cross-disciplinary Brexit team to assist our clients in navigating the IP
complexities that may arise in the lead up to, and after, Brexit.
Dani heads up our specialist Israel practice after spending years working with Israeli clients and law firms.
Dani has an honors degree and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand in
Johannesburg. His undergraduate degree covered a wide range of subjects, from software, microprocessors and signal
processing to power systems, electrical machines and control systems. During his postgraduate degree, his research
focused on the use of artificial intelligence techniques for the analysis of digitized medical images. He is a European Patent
Attorney and a Chartered UK Patent Attorney, and holds a Certificate in Intellectual Property from the University of London.
Dani is also a European Design Attorney and handles hundreds of registered design cases in Europe and internationally.
Dani works for a number of large corporations, drafting and prosecuting patent applications, and managing their
international patent portfolios, and also works with dozens of start-ups, providing them with commercially relevant,
strategic advice. His focus is on the fields of internet television, software, electrical and electronic engineering,
information technology, microprocessors, semiconductor devices and communication technologies. In addition, Dani
works on cases relating tomechanical and structural engineering, electrical machines, fuel cells and other environmental
technologies, as well as business process inventions.
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