2025
"Top-notch legal advice."
"Very responsive, thoughtful, and exact."
"Friendly team giving sound legal advice with a commercial slant. Good tactical approach to litigation."
"Quite simply J A Kemp is outstanding."
"They always take the time to explain our options clearly for someone who is not legally trained with clear recommendations. They are patient and are very much part of our team."
"We have worked with J A Kemp for many years and trust their advice."
"They excel in their work, and the team is very knowledgeable. We also have a very good working relationship with our main contact, Aaron Newell."
"J A Kemp provides exceptional service and analysis. They are timely and thoughtful, and we can rely on them."
"The J A Kemp team is responsive, thoughtful, and trustworthy. [They] provide very high-quality advice."
"We can very comfortably rely upon them in all matters they handle."
"[They are] pragmatic and straightforward in their communication. Very responsive and helpful in working with us."
"Communication is quick and clear. Quality of work has always been high."
"The team always reply to emails on the same day and are always happy to jump on a call to discuss queries in further detail. The team make thorough notes during meetings and are always timely with deadline reminders."
"Extremely engaged and responsive. [They] provide very rapid responses to questions and have broad experience working at the early stage we are at. [They] provide excellent summaries and actions or next steps around patent reports and work in a highly organised and efficient way with us."
"J A Kemp provides excellent client relation management services, always quick to reply to emails and enquiries. [They are] always supportive, clear in communication and excellent with the academics in the university."
"They employ first-rate patent agents who develop a deep understanding of our business and products and provide us with authoritative advice on which we feel comfortable making business decisions."
"They are very flexible in providing timely input, especially when there is a need for urgent advice or action."
"Their IP maintenance and cost forecasting are reliable and economical."
"They are always responsive, meet the deadlines without stress, and are visible to the client."
"J A Kemp provides sensible advice at reasonable rates."
"The team is incredibly knowledgeable, both on the law and technology related to our sector."
"We have complete trust in the team to provide timely and high-quality advice that solves our problems in a commercially sensitive way."
"A highly experienced team in EPO proceedings with excellent knowledge of case law. They consistently provide pragmatic, well-balanced recommendations and practical advice, which is highly appreciated."
"J A Kemp has consistently provided highly competent representation in both prosecuting patent applications and litigating patents in the UK and EU."
"Very diligent, approachable, and open about risks and opportunities."
"They are a one-stop shop for IP protection. [They are] very good at collaboration in writing the patents, where our inputs are translated into patent formulations and eventually filed, and then realised."
"We value J A Kemp's thoroughness and timeliness of their interactions with us, right from scoping new inventions to reporting office actions and deadlines."
"They are thoughtful, detail-orientated, service-minded, and delightful to interact with."
"JA Kemp are very collaborative, provide sound advice and have a great understanding of our patent portfolio."
"The service we have received from J A Kemp has been consistently excellent over many years. As a company whose value is dependent on its IP, we feel the service we have received has been validated by many rounds of external enquiry. IP has never been an issue for our company, and our principal contact has always been available to support external diligence at a very high level."
"Direct and succinct advice, yet backed by detailed knowledge of patenting and the technical fields we work in."
"[They provide] creative and well-considered advice."
"We have had outstanding service from every member of the JA Kemp team with whom we've worked."
"They provide timely and well-thought-out advice and have helped us achieve client objectives for several years."
Tom Leanse
"Tom Leanse has secured multiple successful outcomes for pivotal patents for pharmaceutical combinations, which would not have been possible without his leadership."
"Expertise in legal and technical areas and great customer service."
"They are very responsive and organised. They give us clear direction, advice and strategies we can follow. They are a pleasure to work with."
Martin Jackson and Felix Laing
"Martin Jackson and Felix Laing were great to deal with, very professional, and gave some sound advice in key areas."
Vicki Allen
"We have several patent portfolios in Europe related to important biologics products, and Vicki has been instrumental in getting our patent granted in Europe. She not only has expertise in molecular biology and immunology but also is great at strategic management of complex patent portfolios."
Ian MacLeod
"I enjoy working with Ian MacLeod. Ian is very pragmatic and proactive when it comes to suggesting solutions to complex problems and always does it with the client's objectives in mind. I also appreciate his ability to disagree with my opinions, as I find that some attorneys tend to try and please the client at the expense of not doing what is best for the case in question."
"I particularly enjoy working with Ian MacLeod. Ian is very knowledgeable and very pragmatic. He will perform tasks in a very precise and cost-effective way and also serves as a sounding board for the in-house team in a very professional yet personable way."
"Ian is thoughtful and listens well, taking into account the range of IP-related experience in our team."
"When Ian gives an opinion, our experience is that his predictions have turned out to be correct."
Aaron Newell
"Aaron Newell and his team have consistently helped us achieve objectives and provide thoughtful advice."
Guy Brain
"Guy Brain is first class, and I could not ask more from him in terms of his input into our IP strategy and execution.
Ravi Srinivasan and Guy Brain
"We have been extremely successful in developing our IP portfolio, which has added significant value to my company. This is almost entirely due to Guy and also Ravi Srinivasan."
2023
"They are very creative and conscientious."
"The team frequently acts in high-profile matters and goes straight to the core of the matter and provides clear and concise advice. The team has deep understanding of the client’s business."
"Top-quality people. James Fish is exceptional. Always helpful, timely and saves us wasting a lot of time and money."
"J A Kemp is very responsive and I really like that when they get me a draft of a brief or some other submission I know it is going to be great work product in near-final form and I am not going to have to make a lot of changes to it."
"They provide great experience in supporting technology transfer, such as working with academics who may be experts in their field but unfamiliar with patents and IP."
"We appreciate their personal approach. They are experts – efficient, honest and trustworthy, and they provide training on new developments in IP."
"They are experts and provide good-quality advice. They also provide extra training about the patenting process via webinars. They are a well-organised firm, helping to make the process smooth."
"They are friendly and efficient with prompt professional responses."
"Their professionals are just the right combination of brilliant, attentive and friendly."
"They are exceptionally thoughtful and resourceful in their approach to handling difficult patent prosecution issues."
"We appreciate their frank and valuable advice."
"The J A Kemp team is very strategic and thinks through the best possible position for its client. When challenged by the client, J A Kemp keenly listens to the issues and alleviates such concerns, all while maintaining the end goal in mind and ensuring the client is comfortable with the position."
2022
"The firm and their practitioners are very experienced in working with academic inventors, something that is crucial in the technology transfer environment."
"Thoroughly professional and excellent when engaging with inventors."
"High-quality work and responsive. Excellent experience."
"I have worked with Kemp since I joined my company as CEO and they are simply outstanding."
"They always take the time to explain things to me clearly and make recommendations that allow me to make the best decision possible."
"They have very experienced patent attorneys who are technically strong with a solid legal background."
"Proactive, reliable and very approachable."
"They are very responsive and strategic."
"The team has so much experience and fantastic understanding of pharmaceuticals and is effortlessly excellent in giving very valuable advice with a real eye for details."
"They have outstanding ability to digest complex legal issues and resolve them. Always available when they are needed and dedicated to the client and the case."
"We chose J A Kemp because it was the best to handle the subject-matter and articulate the rationale for maintaining the patent. Creative thinking around patent strategy."
"Excellent firm with highly-skilled individuals."
"A professional, friendly and client-focused team."
"Responsive, accurate, effective and good communication in explaining patent strategy to scientific managers like me."
"They are thorough, timely and strategic."
"They were very competent in handling our cases."
"The attorneys are very skilled and experienced and therefore able to balance all aspects of complicated oppositions, including the oral proceedings with multiple parties."
"We have a history of good collaboration with several employees in the firm and they produce excellent work products."
