Christopher Hartland

Potter Clarkson - Sweden

Senior Associate

Riddargatan 10
Stockholm 114 35
Sweden

+46850534552

Rising star 2023


Jurisdictions:

Sweden

Practice areas:

Patent litigation
Patent prosecution
Patent strategy & counseling

Industry sectors:

Artificial intelligence
Computer technology & services
Electronics
Medical devices
Semiconductors


Christopher is an experienced European and Chartered UK patent attorney with a research background in experimental condensed matter physics and magnetic resonance.

Christopher specialises in constructing commercially focussed IP strategies for companies with a specialism in helping start-up and scale-up businesses. He achieves this by getting to know each company he works with, understanding their commercial goals, standing IP and future plans and proposing tactics to maximise outputs for each desired outcome. Christopher is able to draw on his experience in IP litigation matters to assist in predicting potential hurdles and, when necessary, assisting with patent enforcement or defence against enforcement actions. All of this is achieved with a client-friendly, no-nonsense approach.

His experience from his time in a lab as a researcher and his broad range of clients as a patent attorney allow him to support companies across a wide variety of technical areas. Christopher regularly works with businesses in the fields of MedTech; HealthTech; CleanTech; electronic circuit component and circuit design; autonomous vehicles; advanced materials; and quantum physics. In particular, his experience in the challenging arena of protecting software and AI innovations allows Christopher to assist companies working on digital innovations and those that are working on the digitisation of more traditional fields.

Year Joined Firm: 2014

Education/Alumni:

  • Masters of Physics degree (MPhys) from The University of Warwick
  • PhD in Physics from The University of Warwick