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Tom Foster

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Tom advises clients on their international strategy for business critical patent and trade secret matters.

Tom has a mathematics background and has technical expertise in 3G, 4G, 5G, broadband, HEVC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other technologies, and has represented clients in many of the leading cases involving SEP and FRAND matters. Tom also advises clients in the healthcare industry, including at the intersect of healthcare and digital technologies. Tom advises on trade secret strategies and litigated the first case in the UK courts under the Trade Secrets Directive.

Tom is recognised by long-standing clients as "an excellent attorney and litigator and a very valuable member of our team" and as "demonstrating an excellent command of detail and also the ability to digest and present that complicated technical detail in an easy to understand manner for the court or senior management".

Tom is co-author of the chapter on UK patent law in Patent Enforcement in the UK and Trans-Pacific Countries. He is a member of a number of initiatives in the legal community, including Oxfam's Lawyers Against Poverty project, IP Inclusive and Taylor Wessing's Wellbeing network.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Patents & innovation
Disputes & investigations
Information technology
Telecommunications
Tech Litigation

Sectors

Life sciences & healthcare
Technology, media & communications
Autotech & mobility

CV

Since 2023 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2020 - 2023 Senior associate, Taylor Wessing
2016 Secondment, Bae, Kim & Lee, Seoul, South Korea
2013 - 2020 Lawyer, Gowling WLG (London)
2011 - 2013 Trainee solicitor, Gowling WLG (London)
2014 Postgraduate Diploma, Intellectual Property Law, University of Oxford
2011 Legal Practice Course, University of Law
2010 Graduate Diploma, Law, University of Law
2009 BSc, Natural Sciences, University of Durham

Career

Since 2023 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2020 - 2023 Senior associate, Taylor Wessing
2016 Secondment, Bae, Kim & Lee, Seoul, South Korea
2013 - 2020 Lawyer, Gowling WLG (London)
2011 - 2013 Trainee solicitor, Gowling WLG (London)

Education

2014 Postgraduate Diploma, Intellectual Property Law, University of Oxford
2011 Legal Practice Course, University of Law
2010 Graduate Diploma, Law, University of Law
2009 BSc, Natural Sciences, University of Durham

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The development of the UK's SEP/FRAND landscape since Unwired Planet v Huawei – part two

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A shift in the European FRANDscape

5 October 2023

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Taylor Wessing spearheads launch of new Trans-Pacific intellectual property guide

30 September 2021

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