Christopher Ashcroft
Associate
Christopher is a UK and European patent attorney with a technical focus in physics with specialisms in telecommunications (including standards essentiality), AI & software, medical devices, and consumer products. Christopher takes a keen interest in design law both in the UK and the EU. He has experience managing international IP portfolios for large multinationals at all stages of prosecution including the preparation of appeals before the USPTO and the EPO’s Boards of Appeal.
Christopher takes a particular interest in providing strategic IP advice to clients whose inventions cover subject matter that is conventionally excluded from patentability, such as computer programs, mathematical methods, mental acts, and the presentation of information,
Christopher also enjoys working with start-ups and university spinouts to design IP strategies that support their long-term growth objectives.
Outside of work, Christopher enjoys reading, watching cricket, and playing Bridge. Christopher also taken a keen interest in wine and spirits having obtained the WSET Level 3 Award in Wines while at university. He is involved in the City of London Livery movement being a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Glovers.
Christopher’s areas of specialism are mainly in the telecommunication, computing, and electrical fields, these include:
- Telecommunications (inc. 3GPP Standards)
- AI and computing
- Electrical circuitry and electrical circuit control
- Semiconductors
- Consumer products
- Medical devices
- Electrochemical fuel cells
- Nuclear energy.
- FinTech
Chartered Patent Attorney
European Patent Attorney
Christopher qualified as both a Chartered and European Patent Attorney in 2023. He joined the firm in 2026 as an associate. Prior to GJE, Christopher worked for several years at two other UK-based IP firms.
Christopher has a PhD in physics from the University of Cambridge, and masters degree in physics from Queen’s University, Belfast. Christopher’s PhD specialised in the non-linear optics of organometallic complexes for use in telecommunication applications.