Sarah Johnson

Sarah works with a range of clients across the life sciences and technology sectors focusing on contentious cross-border patent issues, medicines regulatory advisory issues and disputes, with a particular focus on patent litigation. She advises clients from a variety of industries across a wide range of technology areas, including clients from the life sciences, medical devices, engineering and telecommunications industries. Her cases often involve a cross-border element, and often involve parallel proceedings in the UK, European national jurisdictions, European Patent Office, and recently, the newly opened Unified Patents Court.

Her representative work includes acting for a telecommunications company in relation to patent and FRAND litigation, advising a pharmaceutical company in relation to pan-European enforcement in relation to a blockbuster product, acting in UK litigation in relation to surgical systems and a medical devices company in a patents and design rights case.

In addition to contentious work, Sarah has provided advice on licensing, entitlement, freedom to operate and validity and infringement issues.

Sarah studied chemistry at Oxford University, completing a Masters thesis in bio-inorganic chemistry. Before joining the patent litigation team at Pinsent Masons, Sarah has worked for several years as a solicitor in the dispute resolution practice of a UK patent attorney firm, and prior to that, for a number of years in the London intellectual property practice of a leading, full service global law firm. In both previous firms, Sarah specialised in intellectual property cases, and in particular, multi-jurisdictional patent litigation across a range of technical areas, including life sciences and pharmaceuticals, medical devices, engineering and telecommunications.

Sarah is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and in Ireland.