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Rachel
Fetches

Partner & Head of Law

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Law

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Experience

Rachel is an IP/Patent Litigation Partner and advises on contentious intellectual property matters for clients across a broad range of sectors including, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, chemicals, food and beverage, aviation, media and telecommunications industries. She has extensive experience of litigating before the UK Patents Court, High Court and Court of Appeal. She has also regularly advised in relation to pan-European IP litigation strategy for both patents and trade marks. Rachel is currently leading HGF's UPC team.

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Industries

Services

Qualifications

Solicitor

England & Wales
Ireland
Other
Republic of Ireland

BSC

Cell Biotechnology (Spec)

MA

Health Care Ethics

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA OR CERTIFICATE

Intellectual Property Law

OTHER

PgDL/LPC College of Law

Recognition

MIP Stars Handbook 2016

“Rachel is an accomplished patent litigator with an excellent pedigree in life sciences” says a peer

IAM Patent 1000

“Rachel Fetches is the woman to go to. Her weighty workload includes substantial matters such as representing Accord Healthcare against Research Technologies a complex case that has involved expert testimony from US federal law and Texas state law experts”

Legal500, London: Intellectual Property - patents (contentious and non-contentious)

HGF Limited’s patent litigators have strength in the life sciences sector, as evidenced by Rachel Fetches’ representation of multinational generic pharmaceuticals companies in patent infringement defence and oppositions.

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Publications

A leading case - beware sequence errors in patent claims

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Managing Intellectual Property practitioner rankings – IP Stars 2025

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HGF receives exceptional results in IAM Patent 1000 rankings 2025

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WIPR Leaders 2025

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Managing IP EMEA Awards 2025

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UPC on Doctrine of Equivalents

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UPC stakes claim for wide-reaching long-arm jurisdiction for European patents

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Court of Appeal Confirms No Second Medical Use SPCs in UK

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UPC Court of Appeal Remits Meril’s request to stay infringement proceedings pending the outcome of EPO opposition

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UPC first FRAND judgment results in injunction against OPPO

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HGF ranked as a top tier firm in Legal 500 UK 2025

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Supreme Court holds that SKY marks were registered in bad faith

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Two IPs In a Pod - Practical experiences and insights of using the UPC

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The Patent Lawyer: UPC’s first year: emergence of a purely civil law system?

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IAM Patent 1000 2024

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First order to preserve evidence in the Paris Local Division of the UPC secured

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Mondaq awards HGF for thought leadership in Germany

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HGF is ranked as a top tier firm in Legal 500 UK 2024

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Prominence given to the preservation of the status quo

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Blockbuster blood thinning patent revoked

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IPBC Europe 2022

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UPC could open its doors in 2022

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A new dawn for SPCs

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UK Supreme Court invalidates Regeneron's transgenic mouse patents for lack of sufficiency

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SKY Trade Marks applied for to use purely as “Legal Weapon” are held to be invalid

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HGF wins Scottish “Firm of the Year” for Prosecution at the MIP Awards

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The end of the UPC as we know it?

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SkyKick ruling

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Clearing out the clutter – SkyKick may open up trade mark registers Across Europe

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The Vedanta Opposition: A healthy sign of a maturing industry

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Test for obviousness for dosage patents clarified by the Supreme Court

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Conferences: 2024

19th, 26th June 2024

HGF's 10th Annual IP in Healthcare Conference 2024

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5th - 6th March 2024

Sedona Conference 2024

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Conferences: 2023

21st November 2023

LSPN Europe 2023

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7th - 8th June 2023

Managing IP Intellectual Property & Innovation Summit Europe 2023

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27th - 29th March 2023

IPBC Europe 2023

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13th - 14th March 2023

Global IP Exchange Europe 2023

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Conferences: 2022

30th November - 1st December 2022

IAM Connect UPC 2022

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29th November 2022

LSPN Europe 2022

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25th October 2022

Webinar: Litigating in the Unified Patent Court

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6th October 2022

UPC event in Ireland: Maintaining commercial relevance of your European IP strategy with the new Unified Patent Court system

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15th - 16th June 2022

Managing IP's Intellectual Property and Innovation Summit 2022

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7th March 2022

IQPC Global Exchange Europe 2022

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Conferences: 2021

02-03-2021

MIP International Patent Forum

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09-02-2021

HGF IP in Healthcare Virtual Conference

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14th January 2021

HGF IP in Healthcare Virtual Conference 2021

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Conferences: 2020

02-11-2020

AIPPI Congress London

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Conferences: 2019

26-11-2019

IQPC Lifesciences in IP

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26th November 2019

IQPC Life Science IP 2019 - London

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21-11-2019

Life Sciences Patent Network

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3rd June 2019

2019 BIO International Convention - Philadelphia

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19-03-2019

HGF IP in Healthcare Conference

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14th March 2019

IP in Healthcare Conference 2019 - London & Manchester

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Conferences: 2018

27-11-2018

IQPC Life Sciences IP Conference

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Event - 2nd August 2023

IAM Connect UPC 2023

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IAM Patent 1000 2023

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