Greg West-Walker
Principal
AJ Park IP LImited, Auckland
Greg is a patent specialist based in our Auckland office. He has extensive experience in all aspects of intellectual property (IP), including strategy, acquisition, and opposition and enforcement, in New Zealand and internationally.
Greg specialises in electrical and mechanical engineering, physics and optics, manufacturing, medical devices, and materials.
Clients
Greg acts for major corporates and mid-size manufacturers, universities, and technology start-ups.
AJ Park helped us with wider strategies... and took much of the burden of developing initial patent specifications and managing our IP 'briefcase' away from the engineers and technical managers, who were focusing on product development.
- Philip Rae, Hamilton Jet
Other credentials
Greg’s recent industry accolades include being:
- ranked as a patent star in New Zealand in Managing IP’s IP Stars 2020
- selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers™ in New Zealand 2021 in the field of IP law
- highlighted in IAM Patent 1000 2020 as ‘adept a drafter as he is an enforcer of patents’.
Greg is a past president of the New Zealand Institute of Patent Attorneys, and a past member of the Trans-Tasman IP Attorneys Board.
Expertise
Qualifications
- NZCE (Telecoms), Central Institute of Technology (1980)
- Registered Patent Attorney (New Zealand and Australia)
