Why choose me
Having worked in SMEs, start-ups and larger companies, I employ a range of technology specialisms including preparing patent application procedures, handling design registration procedures and coordinating multi-jurisdictional patent application procedures. I’ve also worked with apps, software-based inventions and robotic devices.
As an authorised representative of the UK Intellectual Property Office, the European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, I can help clients with many of their intellectual property and patent issues.
Protecting intellectual property can add real value to a business. I work hard with my clients to work out what the appropriate legal protection would be for them, and advise also on due diligence, ownership and licencing matters.
Having worked in SMEs, start-ups and larger companies, I employ a range of technology specialisms including preparing patent application procedures, handling design registration procedures and coordinating multi-jurisdictional patent application procedures. I’ve also worked with apps, software-based inventions and robotic devices.
As an authorised representative of the UK Intellectual Property Office, the European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, I can help clients with many of their intellectual property and patent issues.
Protecting intellectual property can add real value to a business. I work hard with my clients to work out what the appropriate legal protection would be for them, and advise also on due diligence, ownership and licencing matters.
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Questions my clients ask me
Routinely, a patent application procedure takes several years. Indeed, the UK patent does not consider a patent granted “late” if it was pending for less than four and a half years. I am happy to advise on options that exist to accelerate a patent application procedure.
Surprisingly, many inventions can be presented to the patent office as a process or method in a way that does not emphasise the software aspect. In that case, a patent may be granted even if the method is carried out in software.
If you publish your idea – known as your own ‘disclosure’, this disclosure can be used in attempts to invalidate any later-filed patent, including your own. However, the disclosure must have been public in order to count for patent purposes, and it often depends on the circumstances. Do speak to us so we can consider your specific situation and what can be done.
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