Commercial & Business Law Faculty

Rajvinder Jagdev

James Agnew

James Agnew is a supervising associate at Simmons & Simmons. He has worked on a range of contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters including commercial licensing, collaboration...

Joeri Beetz

Joeri Beetz, Patent Attorney, Keltie LLP, specialises in patents in the fields of mechanical engineering, physics and control software. Amongst all the different technologies he has been...

Alan Boyd

Alan Boyd is a partner at D Young & Co. Before he joined the patent law profession, he was a software engineer researcher and research assistant. Alan’s main areas of expertise include computer...

Richard Brady

Richard Brady is a lawyer who has spent many years working in Europe and the Middle East in the legal, financial and insurance arenas. He has a degree from Cambridge College of Teachers (2005) on...

Eileen Brandenburger

Eileen Brandenburger, PhD is a European Patent Attorney and Head of Intellectual Property at Recursion and Exscientia, a NASDAQ listed clinical stage AI-driven TechBio company, which is...

Tom Carver

Tom Carver is a partner at McCarthy Denning. He has broad experience in patent litigation (infringement and validity) in pharmaceuticals, medical and mechanical devices and electronics, including...

Olivier Corticchiato

Olivier Corticchiato is an independent intellectual property consultant. He combines strong international experiences in leading IP teams for major global companies. He was until recently European...

Lawrence Cullen

After a long career at the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO), Dr Lawrence Cullen recently established his own consultancy to provide advice and develop his interests in IP, especially in the...

Anthony D Del Monaco

Xiaodan Dai

Ms. DAI joined Madrid Operations Division of WIPO in 2018. In her role as an examiner, she has focused on the examination of international applications, renewals, modifications, corrections, and...

Catherine Dupenloup

Catherine Dupenloup joined WIPO in 1996 and presently works as a Senior Applications Support Assistant in the Madrid Information and Promotion Division, Madrid Registry, Brands and Designs Sector....

JoAnna Emery

JoAnna Emery, CLAS, F.Inst.Pa, is Project Manager, Intellectual Property at atai Life Sciences.
Previously, JoAnna was Senior Intellectual Property Paralegal for Cambridge Mechatronics Limited
where...

Niels Ersbøll

Nora Fowler

Nora Fowler, trade mark attorney and counsel with Kilburn & Strode, has over a decade of experience in advising clients and assisting them with the protection of their trade marks and designs....

Simone Frattasi

Simone Frattasi is a European Patent Attorney and a Telecom Engineer with a Diploma in IP Business Administration from CEIPI/University of Strasbourg and a PhD in Wireless, Mobile Communications....

Christopher Freeth

Christopher Freeth is a senior IP lawyer at Gowling WLG in London, with over 11 years of experience across the sector and particular expertise in complex worldwide patent licensing and R&D...

Arnaud Gasnier

Arnaud Gasnier is founder and CEO of Patentopolis BV. With 20 years experience in IP, he has practiced globally in various IP (patents, trademarks) departments and in various leading roles (Patent...

Richard Gillespie

Richard Gillespie, European and Irish Patent Attorney and owner of Inventorship, an intellectual property advice and services company, has over fifteen years’ experience in diverse technical...

Elsa Glauert

Elsa Glauert, Supervising Associate at Simmons & Simmons, has been involved in a range of intellectual property matters with a particular focus on contentious matters in the life sciences...

Rupert Hawke

Rupert Hawke, founder of Hawke Legal, has a business degree and is a qualified management accountant. He spent the first 10 years of his career working in multi-national business. In 2007 he was...

Catherine Hurst

Catherine Hurst BSc(Hons), CIMDip, PgDL, is an independent consultant in the contract and commercial fields. She was formerly a Commercial Manager at BAe Systems, following previous...

Brian Kacedon

Sharmela Kalmer

Sharmela Kalmer is a Partner at Gowling WLG (UK) LLP. Sharmela is a trusted advisor to a number of emerging and established innovative technology and life sciences companies operating in a range...

Sara Leiman

Sara Leiman, PhD, is an associate in Finnegan LLP’s Boston office. Sara works with domestic and international clients across the life sciences on global patent prosecution, strategic counselling,...

Jane List

Jane List founded Extract Information Limited, Cambridgeshire, UK, in 2013. Extract Information provides legal and industry focussed patent searching and reporting, IP management support for small...

Tim May

Tim is a partner in the Washington, DC office of Finnegan LLP. He has over 20 years’ experience in the field of US patent law, with significant experience counselling clients on software patent...

Michala Meiselles

Michala Meiselles is a solicitor in England and Wales specialising in international business law, cross-border transactions and compliance. Starting off her career at Berrymans Lace Mawer, she has...

Amanda Murphy

Dr. Amanda Murphy is a Partner in Finnegan’s Washington, DC Office and focuses her practice on strategic client counseling, portfolio management, and patent prosecution for a range of clients,...

Fred Nicolle

Maeve OFlynn

Victoria Randall

Stephen Reese

Stephen Reese is a partner at Clifford Chance and advises clients on both contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters including patents, trade marks, trade secrets and copyright....

Cara Regan

Cara Regan is an Associate at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP. She works on patent and trade secret litigation at every stage, from the strategic decision to file a proceeding...

Nicole Reifman

Nicole Reifman is a partner with McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP, Chicago where she has gained diverse experience in obtaining, evaluating and enforcing intellectual property. She has...

Juan Rodriguez

Juan Rodriguez is a Senior Legal Officer for the Legal Division of the Madrid Registry at the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) in Geneva. He is an attorney with a law degree from the...

Peter Rudd-Clarke

Peter Rudd-Clarke specialises in helping businesses navigate regulatory challenges and liability risks, particularly in the life sciences, healthcare and consumer products sectors. 

Peter advises...

Helene Russell

Hélène Russell, founder of The Knowledge Business, is a UK solicitor (non-practising) and specialist in Knowledge, Learning and Innovation. After 8 years in practice, primarily in clinical

Victoria Silk

Victoria Silk is Senior Counsel, Trade Marks – New Category Products for BAT. She is a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney and in-house Counsel. She qualified in London in 2005 and spent 6 years...

Arun Singh OBE

Arun Singh (Prof) OBE, FRSA is an international lawyer and consultant to an international law firm. He was formerly a partner and head of commercial law at KPMG Legal and partner at Masons (now...

Andy Spurr

Andy is Head Patent Counsel at Ceres Power, a clean energy technology company developing hydrogen fuel cells and electrolysers. Ceres partners with industry all over the globe to bring its...

Yvonne Stone

Yvonne Stone, Partner, D Young & Co, advises international and domestic clients in all contentious and non-contentious aspects of national and international trade mark, design, copyright and...

Mario Subramaniam

Mario Subramaniam is a Legal Director in the Life Sciences Transactions team at Pinsent Masons. As a former research scientist, he has a passion for the life sciences and has expertise in advising...

James Suggs

James is a partner in the intellectual property law firm McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP, located in Chicago, where he practices patent law. He prepares and prosecutes patent...

Clive Thorne

Clive’s practice encompasses all areas of intellectual property; including patents, copyright, trademarks, passing off, breaches of confidence, privacy and data law. He has wide international...

Rowena Tolley

Rowena Tolley, a trade mark partner with Kilburn & Strode. She has almost 20 years of experience helping businesses protect and build value in their brands.  She specialises in helping UK-based...

Ewan Townsend

Ewan Townsend's practice focusses on the commercial transactions involved in the development, exploitation and commercialization of medicinal products, representing many of the world's most...

Leythem Wall

Leythem Wall is a European and UK patent attorney and litigator specialising in the chemical, consumer products, energy, material, mechanical, medical and pharmaceutical sectors. Prior to founding...

Marie Walsh

Marie Walsh is a European Patent Attorney and Chartered (UK) Patent Attorney with over 25 years of experience in advising clients including start-ups and SME’s to large corporations. She has...

Silke Weiss

Silke Weiss is a fully qualified lawyer with a Master's degree in Intellectual Property from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. She has worked at WIPO since 2008, initially in WIPO's...

Mark Weston

Mark Weston has run his own law firm, Weston Legal, since 1 January 2024. He is also a consultant at Hill Dickinson LLP where he joined in February 2016 as a partner and Head of its Commercial,...

Tim Whitfield

Tim Whitfield is a partner with Powell Gilbert LLP. He advises clients in contentious IP matters across all IP rights with a strong focus on patent litigation and strategy, across a wide range of...