Our Experts

Director

Grant finished his 32-year career at the European Patent Office as

Chief Operating Officer.

Director

Yannis spent 30 years at the European Patent Office specialising in software technology and artificial intelligence. 

Director

Nick has developed professional networks in both government and the private sector.

Senior Advisor (USA)

Ann has many years of experience as a board member of companies such as Alphabet (Google) and Netflix.

Associate

Franco's 35-year career at the European Patent Office covered ICT and standard essential patents.

Associate

Graham is a technical judge in the Unified Patent Court and former chairman of an EPO Board of Appeal

Associate

Siobhán's expert knowledge of  biopharmaceutical patenting spans  plants to genome modification. 

Associate

A medical/pharmaceutical patents expert, Wolfram held various senior mgmt positions at the EPO.

Associate

Nigel‘s 37-year career covered the

patent grant process, quality management and training. 

Associate

Daniel’s deep expertise in software and European patent procedures is built on

a 36-year EPO career. 

Associate

Domenico's 33-year EPO career covered ICT patents and development of patent search engines and databases. 

Associate

Maria finished her career at the

USPTO as Associate Commissioner

for International Cooperation. 

Associate

Jose ended his 35-year EPO career as Director of Classification, cooperating   on many global strategic projects.

Associate

Rinaldi worked for 32 years in the USPTO, finishing as a Technology

Centre Group Director.

Associate

Peter finished his 36-year career with Boeing as Vice President of Intellectual Property Management.

Associate

Marios spent 35 years at the EPO as director and expert in engineering and global classification.

Associate

Nigel had a 30-year career at the EPO – the majority of which was in Vienna in the Principal Directorate Patent Information.

Associate

Maria’s career at the EPO ranged from patenting biotechnological inventions to customer relations administration. 

Associate

Gautier was Vice-President and Associate General Counsel, Patents, EMEA, with Procter & Gamble.

Associate

Suzanne’s valuable expertise spans EPO opposition, quality management, pharma and applied polymers. 

Associate 

Per was the IP R&D manager at Spotify with a focus on software and AI invention.