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The Patent Team has extensive experience in filing and prosecuting patent applications, both in the UK and in Europe. As you might expect we have a high level of expertise in working with both the British Patent Office and the European Patent Office.
We work efficiently for our clients to obtain patent protection that is as broad as can be justified. We are pleased to act for a large number of international clients from every part of the world filing and prosecuting European Patent applications on their behalf.
We are proud of having a good understanding of how claims in a patent application will be viewed by European Patent examiners and we benefit from the fact one of our partners was previously an Examiner at the EPO. This experience in particular has provided the patent department as a whole with better insight into the thinking of European Patent Examiners. We believe this gives us the advantage of being able to prepare and file claims which will have a good chance of being allowed and the methodology to argue our case should the need arise.
All of our attorneys have English as their first language, allowing us to prepare claims in English with a full understanding of the exact meaning and scope of the claim. Combined with our technical expertise across a broad range of subject areas and technologies, this allows us to offer a full and efficient service to our overseas clients.
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Fraser Brown |
CPA, EPA. Honours
degree in Materials Science, Bath University,
followed by postgraduate work at Oxford. Joined fJ
Cleveland in 1993, qualified 1999, and became a
partner in 2003. His specialist fields are
engineering, metallurgy and chemistry, with
particular expertise in polymers, drug-delivery
devices and electronic materials. |
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Tom Faulkner |
CPA, EPA. Read
Physics at Birmingham University, gaining the top
first. Joined fJ Cleveland in 1995, qualified 1999,
winning the Gill prize for highest marks overall,
and became a partner in 2003. Specialises in general
engineering, electronics, telecommunications,
software, semiconductors and optoelectronics. |
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Michael Williams |
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CPA, EPA. Michael obtained a BSc(Eng) in Electrical
and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College
London. He entered the profession in 1997 after six
years as an Examiner at the European Patent Office
(EPO) and qualified as both a Chartered Patent
Attorney and a European Patent Attorney by 2000. He
became a partner of fJ Cleveland in 2005.
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Annabel Hector |
CPA, EPA, BEng Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College, London University. Joined the profession in 1988
and qualified in 1994. Experience in both private practice and industry with patents in mechanical and electro-mechanical
engineering fields. Joined fJ Cleveland in 2005 and
became a partner in 2007. Has provided advice to inventors at CIPA 'clinics', and is Chair of
CIPA Working Party on Future Policy.
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Norman Smith |
CPA, EPA. Norman has a degree in Physics and a PhD in Nuclear Physics both from Durham University. He joined fJ
Cleveland in 1970 and qualified as a Chartered Patent Attorney in 1975. |
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| Adrian Bradley |
| CPA, EPA. Adrian has a degree in Chemistry from Balliol college, Oxford and a PhD in Organic Chemistry from University College, London. He entered the profession in 2000, and qualified as a European Patent Attorney and Chartered Patent Attorney in 2004. He joined fJ Cleveland as an associate in 2007.
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| Peter Arrowsmith |
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CPA.
Peter has a BSc in Astrophysics from the University of Edinburgh, which included a year spent at the University of California, Berkeley and an MSc in Optics and Photonics from Imperial College London. Peter has also undertaken postgraduate research work at the European Space Agency and University College London. He joined fJ Cleveland in 2005, passed the Certificate in Intellectual Property course at QM in 2006 and qualified as a Registered Patent Attorney in 2008.
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| Kerry
Rees |
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EPA. MBioChem in Molecular and Cellular
Biochemistry from The Queen's College, Oxford.
Kerry passed the Certificate in Intellectual
Property course at QM, 2003 and joined fJ
Cleveland in 2004. He qualified as a European
Patent Attorney in 2006. |
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Emily Teesdale |
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MEng in Aeronautical Engineering from Bristol University. Joined fJ Cleveland in 2003. Passed the Certificate in Intellectual Property course at QM, 2005.
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Abbreviation:
CPA - Chartered Patent Agent, EPA - European Patent Attorney
MITMA/FITMA - Member/Fellow of the Institute of Trade
Mark Attorneys, CIPA - Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, FICPI - International
Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys, FICPI-UK - UK Association of FICPI |
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