Rebecca Price
Associate patent attorney - London
“Upon exploring a career as a patent attorney, I found the unique opportunity to use the knowledge and skills that...
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John Austin-Brooks
Commercial manager (BD & Marketing) - London, Bath, Cardiff and Delft
John leads the business development (BD) and marketing functions in a patent and trade mark firm. He tells us how...
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Ikechi Iwenofu
IP Administrator - London
“I entered the trade mark profession by chance after completing a law degree. While working as a temp, I was...
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Julia Tribe
IP Administrator - West Sussex
“I fell into the profession purely by chance. Having risen through the ranks of Private Secretary / Personal Assistant to...
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Karen Leung
IP Administrator - Halifax
“I am head of records and renewals with Appleyard Lees, but didn’t start off in that role. I joined as...
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Chris Hall
IP Barrister - London
“Think of a barrister and you probably imagine dusty old books, wigs, and average TV dramas. But you need not...
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Sir Colin Birss
IP Judge - London
“I went to a state school. The idea of becoming a lawyer was not on my radar until well after...
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Ryan Weeks
IP Legal Secretary - London
“I entered the profession after studying a law degree at university, where one of the modules was IP law. The...
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Annsley Merelle Ward
IP Litigator - London
“I dreamed of being a doctor. When I was 17, I was in the midst of my chemical engineering undergraduate...
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Geoff Hussey
IP Solicitor - London
“After completing my genetics degree at university I set about trying to work out what to do with the rest...
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James Love
IP Solicitor - Leeds
“Throughout my undergraduate physics degree, I always anticipated I would be pursuing a life in scientific research. However, in the...
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Chris Burnett
Patent Attorney - London
“I found out about the patent profession by chance whilst at university. Whilst I enjoyed my Biochemistry course, I was...
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Anna Bartholomew
Patent Attorney - Woking
“I chose to study Mechanical Engineering at university because I loved, and still do love, maths and science. However, after...
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Emily Teesdale
Patent Attorney - London & Bath
“I have always preferred maths and science to languages, arts and humanities. But after taking Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Further...
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Susi Fish
Patent Attorney - Reading
“Having completed a Masters and PhD in Mechanical Engineering (specialising in biomedical engineering), I was faced with the decision about...
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Saiful Khan
Patent Attorney - Nottingham
“I’d studied engineering for my undergraduate studies and was fortunate enough to be sponsored by an oil company. This meant...
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Tom Leonard
Patent Attorney - London
“I am a patent attorney specialising in life sciences and have been in the profession for nearly 11 years. I...
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Gideon Agbanoma
Patent Attorney - London
“Unlike a lot of my contemporaries, I was not informed about the patent profession while I studied my undergraduate degree...
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Debra Smith
Patent Attorney - Swindon
“I studied mechanical engineering at university and was sponsored by the research laboratories of a large company. I worked at...
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Anita Shaw
Patent Attorney - Winchester
“Confession: I come into work each day looking forward to the challenges that I will face – not many people...
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Rhiannon Turner
Patent Attorney - Cheddar
“I was most of the way through my second degree when I heard about being a patent attorney, as a...
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Suzanne Oliver
Patent Attorney - Cambridge
“I studied Electronics at University and then I started work at Nortel Networks, a telecommunications company in Harlow, Essex as...
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Deepti Nigam
Patent Attorney - Buckinghamshire
Trainee
“My first brush with IP was a chance encounter. During the final semester of my dual degree program (B. Pharm...
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David Spinner
Patent Attorney - Cheddar
“Leaving university, I had no idea what I wanted to do. Although I ideally wanted to use my science degree,...
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Emily Cottrill
Patent Attorney - London
“Like many patent attorneys, I started off life as a keen undergraduate, fully expecting to keep on the white coat...
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Xavier Dauw
Patent Examiner (Europe) - Germany
“After my masters in semiconductor physics, my PhD and a couple of years in industry, I became aware of the...
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Auguste van Poelgeest
Patent Examiner (Europe) - Germany
“I studied mechanical engineering with French at the University of Bath in the UK and spent two semesters in France...
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Kerri Stenning
Patent Examiner (UK) - Newport (Wales)
“At school I enjoyed sciences and knew that to study Chemistry at university I’d need to do maths and sciences...
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Ashley Evans
Patent Searcher - Newport (Wales)
“I was introduced to patent researching via a recommendation of a friend who had applied for a patent searcher position,...
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William Smith
Technical assistant - London
Trainee
William did Easter and summer internships at D Young & Co. He tells us more about his route into his...
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Claire Webster
Technical assistant - Southampton
Trainee
Claire is training to be a patent attorney. She tells us what attracted her about the patent profession and how...
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Jennie Flint
Technology Transfer Officer - Cambridge
“After finishing my PhD in chemistry, I realised that I didn’t want a career in academia but wasn’t sure what...
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Monika Kraszewska-Hamilton
Technology Transfer Officer - London
“Sometime during the final year of my Master’s in Biotechnology I realised that even though I thoroughly enjoy science, a...
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Sarah Neil
Trade Mark Attorney - London
“I studied IP during my law degree and after deciding that the traditional solicitor/barrister route was not for me, but...
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David Llewellyn
Trade Mark Attorney - Cambridge
“My journey started nearly 20 years ago. I studied biochemistry at university and I liked it so much, I stayed...
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Rachel Garrod
Trade Mark Attorney - Halifax
Trainee
“I am currently undertaking a training contract, to become a Trade Mark Attorney, with Appleyard Lees. My route to becoming...
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Mark Bearfoot
Trade Mark Attorney - London & Oxford
“My route to the profession was a little unorthodox. I actually left school at 16 and found myself an office...
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