Brian More Brian is an experienced Intellectual Property Director and technology transfer and business growth consultant with a track record of delivering value to businesses through intangible asset management. He is an enthusiastic professional skilled in negotiation, business planning, innovation management, and coaching. Brian has overseen the scale-up of manufacturing businesses through research, development and full-scale commercial production and worked extensively with the venture capital sector on early-stage funds. He is passionate about the use of IP as a business asset and founded the UKIPO Master Class on IP, designed to up-skill business advisors on the commercial aspects of IP. View full profile →	Marcos Kauffman Marcos has expertise in identifying and commercialising new technology in the manufacturing sectors and has guided business advisors and company executives for over 15 years on the use of IP as a business asset. This includes working for over ten years in the UK automotive manufacturing industry, where most recently he implemented IP strategies to enable a new manufacturing company to maximise commercialisation of its high-performance battery packs for electric vehicles and to identify critical IP residing in engineering and manufacturing systems. View full profile →	John Lawrence John has 40 years’ experience advising large and small companies, and those in between. He has an interest in the economic value of IP and how to realise it and takes a holistic interest in helping clients maximise the value of their IP. His activities include writing IP Policies and IP management processes to have a plan to protect investment, conducting IP Audits, running IP training sessions and invention mining clinics, advising in regular product design meetings to steer on IP, writing the IP prospectus part of a company stock market launch, advising on IP for Patent Box tax relief and IP Portfolio management with an eye on cost-effectiveness. View full profile →
Katie Howe Katie is a senior associate European and UK patent attorney with a background in physics and chemical engineering. She manages IP portfolios for clients of all sizes, advising on strategy and assisting with budget forecasting. Katie also has experience supporting small companies and start-ups to make the most of UK-IPO funding schemes including the part-funded IP Audits and follow-on IP Access grants, including assisting with preparation of grant applications. She is enthusiastic about training and regularly provides introductory IP talks and workshops, as well as leading invention-spotting sessions. View full profile →	Cecilia Forslund Cecilia is a European and Swedish Patent Attorney and patent information specialist with ten years’ experience in IP. She began at the Swedish Intellectual Property Office (PRV) as an examiner and now delivers various types of searches, such as freedom-to-operate and invalidation searches, tailored to each client’s needs. She pairs deep search expertise with legal expertise to provide clear, evidence based strategic IP advice — informing portfolio direction, competitive positioning, and cost effective decisions. Her technical range spans mechanics, mechatronics, physics and telecommunications. View full profile →	Adrian Liu Adrian is a senior associate European and UK patent attorney with a mechanical engineering background, advising clients on IP strategy especially in engineering and electronics-related fields. As part of the IP Consultancy team, he has experience helping organisations of all sizes align their intellectual property with commercial plans and activities. Adrian develops clear, commercially focused patent strategies for clients ranging from sole inventors and start-ups to large corporations. His experience includes managing extensive patent portfolios, conducting IP audits, and leading numerous patent searching and analytics projects to support informed, business-driven decision-making. View full profile →
Malin Keijser Bergöö Malin has extensive experience as an in-house patent attorney, in large international corporations as well as smaller start-ups. In private practice she has advised a broad range of clients, especially on IP strategy and business aspects of IP. She has experience with a wide variety of technologies, ranging from simple mechanics to complicated algorithms. Malin enjoys all aspects of patent work, such as searching, drafting and prosecution, infringement opinions, freedom to operate, IP audits, validity analyses, oppositions, and litigation. However, her passion is guiding SMEs without internal IP competence to the most efficient use of their resources within the IP field. View full profile →	David Combes David has a strong background in Mechanical Engineering and Physics, with extensive experience in writing and prosecuting patents for medical devices, photonic devices, x-ray diffraction, metamaterials, quantum technologies, and machine learning. David works with a wide range of clients, including universities, startups, established SMEs and large corporations. David also enjoys oppositions and oral proceedings at the EPO. Before entering the patent field, he spent 10 years researching microsystems and semiconductor devices on defence projects funded by the UK and US governments. View full profile →	Jennifer Atkinson Jenny specialises in biotechnology and life sciences, and has particular expertise in immunology, vaccines, cell and gene therapies, biomarkers, genetics, diagnostics, personalised medicine, therapeutics and pharmaceuticals. She heads the firm’s University Sector group, and offers pragmatic commercially focused guidance to tech transfer offices, R&D teams, scientists and spinouts. She also works with many SMEs and multinationals. Jenny is experienced in validity and infringement assessments and managing contentious matters, including European oppositions and appeals. She is also actively involved in the UK Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys Life Sciences Committee. View full profile →
Scott King Scott has extensive experience in identifying patentable inventions and developing IP strategies, with a strong track record of securing patents at the European Patent Office, especially when faced with oral proceedings. His Physics background enables him to understand a wide range of technologies, from mechanical inventions to AI. He has worked with applicants of all sizes from a large multinational in blood transfusion medical devices to smaller SMEs launching mechanical and med-tech products. View full profile →	Nicholas Braddon Nick provides a full range of patent attorney services and counsel to clients of all sizes, including original drafting and prosecution for many direct clients. He deals with inventions relating to materials science, physical sciences and engineering. He is experienced in managing broad, multi-jurisdictional patent families. He heads the firm’s Energy sector and is active internationally, particularly in the Midwest USA and Japan. View full profile →	William Dean Will is known for building strong client relationships and developing effective IP strategies aligned with commercial goals. He regularly drafts and prosecutes patent applications across the UK and Europe and assists with due diligence and oppositions. His expertise covers pharmaceuticals, materials, food and drink, catalysis, industrial processes and medical devices. View full profile →
Emily Marshall After completing her first-class degree in Law with Management from Aston University – including a placement with Barker Brettell’s trade mark team – Emily joined the firm as a trainee trade mark attorney. She qualified in 2024 and works with clients across sectors with particular interest in social media and e-commerce enforcement. View full profile →	Philip Colbran Phil is a patent attorney with great technical skills and understanding of the commercial importance of IP protection. He advises businesses from start-ups to international corporates and is experienced in contentious patent and design proceedings at the EPO. His technical specialism lies in materials science, metallurgy and mechanical engineering. View full profile →	Tracy Arch A much sought-after trade mark attorney with over 20 years’ experience, Tracy manages global portfolios across FMCG, food & drink and hospitality sectors. She leads the start-up group and was integral to the firm’s Brexit IP focus group. View full profile →
Anne Bate Anne has over 40 years’ experience with clients ranging from blue chip multinationals to SMEs and start-ups. She has expertise in the patent and design administrative work in European, UK, US and other major overseas countries. She leads the training of paralegals to support attorneys and clients, and runs an advanced in-house training academy directed at improving efficiency and sharing best practice. She has been seconded to the patent department of Oxford University to help with organising their administrative work, and to a major telecoms company. She has also given a series of in-person lectures to clients to train them on IP issues and their interaction with daily life in a company, and is currently delivering an online training program for US paralegal associations with webinars scheduled throughout the year. View full profile →