Medical Devices Team INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Medical Devices Team
We consider ourselves well placed to assist our clients in maximising their intellectual property protection across all aspects
of medical devices, and to provide advice on the rights of others in this field. Areas in which we have particular experience
include stents; materials such as dental, ophthalmic and orthopaedic materials; ophthalmic devices including retinal implants
and ophthalmic lenses; nebulisers and drug delivery systems; wound healing systems; tissue culture systems and tissue scaffold
materials; implantable sensors and other diagnostic instruments; surgical instruments; catheters and syringes.
Our Medical Devices Team is made up of patent attorneys and technical specialists from a variety of technical backgrounds (e.g.
engineers, chemists, materials scientists and biochemists), which enables us to bring a wide range of experience to assist our clients
in the medical devices field. We have considerable experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications in this field. We
handle a substantial number of opposition and appeal proceedings at the European Patent Office (both defending and opposing
granted patents) and have considerable experience in due diligence work, infringement opinions, portfolio management and
advising our clients on their patent strategy.
Patrick Stoner
Partner, Patent Attorney
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Patrick has a degree in chemistry from the University of Cambridge. He joined Mewburn Ellis in 1984
and qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 1989. His experience in the medical device field
includes medicine dispensers, containers and syringes, coating for implanted devices and inhalers.
Clients include large US and Japanese companies.
Nigel Hackney Partner, Patent & Trade Mark Attorney
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Nigel has a degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Leeds. He joined
Mewburn Ellis in 1991 and qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 1994. He has a wide-ranging
patent practice, with experience in the fields of nebulisers and drug-delivery equipment. Also does
significant amounts of trade mark and designs work. Clients include multinational companies and
SMEs.
Simon Kremer Partner, Patent Attorney
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Simon has a degree and PhD in biochemistry from the University of Bristol. He joined Mewburn Ellis
in 1997 and qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 1996 whilst working for another IP firm.
He has extensive experience in handling a range of patent applications for medical devices and
related apparatus, including dental materials, wound-healing, tissue culture systems, and medical
apparatus designed for administration of therapeutics or measurement of bio-parameters. Clients
include individual inventors, universities, SMEs, technology transfer organisations, research councils
and multinational companies.
Robert Watson
Partner, Patent Attorney
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Robert has a degree in chemistry from the University of Oxford. He joined Mewburn Ellis in
1995 and qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 1999. He has worked on numerous patent
applications relating to intraocular lenses. President of FICPI-UK since 2011 and Rapporteur of
FICPI’s international design study group (CET) - represents FICPI on designs at WIPO meetings.
Member of Designs and Copyright Committee of CIPA. Foreign member of AIPLA.
Matthew Naylor Partner, Patent Attorney, Patent Agent Litigator
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Matthew has a degree and PhD in materials science from the University of Oxford. He joined
Mewburn Ellis in 1999 and qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 2004. He has experience
in tissue scaffold materials, joint repair and drug delivery systems, in particular for ophthalmic
treatment. Clients include universities, SMEs and multinationals including many JP clients. He
has been awarded a Patent Agent Litigator Certificate in 2010 allowing him to conduct intellectual
property litigation in all relevant courts including the Patents Court (High Court), Patents County
Court and on appeal from these courts.
Stephen Carter Partner, Patent Attorney
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Stephen has a degree and MPhil in mechanical engineering from the University of Bath, including
courses in biomechanics. He joined Mewburn Ellis in 1994 and qualified as a European Patent
Attorney in 1998. He has experience across the hi-tech sector, with particular experience in
medical devices and related electronics and software, including implantable sensors / simulators,
retinal implants, stents, surgical clamps and other surgical instruments, glucose sensors and video
laryngoscopes. He worked for a large law firm from 2000-2004 gaining experience in IP litigation
and due diligence work for corporate transactions and IPOs.
Stephen Gill Partner, Patent Attorney
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Stephen has a degree and PhD in materials science from the University of Cambridge. He joined
Mewburn Ellis in 1996 and qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 2004. He has particular
experience of patent work in relation to medical imaging technologies. Clients include universities,
SMEs and large domestic and multinational companies.
Rachel Oxley Partner, Patent Attorney
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Rachel has a degree in chemistry and a PhD in polymer chemistry from the University of Durham.
She joined Mewburn Ellis in 1998 and qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 2002. She has
considerable experience dealing with patenting medical device technology; the NHS is a client. Her
experience includes stents, catheters and medical pumps. Clients include British universities and
domestic and overseas corporations.
Jeremy Webster
Partner, Patent Attorney
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Jeremy has a degree and PhD in chemistry from the University of Nottingham. He joined Mewburn
Ellis in 2001 and qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 2005. He has extensive experience
across the field of medical devices, and in particular in relation to diagnostic instruments. Clients
include SMEs, universities and domestic and overseas multinational companies, in particular
Japanese companies.
Richard Johnson Partner, Patent Attorney
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Richard has a degree in physics from the University of Oxford. He joined Mewburn Ellis in 2001 and
qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 2005. A large proportion of Richard’s caseload relates
to the drafting and prosecution of applications in the medical device field. Richard acts for Creo
Medical Limited, who specialise in the application of highly-controlled microwave and millimetre
wave techniques in the fields of oncology and tissue sterilisation. Member of the International Liaison
Committee of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) and the American Intellectual Property
Law Association (AIPLA).
Simon Parry Partner, Patent Attorney
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Simon has a degree in ship science from Southampton University, including specialisations in fluid
dynamics and materials engineering. He joined Mewburn Ellis in 2008 and qualified as a European
Patent Attorney in 2000 whilst working for another IP firm. He has extensive experience of patent
work in relation to medical devices, including work with infusion systems including pumps and
needleless connectors in particular, and also work with intravascular stents and equipment for their
insertion. Clients include large corporations and SMEs.
Stephen Hodsdon [email protected]
Partner, Patent & Trade Mark Attorney, Patent Agent Litigator
Stephen has a degree in experimental and theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge.
He joined Mewburn Ellis in 2000 and qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 2005. His patent
work includes personal care and self-testing devices as well as dialysis. Clients include Japanese
multinational companies, universities and SMEs. He has been awarded a Patent Agent Litigator
Certificate in 2009 allowing him to conduct intellectual property litigation in all relevant courts,
including the Patents Court (High Court), Patents County Court and on appeal from these courts.
James Leach Partner, Patent Attorney
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James has a degree in physics from the University of Oxford. He joined Mewburn Ellis in 2005 and
qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 2009. James has experience across a wide range of
medical devices, and has particular experience in medical imaging methods, especially computerbased methods for imaging the human body and dental imaging methods.
Katherine Green Partner, Patent Attorney
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Katherine has a degree and PhD in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge. She joined
Mewburn Ellis in 2006 and qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 2010. She has experience in
the medical devices field, particularly drug delivery products and ophthalmic devices.
Hugh Paget Consulting Partner, Patent Attorney
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Hugh has a degree in chemistry from the University of Oxford. He joined Mewburn Ellis in 1969, is
a qualified European Patent Attorney and is a member of AIPPI and UNION. He has experience in
handling a range of medical device subject matter, including stents, dental materials, retinal implants
and ophthalmic lenses. Has considerable experience in EPO oppositions and appeals. Clients
include universities, multinational companies and SMEs. He is a regular visitor to Japan.
Robert Andrews
Associate, Patent Attorney
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Robert has a degree in molecular and cellular biochemistry from the University of Oxford and a
PhD in cellular biology from the University of Cambridge. He joined Mewburn Ellis in 2006 and
qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 2011. He has experience in a range of medical device
types including devices for administering therapeutics, orthopaedic implants, bio-incubators and
other culture systems.
Emma Graham Associate, Patent Attorney
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Emma has an MSci degree in Physics and a PhD in Nanoscale Physics from the University of
Birmingham She joined Mewburn Ellis in 2009 and qualified as a European Patent Attorney in
2013. Her patent work covers a range of medical devices including retinal implants, stents, catheters,
laryngoscopes and cryogenic storage.
Elizabeth Lambert
Associate, Patent Attorney
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Elizabeth has a degree in chemistry from the University of Oxford and a PhD in chemistry from the
University of Bristol. She joined Mewburn Ellis in 2010 and qualified as a European Patent Attorney
in 2014. She has experience in the medical device field, including patent work relating to medicine
dispensers, implants and intraocular lenses.
Matthew Smith Associate, Patent Attorney
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Matthew has a degree in Chemistry from the University of Oxford. He joined Mewburn Ellis in
2006 and qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 2010. His work in the field of medical
devices includes particular experience relating to delivery systems such as catheters, syringes and
transdermal drug delivery systems.
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This information is simplified and must not be taken as a definitive statement of the law or practice. Mewburn Ellis LLP is a Limited Liability Partnership registered in England (no. OC306749).
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