Jo is a partner in the chemistry team at Kilburn & Strode and has over 20 years of experience in representing clients before the European Patent Office.

Throughout this period, Jo has worked in the specialty (performance) chemicals sector and her experience includes small molecule actives and formulations for pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications, engineered polymers, dispersants, coatings, lubricant/fuel additives, additives for drilling/fracturing fluids, silicates for refractory cements, coatings, cleaning and personal care applications, and printing inks. The specialty chemicals market is complex and competitive. Jo has considerable expertise in acting for her clients before the Opposition Divisions and Boards of Appeal at the EPO and is known for her thorough and strategic approach to these contentious inter partes proceedings.

Jo has a strong physical chemistry background and this is reflected in her experience with fuel cell technology (including polymer electrolyte membranes and electrode catalysts), batteries, gas sensors, solar cells, LED technology (including thermally activated delayed fluorescence compounds) and materials such as glass fibres. Jo has also worked with wound care technology and biocide detergents.

Jo’s day-to-day practice involves drafting, prosecution, EPO opposition/appeal work and opinion work on freedom-to-operate. Jo has experience in managing large corporate multi-jurisdictional portfolios and in obtaining, maintaining and developing IP positions for start-ups, SMEs and universities. Prior to working in private practice, Jo had experience working in-house at BP Chemicals, (before the acquisition of the olefins and derivatives business by Ineos).

Jo’s filing, prosecution and strategic advice is consistently excellent. Her ability to understand a university’s patent-related drivers is impressive. Jo also has an enviable ability to work with a range of leading academics. Her support is always timely and incisive. - IAM Patent 1000, 2023

Qualifications

European Patent Attorney (1999)
Chartered UK Patent Attorney (1999)
MSc in Management of Intellectual Property, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
PhD (chemistry - UHV study of ammonia oxidation on Pt{100} using supersonic molecular beams), University of Cambridge
MA, BA Hons Natural Sciences (chemistry), University of Cambridge
 

Memberships

Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA)
The Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (EPI)

A molecular beam investigation into the dynamics and kinetics of dissociative O2 adsorption on Pt{100}‐(1×1), J M BradleyX‐C GuoA. Hopkinson, and D A King, J. Chem. Phys. 104, 4283 (1996)

A molecular beam study of ammonia adsorption on Pt{100}, J M Bradley, A Hopkinson, D A King, Surface Science Vol 371 issues 2-3 1 Feb 1997 pages 255-263

Dynamics of O2 on Pt{100}-hex-R0.7°: activated adsorption with a strong surface temperature enhancement, X-C Guo, J M Bradley, A Hopkinson, D A King, Surface Science Vol 292 issues 1-2 20 July 1993 L786-L290

A molecular beam study of the CO‐induced surface phase transition on Pt{100}, Andrew HopkinsonXing‐Cai GuoJosephine M Bradley, and David A King, J. Chem. Phys. 99, 8262 (1993)

Nonlinear island growth dynamics in adsorbate-induced restructuring of quasihexagonal reconstructed Pt{100} by CO, A Hopkinson, J M Bradley, X-C Guo and D A King, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 1597 (1993)

Corrugation of the reconstructed Pt{100} surface: a helium diffraction study, X-C Guo, A Hopkinson, J M Bradley, D A King, Surface Science Vol 278 issue 3 15 November 1992 pages 263-269

Control of a Biphasic Surface Reaction by Oxygen Coverage: The Catalytic Oxidation of Ammonia over Pt{100}, J M Bradley, A Hopkinson, D A King, J Phys Chem. 1995, 99, 46, 17032-17042

O2 interaction with Pt{100}-hex-R0.7°: scattering, sticking and saturating, X.-C.Guo, J.M.Bradley, A.Hopkinson, D.A.King, Surface Science, Vol 310, Issues 1-3, May 1994, 153-182

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