Joe is a UK- and European-qualified patent attorney in our Life Sciences & Chemistry practice group. He handles a wide range of patent matters relating to chemistry, particularly in the fields of pharmaceuticals, materials (especially polymers) and electrochemistry.
Day-to-day, Joe advises our clients on their overall IP strategy and competitor technical intelligence on top of drafting and prosecuting their patent applications. He takes an active interest in clients’ business strategies and vision, and enjoys helping clients use their IP to gain a commercial and competitive edge. His experience includes both attacking competitor patent applications and defending clients’ IP from third-party challenges.
Joe has particularly valuable experience assisting a global pharmaceutical company with a freedom-to-operate review for a clinical compound. This work also involved evaluating the company’s European patent estate and recommending actions to enhance protection for the compound.
On top of his client work, Joe enjoys keeping up-to-date with developments in European patent law. He has written several articles and delivered presentations on the subject of data admissibility in patent proceedings.
Joe has a Masters in Chemistry (MChem) from the University of Oxford where he enjoyed academic success, achieving a Gibbs Book Prize for outstanding results and placing second in his cohort overall. During his research year, he designed and synthesised solid-state compounds for potential use as battery materials and investigated the possibilities of moving away from unsustainable cobalt-based cathodes in lithium ion batteries.
Outside of the office, Joe is a keen musician and plays in an amateur rock band.