With over 25 years’ experience in the patent profession, Caelia has an established reputation for enabling business success through her insightful and commercially astute IP advice. Working alongside CEOs, IP Counsel, and investors alike, she is trusted for her strategic approach to IP management - building and bringing value to IP portfolios in the context of business needs. Caelia specialises in contentious proceedings, including interfacing multi-jurisdictional proceedings, such as before the European Patent Office, EPO, and the Unified Patents Court, UPC. At the EPO, Caelia specialises in complex opposition and appeal hearings, and is an expert in oral advocacy.
Caelia’s physics background and award-winning research at Oxford University provide a firm foundation for working within a range of technical fields, with a focus on MedTech and Healthcare. She is skilful in progressing protection for emerging technologies at the borderline of patentability, and advising on commercially optimal IP approaches, from trade secret protection to defensive patent strategies.
Caelia is an elected Council Member of CIPA - the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys. She is Vice Chair of CIPA’s UPC Committee, Chair of its Professional Development Working Group, and a Member of its Educational Committee. She is a Board Member for IP Inclusive, and sits on the Committee for IP Ability. Caelia Chairs Kilburn & Strode’s charity fund, Innovation for All, and runs a small vineyard in Kent.