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Clean Technologies

Establishing a strong intellectual property position for cleantech inventions requires a breadth of scientific and legal expertise because such inventions often span a number of traditional scientific disciplines.

Members of our Cleantech group can deliver the necessary expertise. They are drawn from our other specialist patent groups: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, Chemistry, Electronics & Computing and Engineering & Designs.

 

BSc (Hons), LLM, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, European Patent Attorney, Registered UK and European Trade Mark Attorney, Patent Agent Litigator, Member of AIPPI and FICPI.

Tim Powell graduated in engineering from Southampton University in 1986 following four years' concurrent industrial sponsorship by a multi-national packaging company.

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Ray Charig

Partner

BSc (Hons), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, European Patent Attorney, Member of the Licensing Executives Society and FICPI.

Ray read physics at Southampton University. He worked a number of years for a major electronics company in research and development of semiconductor devices and integrated circuits, before joining Potter Clarkson in 1990. He became a partner in 1998 and joins the Board of Management in 2012.

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BSc (Hons), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, European Patent Attorney, Council Member of AIPPI, Member of AIPLA.

Colin studied chemistry at the University of Bristol. On leaving university, he joined a research team in a large international corporation as a metabolism chemist before training to become a patent attorney.

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MA (Oxon), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, European Patent Attorney, Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Ian read chemistry at Oxford University, after which he worked in the research department of a large multinational company as a synthetic organic chemist. Ian entered the patent profession in 1990 and worked in private practice before joining Potter Clarkson in 1999. He became a partner in 2000.

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BSc (Hons), MBA, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, European Patent Attorney, Registered UK and European Trade Mark Attorney.

After returning to university and gaining an MBA with distinction from Leeds University, Helen took up the position of Deputy Head of the Patents Department in a multinational company before joining Potter Clarkson in January 2001.

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BSc (Hons), PhD, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys and European Patent Attorney, Member of AIPLA, China Britain Business Council, The Research & Development Society and the Intellectual Property Institute. Past tutor in the EPI training programme for the European Qualifying Examinations.

Charlotte read chemistry at University College London and obtained a PhD in organometallic chemistry from Cambridge University.

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BSc (Hons), DPhil (Oxon), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, European Patent Attorney.

Andrew read molecular biology and biochemistry at Durham University and obtained a DPhil from Oxford University in the area of signal transduction and molecular biology, before moving into patent law.

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BSc (Hons), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, European Patent Attorney, Member of FICPI and AUTM.

Jane read genetics at the University of Wales, Swansea, choosing to specialise in the areas of human disease genetics and gene therapy technologies. As part of her undergraduate project, Jane conducted a bioinformatics study into individual DNA repair genes and their relationship to the incidences of particular cancer types.

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Darren Mitchell

Senior Associate

BSc (Hons), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, European Patent Attorney.

Darren read engineering at Kings College, Cambridge, before completing a degree in Industrial Design Engineering at Brunel University. Throughout his studies Darren was sponsored by a multi-national packaging company.

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