Rob Pugh

Rob is an experienced patent attorney in the fields of life sciences, medical and chemical technologies, with extensive experience coordinating worldwide patent strategies, providing freedom-to-operate opinions and handling EPO oppositions, both written procedure and oral advocacy.

Prior to becoming a patent attorney Rob worked at Imperial College, London, and at Shell International in Amsterdam as a Marie Curie research fellow. Through this work Rob is an author of several academic papers, an inventor on several patents, and has contributed to a textbook, all in the fields of homogeneous catalysis and polymerisation catalysis. 

Following his academic and industrial careers, Rob joined Potter Clarkson in 2003 and became a partner in 2011.