Richard Gordon-Brown

Experience

• Securing grant of UK patent rights that will enable the UK owners to benefit from corporate tax relief on worldwide profits under the Patent Box scheme
• Coordinating the drafting and concurrent first-filing of a batch of more than 50 patent applications relating to a commercially highly-important consumer product for a FTSE 100 client
• Defending a granted European patent from opposition while retaining a scope of protection considered to cover a competitor’s product
• In-house secondment work at a FTSE 100 company, including managing patent and design portfolios relating to consumer products, packaging and manufacturing machinery, determining patent filing strategies in view of the company's and competitors’ operations, budget limitations and regulatory constraints, collaborating with R&D teams and strategizing how best to protect their innovations, instructing outside counsel and critiquing their work, and helping to develop governance procedures.
• Harvesting innovations and preparing and filing patent and registered design applications to protect key assets of a young UK-based PLC
• Drafting dozens of patent applications relating to personal care products and packaging, in crowded technical fields
• Providing freedom-to-operate advice in view of registered designs relating to personal care products and packaging

Recent work

• Managing EIP’s work for our sustainable packaging client Pulpex, including coordinating work done by our team of patent attorneys, and part-time secondment with two colleagues to provide an in-house IP function that advises the C-suite and R&D team on all matters relating to IP.
• Overseeing FTO advice given to various clients regarding, e.g., gym equipment and magnetic door locks.
• Coordinating patent landscape search work to help a client understand the status of, and key players in, a particular technology sector and identify “white space” to which innovation work could be targeted.
• Assisting with IP audits for a startup working on air purifying hardware for transport, and an established company that makes attachments for excavators.
• Ongoing drafting and prosecution of patent applications for a global transport & logistics company.
• Ongoing drafting and prosecution of patent applications for a multinational commercial aircraft manufacturer.

Published articles

• June 2022
  Startups Magazine, IP considerations arising from increased micro mobility competition (link)
• April 2022
  The Times, Innovation will finally get electric cars on our roads (link)
• December 2021
  Plant Planet, Agtech: Protecting your intellectual property in the field
• November 2021
  Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Internal combustion engines could play a part in decarbonisation – here’s how (link)
• July 2021
  Newsflash, How could internal combustion engines help drive decarbonisation? (link)
• 2015 to present
  The CITMA & CIPA Community Designs Handbook published by Sweet & Maxwell, regular updates to Chapter 3: “Making a Registered Community Design Application”