Saiful Khan Email & Phone Number

An internationally respected attorney with over 25 years’ IP experience, encompassing both in-house and private practice, Saiful brings a wealth of knowledge to his work. He has been recognised for his work in IAM and Who's Who Legal. He is a Board Member of IP Inclusive, Vice Chair of AIPPI D&I Committee and a member of the CIPA D&I Committee. Saiful was a previous Board Member of his firm, during which time the firm transformed to be a full service IP firm with IP solicitors, acquired another practice allowing the opening of a London office, and successfully took on lateral hires into the ownership for the first time.Given his background, Saiful practises in a number of technical disciplines, ranging from medical devices, energy harvesting, nanotechnology, packaging, capacitors and battery-capacitor hybrids to telecommunications. He has developed his practice, and that of the firm, primarily in relation to software inventions (e.g. computing, user interfaces, displays, search engines, video coding (including Standards Essential Patents), image processing, virtual reality, mapping/navigation (including for autonomous vehicles)), including those using artificial intelligence. A large part of his work has been directly advising and representing the interests of multinational corporations, but he does support SMEs and individual inventors.With extensive experience of prosecuting patent applications before numerous international patent offices, including interviews with USPTO examiners, Saiful is adept at devising global patent strategies for his clients. His work has been used in successful global patent licensing and litigation discussions, and he has represented the interests of leading global patent holders in face-to-face patent assertion discussions.Saiful also has considerable international experience, frequently representing both his firm and the UK and European patent attorney profession as part of his work on the CIPA International Liaison Committee. In addition to being a tutor for the CIPA oral proceedings course for qualified attorneys (he has represented his clients at hearings before the EPO in Berlin, The Hague and Munich), Saiful devises and delivers workshops on various aspects of UK and EP patent law throughout the world.

Listed skills include Patent Prosecution, Intellectual Property, Start Ups, Prosecution, and 25 others.