Simon Wright Email & Phone Number

Littlehampton, West Sussex, Gb

Schlich is a progressive, client-focussed boutique IP firm with flexibility, a great work ethic and an all-inclusive team approach. This is an exciting and growing firm, with ambition and a desire to give the very best service to their clients, both large and small. Based on the South Coast, the firm delivers a top quality service at competitive rates, and provides a friendly and welcoming atmosphere to both staff and clients alike. A great place to work and a new chapter in my career.IAM Patent 1000 identifies Simon as a “recommended individual” for his expertise in Biotechnology. Simon isreported to have “the ear of venture capitalists” and is “an influential figure inmany of Europe’s IP organisations”. He is named as a UK Patent Expert byExpert Guides.Simon is a member of the governing Councils for both professional institutes,the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents (CIPA) and the Institute ofRepresentatives before the EPO (epi). He currently chairs the CIPA Life SciencesCommittee, which organises an annual biotech conference in the UK lateNovember. He is also the Secretary of the epi Biotech Committee. Thisgives him a valuable insight into future legislative and practice changes, inparticular before the EPO, and the opportunity to influence future legislation.Simon was a contributor to The CIPA Guide to the Patents Acts, 9th edition (the"Black Book") published in December 2019.

London, England, Gb

I joined J A Kemp in 1994 and became a partner in 1999.His technical work covered vaccines, pharmaceuticals, fermentation technology,pharmaceutical and nutritional uses of polyunsaturated fatty acids, astaxanthinand Vitamin B12 and greentech (eco-friendly algae plant technology). He alsohandles cases on gene therapy, personalised nutrition, biofuels, liposometechnology, cancer biomarkers, micro-arrays, stem cells, in vitro fertilisationand CRISPR technology.Simon’s clients ranged from US multinational companies to small UK academicorganisations and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). He has beeninvolved in oppositions and appeals concerning human pheromones, Hoffman-LaRoche’s polymerised chain reaction patents, ultrasound contrast agents,medical devices (for measuring glucose levels), nutritional uses of arachidonicacid (ARA), vaccines and anti-prolactin agents.Simon was involved in the seminal EPO Board of Appeal Decision T820/92concerning contraceptive methods involving the administration of luteinisinghormone-releasing hormone to women. He also acted as an expert witness andgave evidence to the English High Court in the HGS v Eli Lilly litigation, whichled to the first ever Supreme Court decision on a patent matter (concerningindustrial applicability).

84 Theobalds Road, London, Gb

I joined K&S during the Black & Decker WORKMATE litigation. I handled patents trade marks and designs while training as a patent and trade mark attorney. I drafted, filed and prosecuted patent applications in a variety of technical fields including condiment dispensers (Cole & Mason), petrol pump covers (ZVA), medical injection devices (Owen Mumford), pharmaceuticals (A H Robins and British Biotechnology Limited), transgenic animals, enzymes (Alko, Finland, and Genzyme, USA), vaccines (Immunex, USA), cryopreservation techniques (BTG) and solid state superconductors (Arkansas University, USA).

Bsc. Honours Degree In Chemistry (With Biochemistry Options), Third Year Project Concerned Imaging Solid Objects In Liquids Using 3D Nmr Techniques.

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