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Frances Wilding

Partner

UK and European Patent Attorney

Location
London (UK)

Contact Frances Connect on LinkedIn
Email fwilding@hlk-ip.com

Phone +44 (0) 207 611 7900

About Frances

Frances started her career as a Patent Examiner at the European Patent Office in Munich, where she spent 8 years working on examination and opposition of European cases and PCT examination. The technical fields covered included manufacturing and conveyor systems, circuit protection, packaging machinery and valve and dispensing technology. Frances then transferred to private practice in the UK, working in the fields of medical implants, fixed telecommunications, geosynthetics, earth compaction and surfacing, and a variety of electro-mechanical devices.

At HLK, Frances has continued to work across a broad variety of fields, including mobile telecommunications, healthcare, medical and display technology, including user interfaces, simulation systems, data centres, design and implementation of neural networks (AI), and business and internet-based inventions. One of Frances’ health-tech clients comments: “Frances Wilding is extremely astute in her assessment of disclosures. She quickly understands new developments across the health-tech sector. She has a constructive and focused approach to discussions with inventors. Her responsiveness is top notch. Frances is highly recommended for her pragmatism and knowledge of the use of AI in the healthcare space. She is also commercially savvy.”

Frances enjoys the commercial aspects of client advice, including portfolio management, litigation preparation and due diligence projects, which she undertakes alongside her prosecution work. For several of her clients she interacts closely with their in-house teams to drive FTO, invention mining and large scale original-drafting projects through to successful fruition.

Frances has a wide client base, which includes large multinational Japanese and German corporations as well as smaller UK businesses and French, German, US and Japanese law firms. She has an excellent working knowledge of French and Italian, is fully fluent in technical German, and is a regular visitor to Japan and Germany.

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Qualifications

BEng Manufacturing Engineering (Brunel University, London)
UK Patent Attorney
European Patent Attorney

What clients say about Frances:

My experiences of working with Frances have been, quite simply, exceptional. She has added value to projects far beyond expected, and has become one of our favourite legal advisors supporting the engineering teams.

— Dr Andrew Hilton, Intellectual Property Counsel (UK), Ford Global Technologies LLC