AI team
The AI team offers a wealth of experience across a broad range of AI inventions from telecommunications protocols to photophosphorylation and from Smart Cities to Natural Language Processing.
Below are the key members of the FemTech team.
Gemma Robin
UK and European Patent Attorney | UPC Representative
Gemma is a partner in our Tech team with particular experience in Software and Artificial Intelligence, handling a wide range of complex AI subject matter with a particular focus on explainability, safety, and verification of AI models. Gemma is particularly passionate about supporting companies that are using AI in the service of women and women’s health, including fertility treatment, drug discovery, health and wellbeing apps, and AI assisted medical research. Gemma enjoys building excellent working relationships with in-house counsel, engineers and researchers, pursuing a collaborative approach to securing high quality, commercially valuable protection for innovations at the forefront of medical and AI development.
Joanna Deas
UK and European Patent Attorney | UPC Representative
Joanna is a Partner in our Chemistry and Life Sciences team, who also has many years of experience working with medical devices, and in particular medical devices specifically designed for women. As an example, Joanna has experience working with a Healthcare company who specialises in working with fertility-related inventions which provide women with highly accurate and easy to use in Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) products for use in the comfort of their own home. Joanna is also a member of the LSX female founders network, which is an online community of strong, independent, and ambitious women from health and life science companies, investor companies and experienced life science professionals.
Sandeep Basra
German and European Patent Attorney | UPC Representative
Soni is a German and European patent attorney and partner in our chemistry and life sciences team. Her practice focusses on the pharmaceutical industry, where she works with both small and large clients and supports their needs through the whole lifespan of IP. Soni is also an outspoken advocate of women’s rights and the rights of minority groups, and is a founding member of the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion group.
Isobel Finnie
UK and European Patent Attorney | UPC Representative
Isobel is passionate about improving women’s health and wellness and has experience of working on female specific innovation from wellness during menopause, to diagnostics sampling bacterial flora from the vagina, to sophisticated antibody constructs to improve breast cancer treatment.
She is a Partner in our Chemistry and Life Sciences team, who has over 20 years’ experience assisting innovative biotech, life sciences and healthcare companies to understand how IP can work for them. Clients’ value her clear and pragmatic advice on patents along their journey to securing a commercially advantageous position.
Sanjeet Plaha
Solicitor (England and Wales)
Sanjeet is a Senior Associate in the Trade Mark and Litigation Teams at HLK. She has 15 years’ experience in advising clients across the IPR Lifespan, from patent litigation to the prosecution and management of worldwide trade mark and design portfolios. Her clients come from a range of industries including retail, software, sports and fashion. Her practice also includes non-contentious work, such as the preparation of NDAs, licences, assignments and co-existence agreements. She is a member of the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Group and has experience in championing the rights and voices of minority groups, including women, through previous involvement in Independent Advisory Groups.
The AI team offers a wealth of experience across a broad range of AI inventions from telecommunications protocols to photophosphorylation and from Smart Cities to Natural Language Processing.
The Life sciences & healthcare team offers you a broad range of expertise in the pharmaceutical, medical and biotechnology field combined with long-term extensive IP experience which includes advising innovative pharmaceutical and medical device companies.
HLK has a proven track record in EPO opposition proceedings. In particular, HLK consistently outperform EPO averages on behalf of opponents.
The Materials team is highly experienced in protecting innovations across the whole field of materials science, from the synthesis of nanomaterials in the lab to the fine-tuning of industrial metallurgical treatments.
HLK’s FemTech team is comprised of a dedicated group of experienced IP professionals who have a specific interest in innovation for women, and are keen to play a part in addressing the disparity in resources and innovation directed to the advancement of women’s health.
Our Electronic systems and circuits team has extensive expertise across a range of electronics technologies, such as ultra low-power sensing systems, audio and RF electronics, vehicle electrification and high voltage electricity generation and distribution systems.
HLK’s Green tech team offers extensive experience and expertise in protecting innovations in the environmental sector. Members of the team have substantial technical expertise in a wide range of technological fields, including low carbon energies, energy storage, recycling technologies and alternative plastics.
As the semiconductor industry advances and innovation accelerates, attorneys at HLK continue to operate at the forefront of our profession, with an unrivalled breadth of technical expertise across the entire semiconductor lifecycle as well first-hand experience in the industry. This experience coupled with outstanding IP capability and commercial insight gives our clients in the industry peace of mind that the right technical expert with the right IP skillset is handling their IP.
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