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Dr
Victoria
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European Patent Attorney

Glasgow Office

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Telephone. +44(0) 141 229 5800
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Experience

Victoria has experience with a wide range of clients from individual inventors and SMEs to universities and large multi-national companies. Victoria's approach to her role advising on intellectual property matters places a strong emphasis on providing clear and comprehensive advice, tailored to individual clients. Victoria particularly enjoys working closely with inventors and managers to understand their business and uses these relationships to provide strategic advice to her clients.

Victoria specialises in drafting and prosecuting patent applications related to physics-based and computer-implemented inventions, in fields including medtech, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, automotive and space sector technologies.

Victoria also has particular experience prosecuting European patent applications targeted towards technologies underpinning emerging standards and competitor products, and has a high success rate of achieving grant of targeted applications.

Victoria joined HGF in 2016 from academia where she had been working as a post-doctoral researcher, having previously obtained a PhD in Astrophysics in 2013. Victoria's research involved developing new methods of image analysis and model fitting to characterise the properties of galaxies far back in cosmic time. She was also previously involved with research into the detectability of extra-solar planets during her undergraduate Masters project.

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Qualifications

Patent Attorney

Europe

MPHYS

Astrophysics, First Class, University of St Andrews, 2009

PHD

Astrophysics, University of Edinburgh, 2013

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA OR CERTIFICATE

Intellectual Property Law, Bournemouth University, 2017

Publications

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IP for Space Sustainability: Are We Missing a Trick?

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Investing in Patents for Space Tech: Safeguarding Innovations in the Space Sector

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Can Artificial Intelligence save the NHS?

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Can Artificial Intelligence save the NHS?

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CSR

Victoria participates in HGF’s internal training program for trainee patent attorneys as a tutor for EQE Paper B.

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