Setting your IP Strategy for 2025 - Strategic Patent and Tradesecret Development

Kim has been at the forefront of the AI technological wave and has helped shape the strategy and AI patent portfolios of several of the world’s largest patent filers.

Kim was rated as a Rising Star 2022 by Managing IP in recognition of her expertise in this area. She has spoken widely on the subject and was an invited Speaker at the recent WIPO-KIPO Interactive Online Workshop on AI & IP. Kim has also been a regular contributor to the IAM magazine’s thought leadership section on AI.

Kim is a strategic thinker and loves helping her clients navigate the complex legal framework surrounding AI to obtain commercially valuable Intellectual Property, keeping detectability, licensing and potential litigation at the front of her thinking.

Colin’s professional experience spans a variety of technical areas, including software- and mathematical-based technologies such as Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, e.g. for drug discovery, electronics-based technologies such as consumer electronics and embedded electronic control system applications, and engineering technologies such as in the automotive, wind energy and agricultural sectors.

Having worked with a range of different clients from individuals and SMEs to multinational corporations, Colin has extensive experience in drafting patent applications, portfolio management and patent prosecution across many jurisdictions. He also has experience in contentious matters including oppositions at the European Patent Office, and in providing infringement and freedom-to-operate opinions.