Medical Devices
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Attorneys in our Medical Devices Team are drawn from a broad range of technical backgrounds, including engineering, electronics, materials science, biotechnology and chemistry, enabling us to bring experience appropriate to our clients' technology to each case we handle. Areas of the medical device field in which we have particular experience include stents; materials such as dental, ophthalmic and orthopaedic materials; ophthalmic devices including retinal implants and ophthalmic lenses; nebulisers and drug delivery systems; wound healing systems; tissue culture systems and tissue scaffold materials; implantable sensors and other diagnostic instruments; surgical instruments; catheters and syringes.
Specialist Team
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Roger Calderbank, Partner, Patent Attorney, Trade Mark Attorney
Roger has a degree in physics from the University of Durham. He has extensive experience of patent work in relation to medical devices, including work with ultrasound devices, catheters, stents and implantable stimulators.
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Patrick Stoner, Partner, Patent Attorney
Patrick has a degree in chemistry from the University of Cambridge. His experience in the medical device filed includes medicine dispensers, containers and syringes, coating for implanted devices and inhalers.
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Nigel Hackney, Partner, Patent Attorney, Trade Mark Attorney
Nigel has a degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Leeds. He has a wide-ranging patent practice, with experience in the fields of nebulisers and drug-delivery equipment.
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Simon Kremer, Partner, Patent Attorney
Simon has a degree and PhD in biochemistry from the University of Bristol. He has extensive experience in handling a range of patent applications for medical devices and related apparatus, including dental materials, wound-healing, tissue culture systems, and medical apparatus designed for administration of therapeutics or measurement of bio-parameters.
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Robert Watson, Partner, Patent Attorney
Robert has a degree in chemistry from the University of Oxford. He has worked on numerous patent applications relating to intraocular lenses.
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Matthew Naylor, Partner, Patent Attorney, Patent Agent Litigator
Matthew has a degree and PhD in materials science from the University of Oxford. He has experience in tissue scaffold materials, joint repair and drug delivery systems, in particular for ophthalmic treatment.
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Stephen Carter, Partner, Patent Attorney
Stephen has a degree and MPhil in mechanical engineering from the University of Bath, including courses in biomechanics. He has experience across the hi-tech sector, with particular experience in medical devices and related electronics and software, including implantable sensors / stimulators, retinal implants, stents, surgical clamps and other surgical instruments, glucose sensors and video laryngoscopes.
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Stephen Gill, Partner, Patent Attorney
Stephen has a degree and PhD in materials science from the University of Cambridge. He has particular experience of patent work in relation to medical imaging technologies.
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Rachel Oxley, Partner, Patent Attorney
Rachel has a degree in chemistry and a PhD in polymer chemistry from the University of Durham. She has considerable experience dealing with patenting medical device technology; the NHS is a client. Her experience includes stents, catheters and medical pumps.
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Jeremy Webster, Partner, Patent Attorney
Jeremy has a degree and PhD in chemistry from the University of Nottingham. He has extensive experience across the field of medical devices, and in particular in relation to diagnostic instruments.
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Richard Johnson, Partner, Patent Attorney
Richard has a degree in physics from the University of Oxford. A large proportion of Richard’s caseload relates to the drafting and prosecution of applications in the medical device field. Richard acts for Creo Medical Limited, who specialise in the application of highly-controlled microwave and millimetre wave techniques in the fields of oncology and tissue sterilisation.
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Simon Parry, Partner, Patent Attorney
Simon has a degree in ship science from Southampton University, including specialisations in fluid dynamics and materials engineering. He has extensive experience of patent work in relation to medical devices, including work with infusion systems including pumps and needleless connectors in particular, and also work with intravascular stents and equipment for their insertion.
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Stephen Hodsdon, Partner, Patent Agent Litigator, Patent Attorney, Trade Mark Attorney
Stephen has a degree in experimental and theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge. His patent work includes personal care and self-testing devices as well as dialysis.
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Hugh Paget, Consulting Partner, Patent Attorney
Hugh has a degree in chemistry from the University of Oxford. He has experience in handling a range of medical device subject matter, including stents, dental materials, retinal implants and ophthalmic lenses.
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Robert Andrews, Patent Attorney
Robert has a degree in molecular and cellular biochemistry from the University of Oxford and a PhD in cellular biology from the University of Cambridge. He has experience in a range of medical device types including devices for administering therapeutics, orthopaedic implants, bio-incubators and other culture systems.
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Katherine Green, Patent Attorney
Katherine has a degree and PhD in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge. She has experience in the medical devices field, particularly drug delivery products and ophthalmic devices.
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James Leach, Partner, Patent Attorney
James has a degree in physics from the University of Oxford. He has experience across a wide range of medical devices, and has particular experience in medical imaging methods, especially computer-based methods for imaging the human body and dental imaging methods.
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Matthew Smith, Patent Attorney
Matthew has a degree in Chemistry from the University of Oxford. His work in the field of medical devices includes particular experience relating to delivery systems such as catheters and syringes.
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Jonathan Stafford, Patent Attorney
Jonathan has a degree in chemistry from UMIST, and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Cambridge. His practice areas in the medical device field include syringes, stents, implantable device coatings, drug delivery devices, wound care products and sutures.
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