Susie Harrison

Susie Harrison is a highly experienced European Patent Attorney with over three decades of expertise in IP, focussing largely on prosecution, particularly before the European Patent Office (EPO). Her practice is deeply rooted in the life sciences sector, where her wealth of experience supports her provision of strategic advice and representation in a range of patent matters, including EPO opposition and appeals, as well as global prosecution.

With a strong foundation in biochemistry, Susie's practice is multidisciplinary, spanning a wide array of life sciences innovations as well as applications in the pharmaceutical sector. Her work covers:

• Personal medicine, including diagnostic and prognostic markers
• Nucleic acid and protein-based therapeutics and diagnostics
• Gene editing technologies, notably CRISPR/Cas9
• Antibody engineering
• Culture media and related biotechnologies

Clients

Susie works predominantly with life sciences attorney firms in the US, Japan and Australia, as well as small and large life sciences companies in the US and Europe and technology transfer organisations.

Background

Susie has a biochemistry degree from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. She trained in the patent department of an international pharmaceutical company in Switzerland from 1986 to 1990, also working for a large firm of patent attorneys in London from 1990 to 1994. She qualified as a Chartered Patent Attorney in 1991 and a European Patent Attorney the following year, joining Mewburn Ellis LLP in 2001. Susie became a Patent Director with the introduction of that role to Mewburn Ellis LLP.

Recommendations

Susie has been listed as a recommended lawyer and key lawyer in the 2022 edition of The Legal 500.