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Gareth Fennell
Partner
Gareth obtained a BA honours degree in Natural Sciences (Chemistry) from the University of Oxford in 1994 and an MSc in Computer Science from the University of London in 1996.
He entered the profession in 1998 after two years at Electronic Data Systems working as a software engineer. He qualified as a Chartered Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney in 2003.
His experience includes filing and prosecuting patent applications worldwide, opposition and appeal work at the EPO and contentious work ranging from litigation support in full UK patent litigation to handling more minor patent disputes. His workload spans a wide range of subject-matter, with areas of specialization including computer software, telecommunications, medical devices, bio-informatics and other computational/chemical interface work. A particular interest is the patentability of borderline cases such as computer-implemented business methods.
Gareth has had articles published on the patentability of borderline cases and has given various presentations and lectures on this and other subjects, including EPC 2000. He also acts as a supervisor on the LLM course in Commercial IP run by Nottingham Trent University. Gareth is also a contributer to the Chartered Institute’s advice clinics, helping innovators who are at the early stages of developing ideas.
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