Colin Paterson

Director @Keltie

My 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), image processing, financial transactions and data forecasting, electronics-based technologies such as consumer electronics and embedded electronic control system applications, and engineering technologies such as the automotive, wind energy and agricultural sectors. I have extensive experience in drafting patent applications, portfolio management and patent prosecution across many jurisdictions. I also have experience in contentious matters including oppositions at the European Patent Office, and in providing infringement and freedom-to-operate opinions. I have worked with a range of different clients from individuals and SMEs to multinational corporations. I have also spent time on secondment working in-house at different multinational companies: one for a total of 18 months in the automotive sector, during which time I managed prosecution activities of a patent portfolio across a range of territories, and conducted invention harvesting and inventor-liaison activities; and, another in the consumer electronics sector, where I handle prosecution activities in front of the UK Intellectual Property Office and the European Patent Office, including attending oral proceedings at the European Patent Office. I qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 2017 and a Chartered (UK) Patent Attorney in 2018.