Catherine Coombes

Partner

UK and European Patent Attorney | UPC Representative

Location
リーズ（英国）

About Catherine

Cath has spent 20 years in private practice protecting client’s technology across life sciences prior to joining HLK and is known to provide personable, pragmatic, strategic and commercially focused IP advice in areas such as large scale pharmaceuticals, gene editing, food ingredients, plant biotechnology, sequencing, and drug delivery.

A CRISPR specialist, Cath has worked on some of the earliest CRISPR patents exploiting its role in bacterial immunity and has been at the forefront on this technology ever since. As such, Cath has extensive experience in opposition matters, due diligence, and drafting across the wide array of technologies to which CRISPR has been applied. Cath has provided education to fellow patent attorneys, has written numerous articles and has provided commentary on CRISPR IP to leading scientific and IP journals such as Nature, Science, The Scientist, IAM and LSIPR.

Prior to joining the IP profession Cath’s background was in the scale up of active pharmaceutical ingredients and in the downstream processing of food ingredients.

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Qualifications

MSc Management of Intellectual Property - QMW
BSc Biotechnology - Leeds University
European Patent Attorney
UK Patent attorney