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Paula Flutter

Paula Flutter

EIP, London

Work Department

EIP Dynamics, EIP Life, EIP Brands.

Position

Partner, UK and European Patent Attorney, Trademark Attorney

Career

Paula has a broad range of experience, covering a wide variety of technical fields, including medical devices, automotive engineering, hydraulic systems, manufacturing, fluid dynamics, technology, printing, energy generation and consumer products, and she deals with clients in all of these areas.

Paula has worked on secondment for a number of our clients, which has given her the opportunity to appreciate commercial demands and constraints, and consider patent and design issues first-hand from an alternative perspective.

She frequently represents one of our key clients in opposition proceedings at the European Patent Office, a number of which have progressed to appeal.

In addition, Paula has done patent and registered design work for a prominent NHS supplier, which led to those intellectual property rights being enforced. She has also prosecuted patent applications for universities and university spin-outs.

Paula joined EIP from a position as a Patent and Trademark Attorney in a major law firm, prior to which she spent six years working for the largest IP practice in the UK. Having spent time living and working in Germany, Paula is also a fluent German speaker.

2006 — present Partner, EIP 2003 — 2005 Patent and Trademark Attorney, Olswang 1997 — 2003 Patent and Trademark Attorney, Marks & Clerk

Languages

Fluent in German; working knowledge of French and Spanish.

Memberships

ITMA; CIPA.

Education

UK Chartered Patent Attorney European Patent Attorney Registered Trademark Attorney 1998 — 1999 Certificate in Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London 1996 — 1997 MSc Biomedical Engineering, University of Surrey 1993 — 1996 BEng Mechanical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast

Leisure

Travel.