Rachel Oxley > Mewburn Ellis LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Rachel Oxley

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Work Department

Engineering

Position

Partner, Patent Attorney

Career

Rachel leads our London engineering team, carrying out patent and design work in the engineering, chemical and materials sectors. She has experience in original drafting, prosecution, opposition and appeals, as well as providing IP strategy and worldwide portfolio management for UK clients. Rachel also handles opinion work including management and coordination of large scale, multi-jurisdictional FTO opinion work.

Areas of Expertise

• Medical devices
• Beverage transport, dispense and packaging
• Sportswear and sporting goods
• Next generation tobacco and nicotine products
• Access and evacuation products
• Gas turbine engine components and composite materials for aeronautical applications

Rachel works with UK SMEs, multinationals and universities. She has a particular interest in working with clients in Australia, Taiwan and India, and regularly visits those countries.

She joined Mewburn Ellis in 1998 and later qualified as a Charted Patent Attorney and a European Patent Attorney in 2002.

Rachel spent nearly two years working in an Australian patent attorney firm before returning to Mewburn Ellis in 2006 and joining the partnership in 2007. She regularly attends APAA and other international conferences.

Education

Rachel has a degree in chemistry and a PhD in polymer chemistry from the University of Durham.