Mewburn Ellis LLP

Chemistry

Partner, Patent Attorney

Wilhelmus (Willum) deals with patent drafting, prosecution and opposition in all key jurisdictions. His particular area of focus is the pharmaceutical sector, where he has extensive experience working on small molecules for therapy of a range of indications, and spanning early drug discovery projects through to clinical candidates.

Areas of Expertise

NCE’s Salts, solvates, crystal forms Formulations Treatment regimens Combination therapies

Willum works with a broad range of clients – primarily in the UK, Europe, and the US. They include universities and spin-out companies, as well as large multinational pharmaceutical corporations.

Willum joined Mewburn Ellis LLP in 1999, after working as a US patent agent for five years. He qualified as a Chartered Patent Attorney in 2004 and as a European Patent Attorney in 2005. He joined the partnership in 2005.

He has been a tutor at the Centre d’Études Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle (CEIPI) since 2004 and continues to lecture prospective European patent attorneys in Strasbourg on an annual basis.

He has a BSc (Hons.) in chemistry from Queens University in Canada and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Cambridge, and subsequently held a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University in the US.