Intellectual property

Jane spent about a third of her career as an in-house Patent Attorney with Philips Electronics.  This gave her significant experience in working with inventors on a day-to-day basis and importantly in working with many different levels of management, both technical and commercial. From this, she gained valuable insight and experience in optimising IP strategy to add value commensurate with specific commercial business needs and in responding extremely quickly to IP issues, for example ahead of an important product launch. Jane has applied the experience and insight acquired during her years as an in-house Patent Attorney to her dealings with direct large and medium scale UK clients and with foreign IP firms as well as overseas direct clients, providing them with practical advice commensurate with their business needs.

Chartered Patent Attorney; European Paten Attorney; European Design Attorney; and European Trade Mark Attorney.

Jane Clark has over 30 years’ experience of drafting, prosecution, infringement, validity, commercialisation of IP and global IP strategy advice including Freedom to Operate, licensing advice, entitlement disputes and competitor monitoring. She has extensive experience in many technical areas including metrological devices, medical devices, network and communications technology, semiconductor process and integrated circuit technologies and consumer products particularly domestic appliances and personal care.

Jane also has significant experience in negotiating multinational Intellectual Property Agreements and Collaboration Agreements with high-tech companies and Universities. She also has many years’ experience of EPO hearings and recently successfully defended a patent considered of very high value by the client during Opposition Proceedings.

Jane has a master's degree in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge, specialising in physics.