Beck Greener LLP

Partner. Patents & Trade Marks

“Enthusiastic and committed” patent and trade mark expert Catherine Jewell is admired by clients for a mastery of the detail that allows her to present complex advice in a user-friendly way.

Whether in the patent or trade mark sphere, Catherine impresses with her legal and technical skills and her professionalism. She has drafted and prosecuted patent applications for clients with diverse needs and budgets, representing large multinationals in prosecution, opposition and appeals at the European Patent Office and UKIPO, while also helping smaller clients to develop their products from concept to market, including drafting patent applications and advising on trade mark registrations.

Catherine’s patent practice is focused on the chemicals field. During her time as a patent attorney she has worked with a wide variety of technologies, including energy applications such as photovoltaic systems, general organic chemistry, materials chemistry, ceramics and polymers, drug delivery systems such as self-assembling lipid-based formulations, and pharmaceutical chemistry. Catherine has handled inventions ranging from veneered floor tiles to epoxidation processes, siloxanyl polymers, zeolites and graphene coatings.

Also experienced in trade marks, Catherine advises on strategies for handling, extending and maintaining international portfolios of marks. She conducts and advises on searches and defends her clients’ brands through opposition proceedings and the negotiation of settlement agreements. Catherine is qualified to practise as a trade mark attorney under the laws of both the UK and the Republic of Ireland, allowing her to continue to practise before the EUIPO in relation to European Union Trade Marks and Designs post-Brexit.

Catherine is part of the team responsible for Beck Greener’s award-winning CSR function. This has seen her play a key role in overseeing the firm’s long-term transformation from a fully office-based working environment to a hybrid model with home-working. She also plays a leading role in implementing the STEM: Branching Out project, intended to help raise the profile of the legal profession among disadvantaged communities, and to broaden the appeal of careers in IP.

Fully committed to thought leadership, Catherine is a regular lecturer at the UCL School of Pharmacy as part of their Masters degree in Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurship, and is the joint author of “3D Printing Techniques in the Pharmaceutical Sciences – Intellectual Property Issues” in the Springer overview publication “3D Printing of Pharmaceuticals” (2018).

Before joining the IP profession Catherine worked in solid-state and materials chemistry, concentrating on the synthesis of inorganic materials and manipulation of their structure and properties. During her PhD she studied intercalated materials, while her post-doctoral research focused on potential hydrogen storage materials, particularly alkali metal compounds.

Catherine qualified as a chartered patent attorney and a European patent attorney in 2010.  She qualified as a charted trade mark attorney in 2011 and as a registered trade mark agent (Ireland) in 2018.

Catherine joined Beck Greener in 2013, becoming a partner in April 2018.

English

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA).

Member of the Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys.

St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford (1999 MChem).

University College London, University of London (2004 PhD Solid State Chemistry).