Speaker
Phillip Sanger
Agenda
18:30 - Meeting opens - Welcome and Introduction
18:40 - Hand-over to speaker
19:40 - Questions
21:00 - Meeting Closes
Synopsis
The meeting will explore the current state of patentability of computer implemented inventions (“software patents”) in the UK and Europe.
Phil will discuss why you would want to patent (i.e. the commercial drivers), as well as what is and isn’t patentable with a couple of recent case studies.
Speaker Biography
Phil Sanger is a UK Chartered and European Patent Attorney.
Holding a first-class degree in Mechanical Engineering, he’s also a qualified litigator and advocate.
Phil studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath, a degree that included a year in industry at Rolls-Royce PLC in Bristol working on gas turbine secondary air system design. After graduating in 2002, Phil joined Arup’s Advanced Engineering Group. There, he worked on creating and using FEA models of vehicles for crashworthiness analysis.
This included time over a year seconded to Detroit, MI on the team developing new vehicles for a large US automotive OEM. Phil joined the patent profession in 2005, and trained with a large, established UK firm.
There he worked for a huge range of clients in many different industries and discovered his enthusiasm for working for startups and SMEs.
He qualified as a UK attorney in 2009, and a European attorney in 2010. He set up his first IP business in 2014, followed by Grey Wolf IP in 2021.
He understands how tough business can be and the importance of protecting IP for company growth. That’s why he works hard to make the design and patent process as painless and cost-effective as possible.
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