Francesca Nwaegbe – B.A. (Hons) Law, LL.M, MITMA, RTMA, ETMA
Trademark Attorney
Francesca possesses a B.A. (Hons) Law and also obtained an LLM from Queen Mary College in Corporate & Commercial Law, her key subjects being trademarks, copyright, designs, confidential information, unfair competition, licensing and franchising. Francesca brings a wealth of experience as a successful trade mark attorney with a proven track record spanning more than thirty years. Francesca has been responsible for UK, EU & worldwide trademark & domain name matters for major companies including Shell Group, O2 Limited, BT Group, and Yell Limited (formerly Yellow Pages).
John Badger – B.Sc. (Hons), CPA, EPA, RTMA, ETMA
Patent and Trademark Attorney
Before entering the patent profession John read Mechanical Engineering at Manchester University and then spent several years undertaking development work with a major aviation electronics company. He qualified as a Chartered Patent Attorney in 1975, and as a European Patent Attorney in 1978. For much of his professional career he worked in-house with two major international companies and has gained a considerable breadth of experience in the patent procedures of numerous overseas countries as well as prosecution, opposition and appeal work before the European Patent Office.
Michael Berkson – BCL, MA (Oxon), CPA, EPA, RTMA, ETMA
Patent and Trademark Attorney
After graduating with an Oxford law degree in 1966, Michael trained and qualified as a Chartered Patent Attorney at ICI Corporate Laboratory. Michael is a member of the CIPA/ITMA Joint Examination Board and is a lecturer and examiner for the CIPA Patent Administrators Certificate course.
Louisa Fielding – LLB, RTMA, MITMA, ETMA
Trademark Attorney
Louisa began her career working in trade marks after completing a law degree at Bristol and the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law. She started out in a specialist patent and trade mark firm and after her initial training she made an exciting move to a law firm in the Cayman Islands to work in the IP department. Louisa advises on all aspects of brand protection and enforcement in the UK and Europe as well as managing global trade mark portfolios spanning a number of different commercial sectors.
John Grant – CPA, EPA, ETMA, MITMA
Patent and Trademark Attorney
Although John’s principal discipline is mechanical engineering, he became knowledgeable in material science in relation to polymer coatings, pigments, glass beads, road making materials, road marking paints and cement compositions for concrete products, during his 30 years working for Redland PLC both as an employee, 1974 to 1998, and as a consultant, 1998 to 2005. John began his journey in IP in the last year of his apprenticeship with the British United Shoe Machinery Co. Ltd. when he joined its patent department.
Peter Lambert – CPA, EPA, RTMA
Patent and Trademark Attorney
Peter qualified in 1982, following nine years service in the Patent Department of Dunlop Limited, where he worked primarily for the Aerospace Division on such matters as carbon fibre braking systems for aircraft. He was also involved in the “Denovo” run-flat tire project.
Martyn Molyneaux – CPA, RPA (Rtd), EPA, ETMA, Chartered Engineer, FIEE, European Engineer
Patent Attorney
Martyn’s experience is in the field of electronics, but his work also includes drafting and the worldwide patenting of downhole retrieval equipment, interactive TV, intelligent robotic equipment and automobile electronics. He was involved in character merchandising actions for film studios, and was responsible for obtaining the “Polo” logo trademark in the UK for Ralph Lauren.
Clifford Sturt – BSc, ARCS, CPA, EPA, RTMA, ETMA, MITMA, MinstP
Patent and Trademark Attorney
Having obtained a BSc in Physics from Imperial College, University of London, Clifford joined one of the largest Patent Firms in 1977 before qualifying as a Chartered Patent Agent in 1981. Clifford became one of the managing partners before leaving in 1991 to become a sole practitioner and subsequently establish a new partnership. In 2004 established a new Consultancy partnership.
David Warrilow – MSc(Chem), MSc(IP), CPA, EPA, RTMA, ETMA
Coordinating Patent & Trademark Attorney
David graduated from Birmingham University with a Masters degree in chemistry before obtaining a further Masters degree in Management of Intellectual Property from Queen Mary University, London. When qualifying as a UK trademark attorney David was awarded the Payne/Bennett Memorial prize by the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys for the highest mark that year in the trademark search paper. David joined the profession in 2001, and worked with major firms of patent and trademark attorneys before founding London IP in 2009.
