Associate
Chartered UK Patent and Design Attorney
European Patent Attorney
Physics BSc - Imperial College London
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Sinead graduated from Imperial College London in 2019 with first class honours in Physics BSc. Her final year project focused on the use of nanomaterials for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes within medicine, and she was awarded the David Smith Prize for excellence in Medical MRI and Ultrasound.
Sinead joined the Engineering team at Keltie in 2024, after five years in the profession. She has experience in drafting and prosecuting applications for clients ranging from large multi-national companies to small university spin-outs and start-ups. Sinead’s technical experience includes medical devices, software, automotive technology, and environmental technology.
Sinead qualified as a UK and European Patent Attorney in 2023.
29.04.2025
Case Law Review: Board of Appeal Decision T 1741/22Patent applications related to data processing often fall foul of the EPO’s exclusions on “mathematical methods”. Applicants in the MedTech space in particular may find it far easier to protect the hardware in their wearable devices and tools than to protect the software that processes and analyses that data. A recent board of appeal decision T 1741/22 seems to contradict the Guidelines for Examination and previous Board of Appeal decisions. This decision may shed some light on how the EPO may approach these data processing applications in future.
21.08.2024
Selection inventions in life sciences at the EPOThe EPO practice on selection inventions has developed considerably over the past decade. Two recent decisions of the Technical Board of Appeal are particularly instructive for applicants in the life sciences field. The Guidelines for Examination in the EPO (EPC Guidelines) define selection inventions as those that “deal with the selection of individual elements, subsets, or sub-ranges from a more generic disclosure in the prior art”. The Guidelines address the examination of both novelty and inventive step of selection inventions.
12.03.2024
Ireland and the Unified Patent CourtOtherLess related knowledge
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