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Lara Sibley

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Lara is a Partner in the patents team, and is based in the London office of Marks & Clerk. A large part of Lara’s practice relates to protecting inventions in the Artificial Intelligence field, and she has particular experience with applications in areas such as natural language processing, medical imaging and home automation. Lara has also completed the Stanford University certificate in Machine Learning on Coursera. She advises clients across the world on patenting AI innovations and has given numerous presentations in Japan on the EPO approach to AI. Alongside her work in the AI space, Lara also works across a range of technologies in the software and electronics sectors, including in particular cryptography, Agritech, video coding (including standards essentiality evaluations), medical devices, wireless networking, optical devices and semiconductor devices.

Lara has successfully represented clients at oral proceedings at the EPO, and has experience of EPO opposition and appeal proceedings. Lara acts on behalf of clients of all sizes, from individual inventors, through to SMEs and large multinationals. She has experience prosecuting applications in multiple jurisdictions including Europe, the US, China and Japan.

Lara joined Marks & Clerk in 2012. She qualified as a UK Chartered Patent Attorney in 2016, having been awarded the Moss Prize for the highest aggregate mark in the Basic UK Patent Law and Basic Overseas Patent Law papers. She also qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 2016, having achieved the highest mark in Europe for the English language Opposition paper. Lara has a first class degree in physics from Durham University, and went on to obtain a PhD in solid state physics from the University of Cambridge before joining Marks & Clerk.

Lara was recognised as a rising star by Managing Intellectual Property IP Stars in 2019 and 2020.

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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Blockchain
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BSc, PhD

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- 07 September 2022

DABUS – Appeal to the UK Supreme Court allowed

We previously reported on the UK Court of Appeal decision on Dr Thaler’s two UK patent applications listing DABUS as the inventor, GB1816909.4 and GB1818161.0.  DABUS stands for “Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience”. 
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Article
- 12 August 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Agritech space

The European Patent Office (EPO) has seen a remarkable increase in the number of AI patent filings in the Agritech sector in recent years. In this article we highlight the growth from the year 2000 until 2019.
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Article
- 22 January 2021

AI patents at the EPO – a long-term trend analysis

Patent analytics can provide invaluable insights into emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI). We have uncovered a number of important filing trends, in terms of frequency, geography, inventor and scope of protection.
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