How I can help your business

• Advise you on international IP strategy, including where and how to protect your innovations
• Advise you on the protection of complex technologies in computing, electronics and communications
• Provide pragmatic, responsive support tailored to your organisation’s size, timelines, budget and commercial priorities

Overview & Expertise

Patrick Scott is a Principal and Chartered (UK) and European Patent Attorney based in Birmingham. He advises clients across the UK and internationally, working with organisations ranging from global technology companies to startups, universities and individual inventors to protect, develop and commercialise their innovations.

His practice focuses on high-technology fields including software and AI, computer hardware, telecommunications, networking, electronics, medical devices and image processing. He has extensive experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the UK,

Europe and worldwide, as well as advising on freedom-to-operate and European oppositions. He provides clients with clear, practical guidance on managing and enforcing their IP positions.

Patrick trained and qualified in London, becoming dual UK and European qualified in 2017, before joining Marks & Clerk. He holds an MSci in Physics and a PhD in high energy particle and nuclear physics from the University of Birmingham, including research conducted at CERN. This background supports a detailed understanding of complex technologies and enables effective collaboration with R&D teams.

He has experience working with major international clients on substantial patent portfolios, as well as supporting university technology transfer, spin-outs and growing technology businesses.

Patrick builds long term relationships with clients supporting them through their different stages of development as they scale.

Client Work & Case Experience

• Drafting and prosecuting patent applications for clients in the technology sector across UK, European and international portfolios
• Advising international clients on freedom-to-operate and opposition matters before the European Patent Office
• Supporting universities and research organisations - technology transfer, spin-outs and commercialisation of IP
• Providing strategic IP advice to startups and growing businesses aligned to funding, development and scaling priorities