How I can help your business

• Guide you through patent and design protection strategies across electronics, physics and software technologies.
• Represent you before the UK and European Patent Offices, including in opposition and appeal proceedings.
• Deliver practical intellectual property advice for organisations ranging from multinationals and SMEs to universities, spin-outs and start-ups.

Overview & Experience

Rhian Granleese is a Partner, Chartered (UK) and European Patent Attorney, and UPC Representative based in Marks & Clerk's London office. She became a Partner in 2001 and has practised in the intellectual property profession for many years, advising clients across a broad range of technologies within the fields of electronics and physics.

Rhian has particular experience in the fields of: semiconductors, quantum computers, quantum effect devices, memory architecture, and medical imaging devices. She also has an extensive software practice, particularly in the AI area, covering technologies such as computer vision, speech processing and optimisation models. Her experience in these areas helps clients navigate sophisticated technical and patent-related issues.

Rhian represents clients before both the UK and European Patent Offices and has handled numerous opposition and appeal proceedings before the European Patent Office. In addition to patents, she advises on registered designs. Her clients include multinationals, SMEs, start-ups, universities, university spin-outs and individual inventors, both within and outside Europe.

Rhian graduated with an honours degree in natural sciences from Cambridge University, specialising in her final year in physics and theoretical physics. She stayed at Cambridge for a further three years in the Semiconductor Physics Group at the Cavendish Laboratory, gaining her doctorate in research into optical and transport semiconductor devices fabricated by molecular beam epitaxy regrowth.