Arguably the highest profile patent attorney in Europe, Gwilym Roberts advises clients on all aspects of the patent process including IP audit and capture, IP filing strategies and patent portfolio management techniques. He acts for a range of clients including individuals, SMEs, Universities, and spin outs through to multi-nationals and handles a broad and diverse range of cases before the UK Patent Office, EPO and WIPO.
Gwilym has extensive experience in advising on FTO both at product feature level but also in terms of building risk management practice into product development processes. His strong focus on identifying potential IP risks and developing mitigation strategies has been implemented for multiple clients with board-level acceptance.
As well as being a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary University of London, Gwilym is Honorary Secretary of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) and the co-host of the podcast Two IPs in a Pod alongside CIPA's Lee Davies. They chat with entrepreneurs, creatives, patent attorneys and the occasional judge about how patents, trade marks, designs and copyright can improve our lives and solve problems for humanity. You can listen to them here or on most podcast platforms.
He has also recently spoken on a podcast by the European Patent Office called Talk Innovation.
Listen to his podcasts here:
• Talk Innovation by the European Patent Office
• Two IPs in a Pod a podcast about intellectual property by the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA)
Year joined the firm: 1998
- University of Oxford
