Intellectual Property

Dr Peter Petkoff is Convenor for the PgCert in Intellectual Property and convenor of Managing IP and Trade Marks and Allied Rights modules.  He is also Director of the Religion, Law and International Relations Programme, a collaborative international research network at Regent's Park College, Oxford, and Managing Editor of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. 

Peter is involved in cutting edge research on the relationship between religion and politics and law and religion. 

Olga Grigula is a lecturer and a course convenor for the Patent law and Practice module, as well as contributes to other modules related to intellectual property and contract law.

Olga holds a Visiting Fellow position at the Oxford Martin School, the University of Oxford. She is part of the Oxford Martin Programme on Affordable Medicines, working on the ‘open innovation in drug development’ project that is aimed at facilitating the accessibility and affordability of medicines. 

Hayleigh convenes the Copyright and Industrial Design module.  She is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Intellectual Property, Policy and Management, writer and Book Review Editor for the specialist IP blog IPKat, Deputy Editor of the European Trade Mark Reports, founder of the World IP Women (WIPW) network and an Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law consultant. 

Hayleigh holds a PhD in Copyright Law from Bournemouth University, under the Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship Award. She also has completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice and accepted as a Fellow of the Higher Edcation Academy. 

Paulaisalso an Assistant Editor for the European Copyright and Design Reports (ECDR). She covers the syllabus on English Law Fundamentals for IP Practitioners.

Paula joined Brunel in 2018, having previously held positions at Queen Mary University of London and Buckinghamshire New University. She holds a PhD from Queen Mary University of London, under the Centre for Commercial Law Studies Scholarship Award. 

Lucy is a Chartered Patent Attorney, Registered Patent Agent, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, European Patent Attorney.

Lucy specialises in Electronics, Avionics, Mechanical and Electromechanical subject matter. Her past subject matter handled includes mobile telecommunications, radar, electro optics systems, semiconductor device technology and computer implemented inventions. She also has experience in IP Ts &Cs in contract negotiations including MoD and DoD contracting.

Lucy has taught for many years at Brunel and at Queen Mary University.

Robert graduated from Glasgow University with a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and followed this with a PhD in Bioelectronics.  

Robert has extensive experience working for Nokia mobile phones working on 3G and 4G mobile telephone systems.  He continued in this field for other clients, moving onto 5G systems and other wireless and Internet-based communication systems. He has also advised a number of exciting start-up projects in the areas of bioelectronics and DNA analysis, both medical and consumer focussed.

Robert has successfully built patent portfolios for his clients providing a solid basis for company valuation and investment.

Elena deals with all aspects of trade mark law and practice. She has experience in the clearance, filing and prosecution of trade marks and manages global trade mark portfolios providing strategic advice on trade mark protection in different jurisdictions. She provides opinions in relation to trade mark infringement and passing off, and handles UK, EU trade mark opposition, revocation and invalidity actions and the recording of trade mark assignments and licences. 

Elena was recommended in the 2015 edition of Legal 500, and was said to give “reliable and clear advice” in the 2016 edition.

Shaun is a European and chartered trade mark attorney. An IP director within the firm’s trade mark team, he specialises in clearance, prosecution and contentious matters relating to United Kingdom, European Union and international trade marks.

Shaun was previously responsible for the trade mark portfolio of the BBC before moving to an external advisory role in private practice.  He has provided trade mark advice to global brands and has helped start-up companies secure protection for trade marks. 

Shaun holds an honours degree in biology with biotechnology from the University of Birmingham and has a master’s in the management of intellectual property law from Queen Mary, University of London. 

Roya is a Director of Oxfirst and has helped clients unleash cumulative revenue gains in excess of 30 Mio Euro.

Roya has held an Assistant Professorship with the University of Edinburgh, a Department Lectureship with Oxford University and a Research Fellowship with the University of California, Berkeley.

In 2002 she was selected as the only Austrian in several years to represent the Republic of Austria within the United Nations and has worked as an Economist with the U.N.’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) where she offered strategic advice on Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer to Governments Internationally. 

Arthur is a chartered patent attorney at Phillips & Leigh with a technical background in chemistry. 

Arthur joined Phillips & Leigh as a technical assistant in 2008, and became a registered patent attorney in 2013. Since 2015 he has given annual lectures on patent law at Brunel University London offering students on the Managing IP course a professional’s perspective on the subject. He has also developed his advocacy and litigation skills by being amongst the first attorneys to take and pass the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys’ Intellectual Property Litigation Certificate course.

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