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Pawel Piotrowicz

Pawel is a European and Chartered Patent Attorney in our Electronics, Software and Communications team. He has industry experience having previously worked as a researcher for a major multinational electronics company developing memory devices. He represents a wide variety of clients in the high technology sector including a significant number of private inventors and start-up companies and clients located in the UK, Europe, Japan and the US and large multinational companies. Pawel specialises in the fields of physics, electronics and computer software, and also in inventions which are multi-disciplinary in nature. His areas of expertise include semiconductor devices, embedded systems, power electronics, automotive electronics, nanotechnology, spintronics, printed electronics, RFID devices, telecommunications, computer networks, computer simulation, optical systems, sensors and medical devices. He handles applications, oppositions and appeals at the European Patent Office and the UK Intellectual Property Office. He is familiar with overseas practice, particularly the US, Japan, Korea and China, obtaining protection for his clients via local associates. He also give opinions on infringement and validity. Pawel is regularly invited by companies and universities to lecture on intellectual property and to hold intellectual property ‘clinics’. He has been reported in the press and given radio interviews on intellectual property. · Venner Shipley LLP

EnglandIntellectual Property, Patent Prosecution

About

European and Chartered Patent Attorney in Venner Shipley LLP's Electronics, Software and Communications team with prior industry research experience developing memory devices. Advises high-technology clients (including private inventors, start-ups and multinationals) on patent filings, oppositions and appeals before the European Patent Office and the UK Intellectual Property Office, and provides infringement and validity opinions.

Practice areas

Intellectual PropertyPatent ProsecutionPatent LitigationElectronicsSoftwareTelecommunications

Office

Expertise

Semiconductor devicesIII-V / mesoscopic semiconductor researchEmbedded systemsPower electronicsAutomotive electronicsNanotechnologySpintronicsPrinted electronicsRFID devicesTelecommunicationsComputer networksComputer simulationOptical systemsSensorsMedical devicesMemory devices

Education

  • First Class Honours in Physics, University of Manchester
  • PhD in Physics, University of Cambridge
  • Certificate in Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary, University of London

Admissions

  • European Patent Attorney
  • Chartered Patent Attorney
  • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
  • Member of the European Patent Institute
  • European Patent Litigator
  • UPC Authorised Representative