Practice Areas
Partner Catherine Jewell’s patent practice is focused on the chemicals field. She has worked with a wide variety of technologies, including energy applications such as photovoltaic systems, general organic chemistry, materials chemistry, ceramics and polymers, drug delivery systems such as self-assembling lipid-based formulations, and pharmaceutical chemistry. Catherine has handled inventions ranging from veneered floor tiles to epoxidation processes, siloxanyl polymers, zeolites and graphene coatings.
Catherine has drafted and prosecuted patent applications for clients with diverse needs and budgets, representing large multinationals in prosecution, opposition and appeals at the European Patent Office and UKIPO, while also helping smaller clients to develop their products from concept to market, including drafting patent applications and advising on trade mark registrations.
Catherine also advises on strategies for handling, extending and maintaining international portfolios of marks. She conducts and advises on searches and defends her clients’ brands through opposition proceedings and the negotiation of settlement agreements. Catherine is qualified to practise as a trade mark attorney under the laws of both the UK and the Republic of Ireland, allowing her to continue to practise before the EUIPO in relation to European Union Trade Marks and Designs post-Brexit.
Catherine is part of the team responsible for Beck Greener’s award-winning CSR function.
Career
Catherine qualified as a Chartered Patent Attorney in 2010, a European Patent Attorney and European Design Attorney in 2011, Registered Trade Mark Agent (Ireland) 2018 and Chartered Trade Mark Attorney 2011. Representative before the Unified Patent Court 2023.
Education
Queen Mary College, University of London
Certificate in IP Law
2007
University College London, University of London
PhD Solid State Chemistry
2004
St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford
MChem
1999