Alice Smart
Associate
BSc PhD
Alice has a wide range of technical experience working in large pharmaceutical companies and smaller start-up firms enabling her to work on patent applications from diverse technologies. Working closely with clients has enabled her to tailor her approach to each client’s individual needs.
From her experience with small, medium and large biotech and life science companies, Alice has gained an in-depth knowledge of every stage of the patent process. She has worked with clients specialising in prebiotics, probiotics, biomarkers and genetic engineering
Alice drafts and prosecutes patent applications for biotechnological inventions and has also been involved in oppositions concerning generic pharmaceuticals and has worked on both European and international plant variety filings.
Alice has a first class degree in Genetics and Biochemistry from Aberystwyth University. Alice completed her PhD in pharmaceuticals at UCL which focused on formulations for the oral delivery of protein and peptide drugs involving the use of polymeric nano and microparticles.
Before joining Appleyard Lees, Alice worked as a formulation scientist for Wyeth Research and in regulatory affairs for Astra Zeneca.
Alice has filed plant variety right applications on behalf of Aberystwyth University and international clients in the EU and UK. Alice has communicated to clients the necessary arrangements for granted plant variety rights and pending plant variety applications in the UK and Europe following Brexit. Alice has also successfully completed a course provided by UPOV on the “System of Plant Variety Protection under the UPOV Convention”.
AREAS OF PRACTICE IN PATENTS:
- Bacteriotherapy and microbiome
- Biological deposits
- Biologics
- Biosensors
- Food science
- Gene editing
- Gene therapy
- Genetically modified organisms
- Medical devices
- Microbiology
- Molecular biology
- Nanotechnology
- Packaging
- Pharmaceutical packaging
- Pharmaceuticals
- Plant science
- Plant varieties
- Protein biochemistry
