Edward Rainsford
Senior Associate
BSc(Hon), MSc, PhD, CPA, EPA, MRSB
Edward has experience assisting a wide variety of biotechnology and medical device companies to protect their innovations. Edward’s time working in academia helps him understand the needs of universities and spin-outs, when commercialising their research.
Edward’s experience includes patent drafting, patent prosecution, European Patent Office (EPO) opposition and appeals, proceedings at the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC), freedom to operate reports, and registered design filing.
Edward gained his PhD in virology from Warwick University in 2006 studying rotavirus replication. After leaving Warwick University, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Virginia researching the rhabdovirus nucleocapsid protein RNA binding domain. Edward returned to the UK in 2009 to study for his masters in intellectual property law at Queen Mary University of London. Edward entered the patent profession in private practice in 2010.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE IN PATENTS:
- Agriscience
- Anti-infectives
- Antibodies
- Bacteriotherapy and microbiome
- Biologics
- Biological deposits
- Biosensors
- Cell therapies
- Diagnostic methods and tools
- Fermentation
- Gene editing
- Gene therapy
- Genetic engineering
- Genetically modified organisms
- Genomics
- Immunology
- Immunotherapy
- Industrial biotechnology
- Medical devices
- Medical treatment regimes
- Microbiology
- Molecular biology
- Oncology
- Personalised medicine
- Plant science
- Plant varieties
- Protein biochemistry
- Regenerative medicine
- RNA interference
- Stem cells
- Vaccines
- Veterinary science
- Virology
AREAS OF EXPERTISE IN DISPUTES:
- Appeals
- Infringement
- Invalidity
- Oppositions
- Revocations
