Kealan Fallon

Trainee Patent Attorney

MSci PhD MRSC

With a background spanning chemistry, physics, and engineering, Kealan has a deep appreciation of the challenges and opportunities within interdisciplinary research environments. His broad experience helps him to understand and protect his client’s innovations.

Kealan works over a wide range of subject matter in the chemical and electronics industries, from polymers and speciality chemicals to scientific equipment and photonic technologies.

Under the guidance of experienced patent attorneys, Kealan is looking forward to training towards qualification and expanding his remit of working with universities and spin-out companies to assisting SMEs and large multinational corporations.

Kealan holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry and a first class master’s degree in Chemistry, both from University College London (UCL). Before joining the IP profession in 2022, he held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University, Columbia University, and the University of Cambridge. He has published over twenty peer-reviewed journal articles and held two patents on his academic research. He is a Fulbright Scholar and a Ramsay Fellow.

AREAS OF PRACTICE IN PATENTS:

• Adhesive products
• Catalysis
• Chemical engineering
• Clean technology
• Consumer products
• Environmental chemistry
• Laser
• Materials science
• Nanotechnology
• Optics
• Packaging technology
• Paints and coatings
• Pigments and dyes
• Photonics
• Polymers
• Speciality chemicals