Rachel Mercer
Senior Associate
MBiochem, DPhil, CPA, EPA
Rachel is a UK and European patent attorney who helps her clients protect their innovations in the biotechnology and life sciences fields. She draws on her research experience when formulating IP strategies with her clients.
Rachel specialises in drafting and prosecuting patent applications and manages large global patent portfolios. She has significant experience advising universities, spin-outs, SMEs and large multinational corporations on their early-stage technologies.
Rachel’s practice encompasses a wide range of technologies, ranging from cancer therapeutics and DNA technologies to probiotics, biomarkers and molecular biology techniques. Rachel also has significant experience advising on the protection of medical devices and methods of diagnosing and treating disease.
In addition, Rachel helps clients obtain protection for their plant varieties in the UK, EU and further afield.
Rachel graduated from the University of Oxford with a Masters degree in Biochemistry. She then completed her PhD at The Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology at the University of Oxford, where she studied the role of histone modification in directing the choice of DNA repair mechanism.
SPECIFIC AREAS OF EXPERTISE IN PATENTS:
- Agriscience
- Anti-infectives
- Antibodies
- Bacteriotherapy and microbiome
- Biological deposits
- Diagnostic methods and tools
- Gene editing
- Gene therapy
- Genetic engineering
- Medical devices
- Medical treatment regimes
- Microbiology
- Molecular biology
- Oncology
- Personalised medicine
- Pharmaceuticals
- Plant Science
- Plant varieties
- Protein biochemistry
