Sarah Gibbs

Senior Associate

BSc PhD EPA CPA MRSC

Sarah helps clients protect their inventions in both the chemical and biochemical fields. As a result of working with a wide variety of clients in these sectors, she has experience and understanding of the challenges faced by different companies.

Sarah’s work includes providing patentability advice, drafting patent applications, prosecuting patent applications in the UK, Europe and worldwide and handling large international portfolios. Sarah also has experience in conducting and providing freedom to operate advice as well as advising on patent infringement and validity matters.

She has experience in handling cases for a wide variety of corporate clients and also represents number of universities.

Sarah has particular experience in polymer chemistry, coatings, plastics and catalysis as well as pharmaceuticals, APIs, molecular diagnostics, medical devices and biotechnology due to her background in both chemistry and biochemistry.

Sarah has a degree in chemistry from the University of York, gaining a prize for highest overall academic achievement in her year.  She then went on to complete a PhD with a thesis entitled “Structural studies of the malarial proteins PfEMP1 and MIF from Plasmodium falciparum” at the York Structural Biology Laboratory.  During her PhD, Sarah gained experience in fields including molecular biology, genetic engineering, enzymology and biophysics.

Before joining the intellectual property profession in 2012, Sarah worked as a post-doctoral training fellow at the Institute of Cancer Research in the joint Divisions of Cancer Therapeutics and Structural Biology.  Here, she was an integral member of a large drug discovery team with the aim of developing novel cancer therapeutics against high profile oncoproteins using protein-ligand X-ray crystallography.

AREAS OF PRACTICE IN PATENTS:

• Adhesive products
• Catalysis
• Clean technology
• Consumer healthcare
• Cosmetic products
• Diagnostic methods and tools
• Environmental chemistry
• Fermentation
• Food science
• Genetic engineering
• Genetically modified organisms
• Materials science
• Medical devices
• Microbiology
• Molecular biology
• Novel active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs)
• Packaging technology
• Paints and coatings
• Pharmaceuticals
• Polymers
• Processes for manufacturing chemical products
• Protein biochemistry
• Surfactants