After a distinguished academic career, Zoe joined the patent profession in 2007 where she specialises in biotechnology and life sciences and has extensive experience in food technology and surgical tools.
As an Associate at Script, she works with a wide range of clients from multinationals and universities to start-ups and private individuals. Her day-to-day responsibilities are equally broad, encompassing drafting, filing and prosecution of patents worldwide, and she is particularly familiar with managing multi-jurisdiction patent families with co-ordinated prosecution and contentious issues.
Memberships
- Member of European Patent Institute (epi)
- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
Qualifications
- Representative before the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
- European Patent Attorney
- UK Patent Attorney
- UK Design Attorney
- Intellectual Property Litigation Certificate
- Post graduate certificate in IP, University of London, UK
- PhD in Bioinformatics, University of Oxford, UK
- MRes in Bioinformatics, University of York, UK
- BA in Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
Specialist areas
- Life Sciences/Biotechnology
- Surgical tools and medical devices
- Genetics
- Bioinformatics
- Nucleic acid technologies
- Molecular Biology
- Microbiology
- Pharmaceuticals
- Food Science
Selected Publications
- Meisetz and the birth of the KRAB motif. Bioinformatics (2006), 22 (23):2841–2845
- Duplication and positive selection among hominin -specific PRAME genes. BMC Genomics (2005), 6 (120)