Edward Rainsford

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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.