Richard Bray
Key details
- Job title: Partner, Head of Engineering and Physics
- Firm: Appleyard Lees
- Jurisdiction: UK
- Services: Patents
- Type: Non-Contentious
- Rationale: Leaders Directory 2025
- Tel: 00 44 161 835 9655
- Email: richard.bray@appleyardlees.com
- Website: www.appleyardlees.com
Profile:
Richard’s clients range from universities, to start-ups and spin-outs, and on to globally-known household brands, across a wide range of technological fields.
Those clients are world-leading in technological sectors such as electronic consumer goods, defence, food products, and the more emerging technologies of autonomous vehicles, vehicular head-up displays, virtual and augmented reality, image guided therapy, nuclear (e.g. fusion), quantum security, and more.Richard acts as a liaison for many of Appleyard Lees’ largest clients and the firm’s sector-specialist teams that support those clients.
Richard also leads on relationship building with new and existing contacts, bringing together his wide technological and client bases to help identify IP issues and trends, and related solutions and opportunities, and using all of this as a basis for structuring short, medium and longer-term IP strategies.
Richard really enjoys listening to clients, and solving their problems.
Comments:
"Richard Bray responds promptly, demonstrating a strong sense of efficiency and reliability. He excels at offering professional insights and consistently delivers results that meet—and often exceed—client expectations. Moreover, he is thoughtful and approachable, always taking the time to listen to clients with genuine patience and care."


