Leonard Wright

Leo  advises clients in a broad range of industries with a particular focus on medical devices, computer-implemented inventions, and mechanical engineering.

Leo has lots of experience of drafting and prosecuting patent applications across these technical areas. Leo regularly provides commercially relevant and practical IP advice for startups and SMEs and manages complex IP portfolios for large corporations.

Leo also has experience handling oppositions before the European Patent Office (EPO), especially relating to medical devices.

Leo holds an undergraduate master’s degree in physics (MSci) from the University of Birmingham. His degree covered a wide range of topics including mechanics, cosmology, computing, electronics, lasers, and atomic physics. For his master’s project, Leo researched and developed a new, compact design of a magneto-optical trap using laser cooling and magnetic fields to produce cold atoms.

Leo has recently been involved in handling offensive and defensive oppositions at the EPO. Leo has also advised on a number of litigation cases at the new Unified Patent Court (UPC).