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Kevin Scott, Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

Dr Kevin Scott works for Philips Intellectual Property & Standards, where he leads a global team of licensing professionals in licensing Philips patents to third parties in technical areas including telecommunications (UMTS/LTE/5G) and television. Dr Scott has over 20 years’ experience in licensing standard essential patents (SEPs) to companies large and small and has extensive experience in multinational litigation of SEPs. Before joining the IP profession in 1997, Dr Scott worked at Philips research laboratories in the creation of computer simulation programs.

Dr Scott’s technical background is in electrical engineering (with a PhD from University College London) and physics (with a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University). He is a UK Chartered Patent Attorney and a European Patent Attorney, a Council member of the UK’s IP Federation, and is included as a top practitioner in IAM’s Strategy 300, 2024.

Belinda Gascoyne, IBM EMEA & AP

Belinda is Senior IP Law Counsel at IBM where she heads up the IP Law teams in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific (AP), which together provide all aspects of IP Law support for IBM in all geographies outside the Americas. Belinda is a Chartered and European Patent Attorney with a background in Physics and has wide practical experience in drafting, filing and prosecuting patent applications as well as in IP strategy, patent management and copyright issues. Before joining IBM in 2004, Belinda worked in private practice in London.

Belinda is also actively involved in UK and European IP policy matters and is a former President, and a Council member of, the IP Federation, and has been named for several years running by Managing IP as one of its “Corporate IP Stars”.

Dan Wood, MSD

Dan joined Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC (MSD) in 2023 as a member of their IP Group and advises on all kinds of issues relating to patents. Prior to joining MSD, Dan worked in private practice for six years as a European Patent Attorney. Dan’s technical background is in chemistry (he holds an MChem from the University of Reading and a PhD from the University of Cambridge) and he works on patents relating to small-molecule pharmaceuticals, antibodies, vaccines, manufacturing processes, and medical devices.

Dr Bobby Mukherjee, CIPA Immediate Past President | BAE Systems plc

Dr Bobby Mukherjee, Chief Counsel, IP & Technology Law – BAE Systems plc and Past President (2012-2014) of the IP Federation. He was the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) President for 2025. He previously served and currently sits on CIPA Council, and chaired the CIPA Internal Governance Committee in its formative stage.

Bobby is a qualified UK and European patent attorney with over 28 years’ experience of IP gained in private practice and at BAE Systems plc. He is currently the Head of IP (2009 -) at BAE Systems plc (a FTSE 30 company), which has one of the largest in-house IP teams in the UK.

Bobby has been named a Corporate IP Star by Managing Intellectual Property every year since 2015.

Sarah Palmer, Syngenta

Sarah is a Senior Patent Attorney for Syngenta’s Crop Protection Business and lead attorney for the team in the UK.   An experienced professional who has worked solely in-house for 24 years with Syngenta and legacy companies. During that time she has worked in a variety of technical areas,  providing holistic IP advice relating to the company’s biotechnology-based, chemical and simple mechanical inventions.  She has experience not only in drafting, prosecution  and freedom-to-operate analysis on the global stage, but also in IP portfolio and lifecycle management, IP rights enforcement and multi-jurisdictional litigation.