Midlands Regional Meeting 2023

Audience

Programme & Speakers

Thursday 25 May 2023

• 12:30 - 13:30 - Registration & Networking Lunch
• 13:30 - 13:40 - Introduction from the chair

  Speakers

  

  Dr Anna Molony, Co-founder & Director, Two IP

  Dr Anna Molony, Co-founder & Director, Two IP

  Anna co-founded her first patent firm, Chapman Molony, in 2003. After almost 10 years’ building Chapman Molony, she decided she wanted a better work-life balance, so she sold out of Chapman Molony and set up Ingenium IP. In 2020, just as the global pandemic hit, Anna decided that it was time to provide a vehicle for other patent attorneys to enjoy the work-life balance she had achieved. So she evolved Ingenium IP into Two IP, a ‘new breed consultancy model’ patent and trade mark firm, which enables consultant attorneys to work for their own clients under the Two IP brand and within Two IP’s ecosystem of back office, patent formalities and business support functions.

• 13:40 - 14:25 - Patent litigation: Initial steps and choice of forum

  Speakers

  

  Michael Carter, Gowling WLG

  Michael Carter, Gowling WLG

  Michael is a Director in Gowling WLG’s intellectual property practice, based in Birmingham. He has extensive experience managing patent and design litigation in the English courts (from IPEC to the High Court) and coordinating international patent litigation. In his role as Head of Automotive IP (UK) Michael also has experience of advising clients on transactional issues and the development of IP & innovation strategies more generally, particularly in the automotive and engineering sectors.

• 14:25 - 15:10 - Future changes at the IPO

  Speakers

  

  Simeon Bowen, IPO

  Simeon Bowen, IPO

  Simeon is Communications Lead for the One IPO Transformation Programme. He has worked in public sector communications for over 10 years, having previously worked in a variety of comms roles at the Office for National Statistics and UK Statistics Authority. Simeon joined IPO two years ago and acts as a key link between IPO developers and customers. In his spare time, Simeon is an avid gamer and a Tae Kwon-do instructor.

• 15:10 - 15:40 - Refreshment Break
• 15:40 - 16:25 - IP theft by criminals

  Speakers

  

  Helen Barge, Risk Evolves

  Helen Barge, Risk Evolves

  Helen is the friendly face of risk management and compliance. Her award-winning consultancy, Risk Evolves, helps growing businesses to realise the benefits of effective risk management and the value of compliance with data privacy, information security, H&S and Environment Social and Governance (ESG). This is delivered with a pragmatic, no jargon approach . Helen’s a great believer that consultants should ‘practice what they preach’ and the organisation has achieved a number of certifications itself and is one of just 1200 BCorp companies in the UK.

  As well as supporting clients with compliance and risk management projects, Helen is a popular speaker and trainer. She also represents the needs of growing British businesses on several committees, including the FSB and the West Midlands Cyber Resilience Centre.

• 16:25 - 17:10 - Litigation funding

  Speakers

  

  Tom Carver, White & Black Legal

  Tom Carver, White & Black Legal

  Tom Carver specialises in intellectual property law and has substantial multi-jurisdictional patent and design right litigation experience. His experience includes two cases that went to the UK Supreme Court. He is recommended by Legal 500 and in IAM Patent 1000, and an “IP Star” in the Managing Intellectual Property IP Stars Handbook. Named as an expert on the China IPR SME Helpdesk, he spent three years in Guangzhou, China, advising on enforcement of intellectual property rights in China and general commercial matters. Tom is also member of the Advisory Council for the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University, London.

  Corporate & Technology Lawyers | White & Black Limited (wablegal.com)

• 17:10 - 17:20 - Closing remarks from the chair

  Speakers

  

  Dr Anna Molony, Co-founder & Director, Two IP

  Dr Anna Molony, Co-founder & Director, Two IP

  Anna co-founded her first patent firm, Chapman Molony, in 2003. After almost 10 years’ building Chapman Molony, she decided she wanted a better work-life balance, so she sold out of Chapman Molony and set up Ingenium IP. In 2020, just as the global pandemic hit, Anna decided that it was time to provide a vehicle for other patent attorneys to enjoy the work-life balance she had achieved. So she evolved Ingenium IP into Two IP, a ‘new breed consultancy model’ patent and trade mark firm, which enables consultant attorneys to work for their own clients under the Two IP brand and within Two IP’s ecosystem of back office, patent formalities and business support functions.

• 17:20 - 19:00 - Drinks reception with canapes