Patent Insurance: What your clients need to know

David Bloom, Safeguard IP

David is an intellectual property (IP) expert. As a qualified solicitor, he has over 15 years’ experience advising clients on the exploitation and protection of IP. With a special interest in patent and trade mark infringement actions he represented clients ranging from start ups to large multinationals.

With first-hand experience of how investment in IP can be undermined by copycats and predatory competitors, David left the legal profession in 2014 to establish Safeguard iP, the UKs only dedicated IP Insurance Broker. His clients include innovative business of all sizes looking to protect their investment in IP. David writes and speaks regularly on the benefits of IP insurance, especially for the SME market and has worked with the UKIPO who are actively seeking to encourage UK businesses to put IP insurance in place.

Simon Chalkey, Icen Risk Limited

Simon is a consultant to Icen, working with the underwriting team on IP transaction risks. Separately, he is a lawyer with more than 30 years’ experience in private practice at leading law firms advising on IP law and commercial IP transactions (particularly IP licensing and technology transfer deals) and works with clients to help them develop their IP strategies. He has experience advising across many different business sectors as diverse as fashion and luxury, interactive entertainment, software, consumer goods, construction and engineering to name a few. He is listed in the highly-respected IAM (Intellectual Asset Management) Strategy 300 Guide – The World’s leading IP strategists 2023, as well as in other leading legal peer review guides for his expertise in IP transactional legal work.

Lewis Parle, Icen Risk Limited

Lewis is a qualified solicitor and leads Icen’s transactional IP practice which insures buyers and sellers in M&A transactions involving IP rich businesses, distressed IP sales, IP asset sales and identified/contingent IP risks of all types. With 10 years in the insurance sector, he has created a number of market first IP liability and transactional IP liability insurance products, particularly for businesses developing/selling cutting edge technology, interactive entertainment and fashion. He has provided risk transfer solutions for complex IP problems for some of the world’s best known companies to help unlock negotiations and enable deals to happen.