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Keith Wood, Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds

Keith is a seasoned intellectual property practitioner with more than 25 years of experience in U.S. and international patent law. His practice focuses on patent prosecution, post-grant proceedings, and strategic intellectual property counseling, with particular emphasis on Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has experience across a broad range of technologies, including semiconductor manufacturing, graphene-based materials, microfluidics, medical devices, optics, sensor systems, and clean energy. Keith advises start-ups, universities, and multinational companies on building and managing patent portfolios aligned with long-term research, development, and commercialization strategies.

Phil Mazoki, Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds

Phil practices in patent prosecution, IP strategy, and portfolio management in the electrical engineering and software fields, including technologies such as simulation, 3D modeling, cybersecurity, machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), and electro-mechanical systems. He has extensive experience building patent portfolios for modeling and simulation technologies across industries, as well as for cybersecurity innovations. Philip also assists clients with trademark prosecution and supports patent and trademark litigation matters.

Julia Gwilt, Appleyard Lees

Julia Gwilt is a partner at Appleyard Lees and specialises in software inventions.

She has had a passion for training for over 15 years.  As one of the patent attorney members who established the Patent Examination Board (PEB), she oversaw the UK professional examinations for over six years until her term ended in 2020.  She is now chair of the epi Profession Education Committee which oversees training and other aspects of the EQE for trainee European patent attorneys.  Together with other members of the PEC, she has been heavily involved in the proposal for a new digital EQE.