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Greg joined the firm as a Technical Assistant in 2007, shortly after graduating from Keele University with a degree in Physics with Astrophysics, and he is based in our Munich office. Greg is a fully qualified European and UK Chartered Patent Attorney. He is also a European Trade Mark Attorney.

Greg became a Senior Associate in 2019 and was made Partner in 2022.

Trevor Cook is Of Counsel at Bird & Bird LLP. He is an English solicitor with over 45 years’ experience of intellectual property litigation. He was a partner in Bird & Bird LLP from 1981 to 2013 and in Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP from 2014 to 2022. He chairs the British Copyright Council, was for several years President of the UK group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), and is on the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) list of arbitrators.  In addition to countless articles and book chapters Mr Cook has authored the following books: A User’s Guide to Patents; Pharmaceuticals Biotechnology and the Law; EU Intellectual Property Law; A European Perspective as to the Extent to Which Experimental Use, and Certain Other, Defences to Patent Infringement, Apply to Differing Types of Research and The Protection of Regulatory Data in the Pharmaceutical and Other Sectors. He is co-author of Practical Intellectual Property Precedents and International Intellectual Property Arbitration. He is a general editor of The Modern Law of Patents and is editor of Sterling on World Copyright Law; Trade Secret Protection – A Global Guide and The Patent Litigation Law Review.  He is a contributor to the CIPA Guide to the Patents Act and the European Patents Handbook.

Dr Coreena Brinck has over 20 years of experience as a UK and European patent attorney. For much of her career as a patent attorney she worked in-house in the communications industry holding senior roles at both British Telecommunications and Nokia Technologies. She returned to private practice in 2017.

Coreena currently works as a fractional head of intellectual property for a Swedish artificial general intelligence start-up and part-time in private practice as a patent attorney consultant for Two-IP Ltd where she mostly handles interdisciplinary and/or complex systems technology involving computer implemented inventions, and some optical and green tech related technology. She is an NED IP advisor for an EV charging cable management company and is a cofounder of The Brinck Sanders consultancy which offers support and advice to firms and individuals adapting to AI in their workplace.

When not working, Coreena likes to relax in the garden with her two dogs and her husband.

Debbie is a Senior Patent Attorney at Granta IP Services Ltd. She is a member of Council and Chair of the Education Committee. She is a Co-Editor of the Patents Training Manual and currently working on the development and delivery of the Advanced Patent Paralegal Course.

Simeon is Communications Lead for the One IPO Transformation Programme. He has worked in public sector communications for 15 years, having previously worked in a variety of comms roles at the Office for National Statistics and UK Statistics Authority. Simeon joined the IPO in 2020 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.