Angela is Managing Director at Key Patent Innovations Limited.

 

Prior to joining Key Patent Innovations, Angela was Vice President of Licensing and Acquisitions at Atlantic IP Services, Ltd with responsibilities including licensing, portfolio acquisition, patent prosecution and litigation support.  Previously Angela was Senior Patent Counsel at Longitude Licensing, where she was responsible for the management of Longitude's portfolio of 3,500 semiconductor and storage patents, as well as leading the team responsible for prosecution and development of Longitude's patent applications globally.

 

Prior to her role at Longitude Licensing, Angela worked in private practice in top tier firms both in Ireland and the UK. She has extensive experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications relating to display technology, semiconductor technology, data processing, coding, encryption and industry standards in the ICT sector. Angela also has substantial experience in both challenging and defending European patents during opposition proceedings and in providing infringement and validity opinions.

 

Angela is a certified Irish, UK and European Patent Attorney and also has a certificate in Intellectual Property Litigation (UK). She graduated first in her class in Electronic Engineering in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland where she went on to earn a PhD in digital signal processing. She spent one year of her PhD working in the École Normale Supérieure Cachan, Paris, France. After completing her PhD she spent two years working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan. Angela’s research focused on the use of array signal processing for acoustical source location and tracking.