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Katherine Brown
Senior Associate

Katherine Brown

UPC Representative

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  • English
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Katherine is a UK and European patent attorney with a PhD in quantum computing. She has a range of experience prosecuting patents in the UK and Europe for a wide variety of clients. She specialises in computer related inventions and has previously worked on patents in the aerospace and oil industry. She is now putting her PhD in quantum computing to good use and prosecuting a range of patents in that area as well as working on computer related inventions in general.  

Katherine previously has previous experience in private practice where she qualified as a UK Patent Attorney and a European Patent Attorney. Before becoming a patent attorney, she studied physics at Durham University before completing a PhD in quantum computing at The University of Leeds and a postdoc, also in quantum computing, at Louisiana State University. 

Relevant experience

  • Microsoft on prosecuting patent applications.
  • Prosecuting of patents in the aerospace industry.
  • Drafting patents for a range of small clients. 

Memberships & Roles

  • Member, the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys 
  • Associate Member, the Institute of Physics 

Education

  • 2018 – Chartered Patent Attorney (UK)
  • 2017 – European Patent Attorney 
  • 2011 – PhD, Quantum Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds
  • 2007 – MSci, Physics, Durham University, Durham

Insights by Katherine

Yan LeCun in conversation with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI APPG)

30 Jan 2026 7 min read

CMS Intellectual Property Webinar Series 2023

28 Jun 2023

Court of Appeal divided on patent office treatment of AI applications

28 Sep 2021 11 min read

EPO approach to examining computer implemented inventions

14 Jun 2021 5 min read
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