Robert Stephen
Patent Attorney, Co-Chair Life Sciences & Healthcare Sector
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Robert is a European and Chartered UK Patent Attorney with nearly 30 years' experience, qualified to act before the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC), as well as the UKIPO.
He has been ranked as Band 1 in the Chambers Legal directory for 10 years, one of only 20 patent attorneys in the UK to be ranked in this way. He is a Legal 500 leading partner, a recommended individual in Juve 2024, IAM 2024, and is head of the CMS patent attorney team, which has been Tier 1 ranked by Legal 500 for a number of years.
Robert has a busy practice focusing on EPO opposition work (having been involved in 70+ oppositions/ appeals), counselling and prosecution, all of which he is well known for. He is also co-founder of the SPC Blog, which leads the debate on issues relating to patent term extension in Europe.
Robert has a first-class degree in biochemistry and a D.Phil. in molecular genetics from Oxford University, and completed the University of Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme in 2025. He has particular expertise in inventions in biochemistry, biotechnology, genetics and immunology, including protein- and peptide-based medicines, vaccines, antibodies, nucleic acid-based medicines, cell and gene therapies, transgenic animal platforms, CRISPR/gene editing technologies, microbiome technologies and diagnostics.
