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Ian Weaver – Maiwald

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Dr. Ian Weaver

Partner

Irish Patent Agent

Chartered Patent Attorney (UK)

European Patent Attorney

M.Sc. Optoelectronics and Optical Information Processing

Ian has many years of experience in intellectual property law. His main areas of expertise include drafting patent applications, obtaining, securing and enforcing patents, conducting opposition and appeal proceedings as well as the assessment of third-party property rights and worldwide portfolio management. He gained particular expertise in electro-optical systems through his work for a British aerospace and defence company. He has also developed the technology and digital patent portfolio of an international pharmaceutical group and played a key role in shaping the strategic direction of patent protection for these technologies.

His technical focus is therefore on physics, aerospace, electrical systems, optics and optoelectronics, imaging systems, telecommunications, high-tech consumer goods, diagnostic systems and digitalization.

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since 2019
Partner at Maiwald
2017 - 2019
Senior Patent Counsel at Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
2017 - 2019
Of Counsel at Maiwald
2015 - 2017
Patent attorney at Maiwald
2013 - 2015
Patent attorney at a UK IP law firm in London
2011 - 2013
Trainee patent attorney at a UK IP law firm in London
2007 - 2010
Intellectual Property Manager at a UK company in Farnborough
2005 - 2007
Capability Group Leader at a UK defence and aerospace company in Farnborough
1999 - 2005
Senior Principal Engineer at a UK company in Hayes
1995 - 2005
Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Pure and Applied Physics of The Queen’s University of Belfast
1989 - 1991
Engineer at a UK aerospace company in Lancashire

2022
Admitted to practice as Irish Patent Agent
2016
Admitted to practice as European Patent Attorney
2014
Admitted to practice as UK Patent Attorney
1992 - 1996
PhD in the field of laser and laser/plasma physics from the Department of Pure and Applied Physics of The Queen’s University of Belfast
1991 - 1992
Master’s degree in optoelectronics and optical information processing at the Department of Pure and Applied Physics of The Queen’s University of Belfast

  • Patent prosecution and portfolio management
  • Filing strategies and drafting patent applications
  • Freedom-to-operate and validity analysis
  • Opposition and nullity proceedings
  • Patent litigation
  • Drafting of contracts

  • Recommended in Legal 500 Deutschland 2021

  • Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (UK)
  • Association of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys (IE)
  • epi
  • EUIPO
  • German Patent Attorney Association

  • German
  • English