Contact: ppiotrowicz@vennershipley.co.uk

Pawel is a Chartered and European patent attorney. He joined Venner Shipley having previously worked as a researcher for a major multinational electronics company developing memory devices.

He represents a wide variety of clients in the high technology sector including a significant number of private inventors and start-up companies and clients located in the UK, Europe, Japan, the US and the Gulf States.

Pawel specialises in the fields of physics, electronics and computer software, and also in inventions which are multi-disciplinary in nature. His areas of expertise include semiconductor devices and processing, nanotechnology, spintronics, printed electronics, RFID devices, telecommunications, computer networks, quantum information processing, computer simulation, optical systems, sensors and medical devices.

He handles applications, oppositions and appeals at the European Patent Office and the UK Intellectual Property Office. He is familiar with overseas practice, particularly the US, Japan, Korea and China, obtaining protection for his clients via local associates.

Pawel is regularly invited by companies and universities to lecture on intellectual property and to hold intellectual property ‘clinics’.  He has been reported in the press and given radio interviews on intellectual property.

In 2006, he took the lead in opening Venner Shipley’s office in Cambridge.

Professional Memberships

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
Member of the European Patent Institute

Education

Pawel graduated from the University of Manchester with a first class honours degree in Physics. He was awarded a PhD in Physics from Cambridge University following research into mesoscopic effects in III-V semiconductor devices. Pawel also has a certificate in Intellectual Property Law from Queen Mary, University of London.

Recommendations

Pawel has been specifically singled out for recommendation in this years Legal 500 Directory who describe him as "knowledgeable" and "hardworking".