Mr Naoise Gaffney

Mr Naoise Gaffney, M.A. (Dub), M.Sc. (Dub), M.Sc (QMUL) is an expert on international patent law. He is Of Counsel and UPC Director at Bristows LLP and is admitted to practice as a lawyer in Washington State, as a litigator before Europe's Unified Patent Court and as a patent attorney before the European Patent Office, the UK Intellectual Property Office, the US Patent and Trademark Office and the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland. In addition to spending a number of years in private practice, working for patent law firms in Ireland, Australia and Japan, prior roles have included general counsel and head of IP at a gaming hardware scaleup, head of IP at a Nasdaq-listed biotech and head of patent development at Intellectual Ventures, owner of one of the world’s largest patent portfolios. He is chair of the IP Network at Ibec, Ireland’s foremost business lobby group and is a named inventor on over 20 international patent applications.