Helen L Henderson, BSc

Helen is a trainee patent attorney and has a wide variety of experience in UK and worldwide patent filing and prosecution. While principally specialising in life sciences and biotechnology, Helen has also been involved in drafting patent applications in the mechanical field, including processes for the thermal treatment of waste, methods of manufacture of carbon-fibre reinforced polymers and pharmaceutical packaging. Helen's experience also includes filing Petitions to Make Special under US law and preparing Freedom to Operate reports for proposed new products as well as both UK and European trade mark filing and prosecution.

Helen has recently completed a PhD in molecular biology with Bristol University where she wrote her thesis on molecular, cellular and endocrine mechanisms underlying the intrapituitary control of fertility. During her studies Helen presented work at several international research conferences and has recently published a paper on gonadotrophin receptor expression in the pituitary gland. For her undergraduate studies Helen was awarded a first class honours degree by Bristol University, where she specialised in biomedical sciences and neuroendocrinology.  

email: h l h e n d e r s o n @ s c h l i c h . c o . u k