Fiona Fyfe

Fiona Fyfe has more than 30 years of experience in the intellectual property profession. After completing her honours degree in Microbiology and Genetics, she worked at the Institute of Virology, Glasgow, a position funded by the Medical Research Council. This entailed research into vaccines and in particular research to produce an improved vaccine for the treatment of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV).

Fiona's core area of expertise is biotechnology, as well as related fields such as virology, microbiology, and genetics. She’s also an expert in the medical field, including medical devices such as orthopaedic implants and prosthetics, wound management technologies, biochemistry, and immunology.

Fiona has substantial experience in drafting and prosecuting patents relating to veterinary formulations, feed formulations and additives (for both human and animal consumption), fermentation processing, plasmid and phage technology. She primarily works as a patent attorney but is also a qualified trade mark and design attorney.

Fiona has gained valuable knowledge and experience of a wide variety of intellectual property proceedings during her time in the field. These include oppositions and appeals before the European Patent Office, patent restoration cases before the UKIPO and infringement and validity opinion work. Her expertise also includes preparing and prosecuting designs and trade marks relating to the pharmaceutical and veterinary industries.

Fiona has carried out work relating to lesser-known plant variety rights, as well as filing and prosecuting supplementary protection certificates. She’s a member of Murgitroyd’s Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) and regulatory team.

Having travelled widely in Latin America, Fiona takes a particular interest in their IP laws. She has worked extensively with several Latin American countries and companies to obtain IP protection both locally and in Europe.

Fiona’s clients vary from universities to multinationals. She also acts as a mentor to final-year students at the University of Manchester who are studying MChem (Hons) Chemistry with Patent Law and are undertaking patent law projects.

Fiona is based in the Glasgow Office.