Natasha Haley

Natasha Haley

Patent Paralegal Team Leader - North East & North Central England

Natasha Haley is a skilled professional with experience as a Patent Paralegal. Currently serving as the Patent Paralegal Team Leader for the North East & North Central England.

Natasha’s day-to-day responsibilities revolve around maintaining effective relationships with clients and foreign associates worldwide and liaising with other department Heads. Her well-established communication skills, honed through her educational and professional experience, enable her to liaise with clients and foreign associates, as well as communicating directly with patent offices worldwide, ensuring the smooth progress of filings, responses, and other crucial aspects of the patent process.

As a team leader, Natasha manages the day-to-day management of a team of Paralegals and patent support team members across for the North East & North Central England.

Natasha is experienced in all aspects of paralegal responsibilities – preparing and filing formalities documents, reporting and monitoring deadlines, producing IP schedules including cost forecasts.  Natasha’s experience extends to supporting the onboarding of new clients and the standardisation of work in the Patent Paralegal department. She manages patent and design portfolios, liaising closely with attorneys, as well as managing co-ordination with outside counsel and clients to ensure that clients’ IP prosecution needs are implemented in an accurate and timely manner.

Further tasks include providing IP portfolio schedules, handling transfers of rights, preparing cost estimates for assignment recordal programmes and attending to the recordal of assignments worldwide. She also monitors and provides cited documents for Information Disclosure Statements and prepares Form 3 information for Indian patent applications.

Natasha is also a member of Murgitroyd’s Trailblazer Team a committee focussed on colleague engagement and living into our company values of trust, unity and confidence. The Trailblazers Group organises initiatives throughout the year to support our ESG goals.

Natasha is based in our York Office.


  • CIPA approved Certificate in Patent Administration
  • BA History and History of Art from The University of York

Key contributor to the paralegal team recognised as Highly Recommended by WIPR

WIPR UK Patent Rankings 2025

Key contributor to the paralegal team recognised in the Top Patent Law Firm Rankings

The Patent Lawyer Magazine - 2024 & 2025

Key contributor to the paralegal team ranked Bronze in IAM 1000 2025 Firm rankings.

IAM 1000 2025

Key contributor to the paralegal team recognised in the Financial Times top European Patent Law Firm rankings since 2019

Financial Times European Leading Patent Law Firms - 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 & 2025

Murgitroyd’s commitment to supporting professional and personal development allowed me to progress to Senior Patent Paralegal quickly and, shortly after, Team Leader for the Northeast and North Central teams.

Natasha Haley, Senior Patent Paralegal, York

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