Our People 

Dr Daniel Bates, B.Sc (Hons), M.Sc, EngD, CPA, EPA

Dan is a Chartered Patent Attorney, a European Patent Attorney, a European Trade Mark Attorney and a European Design Attorney. Dan is also a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, and a member of the Institute of Physics.

Prior to founding Ogive Intellectual Property Ltd, Dan qualified as a Patent Attorney at a large Patent and Trade Mark Attorney private practice in the Midlands. Prior to working in private practice he was employed by Marconi Communications Ltd (now Ericsson) as part of the in-house Intellectual Property counsel team. In this role he gained experience of managing large portfolios of patents and extensive experience of patents in telecommunications technologies including optics, software, electronic devices, network architecture, computer implemented inventions, and processor technologies.

Before entering the patent profession Dan was employed by Airbus UK Ltd and Rover Group Ltd in research and professional engineering positions where he gained extensive experience of cutting edge technology in the automotive and aerospace industries. During his time at Airbus Dan worked for the structural testing and non-destructive testing departments, and developed new non-destructive testing techniques for aircraft wing inspection specialising in eddy current, ultrasonic, thermal and X-ray inspection techniques. During his time at Rover he worked as a researcher into lightweight vehicle technology.

Dan has a Doctorate of Engineering, a Masters degree in Engineering Business Management, and an Honours degree in Physics. He is also the inventor for three patent families on new non-destructive testing procedures which resulted from his Doctorate studies. Dan also has comprehensive experience of lasers, semiconductors, macro-molecular physics, particle physics, acoustics, atmospheric dynamics, mechanical engineering devices, and advanced composite materials.

Matthew Allen, B.Sc, M.Sc, EPA, ETMA

Matthew obtained a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Queen Mary College, University of London, and a Masters degree in Management of Intellectual Property Law, before joining one of the top UK firms of patent and trademark attorneys. Matthew is a registered European Patent Attorney, a European Design and Trademark Attorney, and an Associate Member of the UK Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), and runs his own practice as well as acting as a consultant to Ogive Intellectual Property Ltd.

Matthew deals with a wide range of mechanical engineering technology, and technology in neighbouring industries, including high performance brakes and clutches in the automotive industry, aircraft fuselage, wing and landing gear arrangements, and fuelling systems, in the aeronautical industry, mechanical inserts and fasteners, and fastener installation processes, advanced material applications, environmental technology, and consumer and household products. Matthew also has experience patenting medical products, and judges the Omnicompete Medical Technology Challenge.

Matthew has experience of numerous IP procedures, including hearings and patent revocation proceedings before the UK IP Office, interviewing an expert witness, preparing transfers of IP following a company acquisition and recording the new IP owner, dealing with IP infringers including negotiating cease and desist and settlements for clients, ex parte and inter partes proceedings before the European Patent Office, and opposition proceedings before the USPTO TTAB, and OHIM.

David Warrilow, MSc(Chem), MSc(IP), CPA, EPA, ETMA

David joined the profession in 2001, and worked with major firms of patent and trademark attorneys in London until 2009, before joining London IP Ltd to become a co-ordinating attorney.

David has advised and represented a diverse range of clients, from lone inventors to a variety of multinationals (including several household names) in all aspects of intellectual property. His practice includes patents, trademarks, copyright and designs, and although his technical background is in chemistry, he has gained extensive experience of patenting mechanical inventions.

His experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications varies from drug-delivery systems to thermal transfer technology, vehicle parts, games, chemical synthesis & analysis equipment and methods, paper coatings, medical devices, building equipment, product packaging, construction methods, various novel home furnishings, ball-bearing races, to name but a few.

He has co-ordinated international trademark filing for a number of very well known companies, and represented numerous applicants before the UK and European trademark authorities at all stages from filing through to opposition.

David graduated from Birmingham University with a Masters degree in chemistry before obtaining a further Masters degree in Management of Intellectual Property from Queen Mary University, London. David has now set up his own Intellectual Property practice and is also a consultant for Ogive Intellectual Property Ltd.