We are delighted to announce our most recent patent and trade mark attorney registrations within the James & Wells’ team.
Dr Taylor Smallwood in our Brisbane office and Dr Sam Fraser in our Christchurch office are both now registered patent attorneys (Australia & New Zealand) and registered trade mark attorneys (Australia).
Taylor joined the Brisbane Patents Team in 2021. She previously worked at the University of Queensland as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow since 2018. Her experience at UQ included a collaborative project with international pharmaceutical company, Grünenthal, to develop novel, non-opioid drug therapies derived from cone snail venom for the treatment of chronic neuropathic pain. This offered her extensive experience in peptide chemistry and structural biology.
With a Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Hons) and PhD focused on “Mining helminth secretions for new classes of immune suppressing drugs”, Taylor’s background and research experience in immunology and therapeutic development supports our dedicated Life Sciences patents team. Her work focuses on assisting the team with patent prosecution, drafting patent specifications, oppositions, searching and technology landscaping.
Sam has a PhD in Chemistry from the Australian National University and undertook post-doctoral research at Yonsei University in South Korea. Sam has a background in organic synthesis, biological chemistry, protein engineering and molecular biology. His PhD research included the synthesis of unsaturated aliphatic amino acids and their evaluation as bioisosteres of canonical amino acids during cell-free protein synthesis. His post-doctoral research involved evaluating new methods to improve hybridisation capture-based target enrichment for Next-Generation Sequencing, and work towards the development of a combinatorial peptide synthesis platform utilizing ink-jet printing.
Prior to joining James & Wells, Sam spent over two-and-a-half years working as a Patent Examiner for the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ) covering subject matter including: antibody-drug conjugates, oligonucleotides, mammalian cell-differentiation methods, pharmaceuticals, agricultural and food compositions, chemical processes, and steel coatings.
