Paul is a seasoned and highly respected European and UK Patent Attorney, having worked not just client side and in private practice, but also as a European Patent Examiner, including serving on Opposition Divisions at the European Patent Office in Munich, Germany. This has given him a unique perspective on the entire patent process.

Having obtained a physics degree from Bristol University, Paul then spent eight years working as a physicist in the research and development fields of signal processing, electro-optics, lasers, displays, and communications systems. He then moved to work at the European Patent Office.

Paul then “switched sides” and practised in-house for one of the US’s leading telecoms corporations and then for a high-profile London private practice with a particular reputation for obtaining software and business method-related patents.

Paul has extensive drafting, prosecution, and opposition experience in many advanced technologies covering diverse areas from mobile telecoms, multimedia, social media, Internet, decision-making networks, information processing, software patents, business methods, encryption, pattern recognition, optics, photonics to sensors, and more.

Paul’s entrepreneurial spirit and passion for invention was one of the forces that drove him to establish Openshaw & Co., bringing his extensive and holistic experience of the entire patent process for the benefit of clients.

Since its founding, Openshaw & Co. has gone from strength to strength, with year-on-year growth, fostering and building a world-class team of Intellectual Property experts. The founding principles and spirit that Paul established are intrinsic to how we work, and that Paul continues to nurture within our team today.