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Sector experience

Artificial intelligence and machine learning

Food and beverage

Consumer goods and retail

• Beauty
• Fashion
• Luxury goods
• Household goods

Trade marks

• Mechanical products
• Services
• Telecommunications
• Financial services
• Cosmetics and perfumery
• Consumer goods

Chemicals

• Agrochemicals
• Catalysts
• Dispersiones y coloides
• Lubricants
• Polymers and plastics

Materials

• Advanced materials
• Composite materials
• Metallurgy and alloys
• Nanotechnology

Industrial manufacturing and processing

• Packaging
• Polymers and plastics
• Printing tech
• Additive manufacturing
• Coatings
• Construction

Electronics and electrical devices

• Testing systems, control systems, signal processing
• Computer and IT architecture and system design
• Medical devices
• Optics
• Robotics
• Scientific instruments
• Semiconductor devices
• Wearable tech and human interfaces

Communications and networks

• Oceanography, marine
• Cloud computing
• Internet of things (IOT)
• Wired and wireless networks

Energy and green technologies

• Water, oil and gas, nuclear, fusion, fission
• Clean air
• Fuel cells and battery technology
• Renewables and recycling
• Biofuels

Automotive

• Autonomous vehicles
• Electric vehicles
• Engines

Aerospace

• Commercial aviation
• Defence and security
• Space and satellites
• Unmanned aerial vehicles

Pharmaceuticals

• Drug delivery
• Generic market entry
• Medicinal chemistry
• Methods of production and synthesis
• Personalised medicine/disease biomarkers
• Pharmaceutical formulations
• Polymorphs
• Small molecule pharmaceuticals
• Supplementary protection certificates (SPCs)

Biotechnology

• Next generation sequencing
• Women’s health products
• Vaccinology (e.g. viral vectors; mRNA vaccines)
• Therapeutic antibodies
• Synthetic biology
• Stem cell therapies
• Recombinant protein production and purification
• Personalised medicine/disease biomarkers
• Nucleic acid synthesis
• Supplementary protection certificates (SPCs)
• Immuno-oncology (e.g. checkpoint inhibitors; modified T cells)
• GM crops
• Genomic and molecular tools and methods
• Gene editing (e.g. CRISPR)
• Drug delivery
• Biosimilars
• Antibody manufacture and formulation
• Antibody engineering

Medical devices and diagnostics 

• Immuno-oncology
• Artificial intelligence
• Devices
• Diagnostic instruments
• Digital health
• Drug delivery
• In vitro diagnostics
• Medtech

Computing and software

• Digital assistants, virtual assistants and software agents
• Multimedia, audio/video processing and animation
• Metaverse, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR)
• Data management and storage, databases and data compression
• Data and software security, cryptography and digital rights management (DRM)
• Software applications and systems, mobile applications, user interfaces
• Natural language processing
• Search engines
• Robotic process automation
• Quantum computing
• Motor capture
• Machine vision
• Fintech and adtech
• Computer games
• Communications and networks
• Blockchain and distributed ledgers
• Bioinformatics
• Signal processing
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning