Claim drafting: My claim is rejected for missing an essential element - Obtaining an EP Patent - A crash course for the US applicant #1
Focus: Claim drafting – My claim is rejected for missing an essential element
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Peter Oosting is a French Patent Attorney at Plasseraud IP. He is active in several fields of chemistry: pharmaceuticals, electrochemistry, cosmetics, medicinal chemistry, organic chemistry, polymers and biotechnology. Peter has also developed expertise in nanotechnology. He assists his clients in drafting patent applications, examination procedures, and carries out patentability and freedom-to-operate studies.
Raquel Lopez Garcia is a European Patent Attorney at Plasseraud IP. She also passed the examination for registration as a patent agent before the USPTO. She is involved in the drafting, prosecution and defence of patents in the field of chemistry and, in particular, in organic chemistry. Raquel started her professional career as a R&D Scientist at Procter & Gamble (Brussels) in the field of detergent formulation (surfactants systems and photobleach). Raquel then acquired experience in the food industry at Quest International (Naarden, The Netherlands).
Gaëlle Windal is a French and European Patent Attorney in the Paris office of Plasseraud IP, where she advises clients in the IT sector on the development and management of their patent portfolio.
Delphine Pouchain is a French and European Patent Attorney at Plasseraud IP.
She has a PhD in organic/biochemistry and worked for six years in the UK in an academic laboratory (University of Edinburgh) in collaboration with industrial partners in the field of high throughput screening of peptide libraries.
She assists clients in the management and defence of their patent portfolio in the fields of chemistry (medicinal, organic, cosmetics, environmental, biomolecular chemistry, semiochemistry) and biotechnology (vaccines, diagnostics, therapeutic treatments).