Maureen Kelly

Maureen advises clients across a wide variety of sectors on intellectual property with a focus on patents, related know-how, and copyright.

• Acted for a leading London university on IP commercialisation with IP Group plc.
• Advised a leading London patent attorney firm on a patent licence involving a complex party history.
• Advised a biotechnology company on licensing its patent-protected technology in Japan.
• Acted on numerous patent litigation settlement agreements.

Maureen advises clients on data protection issues, in particular those related to contracts.

• Advised an SME providing software as a service on the changes required to its suite of contracts to comply with GDPR.
• Acted for a UK pension fund updating its data protection policy, breach policy, and privacy notice.
• Advised a UK company providing online training courses on its data protection obligations.

Maureen drafts and negotiates contracts across the education sector, particularly continuing professional development, universities and the research sector.

• Advised numerous providers of training courses on the terms and conditions for the supply of their services and the engagement of their trainers.
• Acted for King’s College London on the negotiation of an agreement with GlaxoSmithKline to provide anti-doping testing for London 2012 Olympics.
• Developed a suite of agreements to enable the provision of outreach online learning by a leading English independent school.

Maureen advises on the commercialisation of biotechnology and medical innovations including licensing, research collaborations and assignments.

• Advised a leading London patent attorney firm on a patent licence involving a complex party history.
• Acted for the Rosalind Franklin Institute on the negotiation a research collaboration and licence for nanobody technology with potential to treat viral diseases.
• Advised a leading Portuguese research body on its commercialisation strategy.

Maureen advises on software transactions  including delivery of SaaS and software development.

• Advised an online repository for video content from clinical trials on its terms and conditions of supply.
• Acted for Decibel Insight on the SaaS licensing of its web optimisation software.
• Acted for a pension services company on the delivery of its SaaS offering.

Maureen advises charities and not-for-profits on a wide range of contracts including grant terms, knowledge transfer agreements and key agreements for the purchase of goods and services. She has in-house experience working at Cancer Research UK.

• Developed for the Medical Research Council a suite of research agreement model forms with accompanying guidance notes.
• Revised grant terms for a leading UK medical charity.
• Advised a UK funder of medical research on a series of revenue share agreements for the results of long-term, multi-party, complex research collaborations

Registered Technology Transfer Professional

Member of the Society for Computers & Law