Our People

Meet our passionate and driven Team of Consultants and Associates with a strong record in delivering effective IP and business solutions to high-growth businesses

Claudia Duffy, Founder & CEO

A former Scientist turned Patent Attorney, Claudia has also become an IP Entrepreneur by founding Innovare IP and IIP BLOKS. 

Claudia is an European Patent and Design Attorney and, since entering the patent profession in 2008, she held both private practice attorney roles (in London, Cambridge and Edinburgh) and in-house attorney roles (for two Cambridge-university spin-outs from her former PhD Group). Claudia is acting as IP Consultant for various legal practices and angel investors and as pseudo in-house attorney for early-stage businesses. Claudia regularly provides IP training and mentoring to various accelerators and universities in Scotland and South-East of England. She also carries IP auditing and evaluation projects for her clients who seek to extract more value from their innovation.

Claudia has lived, worked and studied in three European countries. Starting with a BSc in Physics and Chemistry, Claudia went on to pursue graduate research in Physics through MSc and PhD degrees in Munich and Cambridge respectively. Her graduate degrees were based on industrial sponsorships – MSc sponsored by Siemens and Infineon Technologies in Munich and PhD sponsored by Hitachi in Cambridge – which enabled her to work at the forefront of innovation. Claudia also worked as Research Scientist for Infineon Technologies in Munich. 

Whilst in Cambridge, Claudia has developed a strong interest in entrepreneurship and in 2015 she co-founded the Strategic IP Forum in collaboration with the Centre for Technology Management at the University of Cambridge. Since relocating to Edinburgh in 2016, Claudia has been the Scottish lead of CAMentrepreneurs, a global support network fostering and encouraging entrepreneurship in Scotland and aiming to create strong links between Scotland and the South-East of England. Claudia has also spent one year working in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh on increasing the industry engagement, bridging the gap between medical and engineering sciences and commercialising university-generated IP from the Engineering Sciences. Since 2018, she has also started to act as Advisory Board member for young Scottish companies.