Emily Chittock

Emily works in the Life Sciences group at Carpmaels & Ransford and specialises in nucleic acid and protein therapeutics, as well as platform and manufacturing technologies in the biotechnology field. She has experience in advising clients though all stages of the patent process, from drafting new applications, through to coordinating prosecution of European and global patent portfolios, and on to post-grant contentious proceedings. Emily particularly enjoys using her strategic thinking skills in complex opposition and appeal cases and has represented her clients in muti-party proceedings before the EPO,  both in a defensive and offensive capacity.

Emily graduated from Worcester College, University of Oxford with a first class Master’s degree in Biochemistry. Following this, she carried out her doctoral research at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, where she used biochemical assays and X-ray crystallography to characterise the Polycomb Repressive Deubiquitinase complex. She graduated magna cum laude, with her PhD degree awarded jointly by EMBL and the University of Heidelberg.

Having joined the profession in 2017, she qualified as a UK and European patent attorney in 2021. In 2019, Emily received a Distinction in the Certificate in Intellectual Property Law course at Queen Mary University of London.

Emily enjoys travelling and spending time in lakes and oceans, be that swimming or rowing on the water surface, or scuba diving under it. She learnt German while completing her doctoral studies in Heidelberg and continues to improve her fluency through German literature, music and baking.