Mr Mrs Miss Ms Dr Other

Ing.
Alastair
Blake

Patent Director

Aberdeen Office Glasgow Office Amsterdam Office The Hague Office

Engineering

Telephone. +44(0) 141 229 5800
Email. [email protected]
Vcard
Linkedin

Experience

Alastair has a broad technical, commercial and legal background, ensuring an appreciation of the bigger picture, whilst maintaining a keen eye for detail.

Prior to entering the patent profession, Alastair spent a decade in R&D in the UK and the Netherlands, in fields ranging from offshore engineering to domestic appliances - including literally "splitting hairs" at Philips (under a SEM microscope). Having worked for multinationals, start-ups and in-between, Alastair has a good appreciation of business and always strives to ensure IP strategy matches clients' commercial activities.

After a further decade working as a patent attorney, Alastair has developed a quick grasp of diverse engineering technologies and has particular experience of coordinating protection and enforcement of global portfolios.

As well as utility patents, Alastair also has very useful experience and knowledge of registered designs ("design patents"). Design protection of the visual appearance of products can often complement functional patent protection; or provide an alternative deterrent or enforcement strategy.

Reflecting his affection for language in general, Alastair is unusually fluent in Dutch.

Specialisms

Industries

Services

Qualifications

Patent Attorney

Chartered (UK)
Europe

MENG

Product Design Engineering from University of Glasgow & Glasgow School of Art, UK

OTHER

Ingenieur Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Hanzehogeschool in Groningen, the Netherlands.

Publications

Protecting Innovation for the Energy Transition: Beating the first-mover curse

View publication online

Conferences: 2020

November 2nd 2020

ICoTA Europe Webinar: AkerBP

Attended

Event details

February 12th 2020

Subsea Expo 2020 - Aberdeen

Speaker

Event details

CSR

Alastair has assisted in the training of countless trainee patent attorneys over the years; and has also mentored formalities officers through their training, drawing on his in-depth legal knowledge.

Over the years, Alastair has presented at numerous universities and conferences, often being commended on being clear and authoritative whilst also maintaining a welcome approachability.

Related News

Managing Intellectual Property IP Stars 2023

After months of research, Managing IP has published the IP Stars list for 2023. HGF is delighted to have 23 attorneys from England, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands and Germany recognised and …

Read article

Profiting from Innovation Within Product Platforms

Innovative businesses should seek to maximise the value they obtain from working collaboratively within a product platform ecosystem. A well-defined IP strategy can help achieve this while increasing total innovation …

Read article
Event - 25th May 2023

New seminar series in Salzburg, Dresden and Hamburg

HGF is organising a new German-speaking seminar series in Salzburg, Dresden, and Hamburg starting May 25 2023. Dates May 25, 2023 at 17:30 – Salzburg June 1 2023 at 17:30 …

Event details

Can Artificial Intelligence save the NHS?

In recent months, it has been almost impossible to escape reports of the staffing crisis in the NHS and the impact this is having on the services the NHS can …

Read article

Spotting innovation in digital health – and can you patent it?

Intellectual Property (IP) can add significant value to your business, providing a competitive edge over the market, as well as demonstrating sound business planning to help secure investment. There are …

Read article

Innovation at the heart of UK medtech strategy

The UK Department of Health and Social Care has recently published the government’s first ever medical technology strategy in an effort to accelerate access to innovative technologies. The strategy document …

Read article

How medtech start-ups can supercharge their IP for fundraising

Why is IP important for fundraising? Intellectual property (IP) rights underpin the value of most medtech start-up companies. IP rights include patents, design rights, trade marks, copyright and trade secrets …

Read article

What is EUDAMED and how will it affect your IP strategy?

The “European database on medical devices”, or “EUDAMED”, is the EU’s IT system created by the new Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) and In Vitro Diagnostics Medical Devices Regulation (IVDR). When …

Read article
See all updates

Let's talk

If you would like to discuss how HGF could help you, contact one of our IP specialists.

Contact us