Naoise Gaffney is of counsel and UPC director at Bristows LLP. He is admitted as a litigator at the UPC, and as a patent attorney both at the EPO and in the US. He has featured in the IAM 300 list of the world’s top IP strategists for 9 years running, and prior roles have included general counsel and head of IP at a gaming hardware scaleup, head of IP at a Nasdaq-listed biotech and head of patent development at Intellectual Ventures. He is chair of the IP Network at Ibec, Ireland’s foremost business lobby group, is an adjunct professor of patent law at Trinity College Dublin and is a named inventor on over 20 international patent applications.