Programme Committee
Maureen Kelly
Maureen Kelly is a solicitor with Keystone Law. She specialises in intellectual property and technology law, with a particular focus on technology transfer.
Before joining Keystone Law she was an in-house solicitor at Cancer Research Technology Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cancer Research UK. There she worked on a wide variety of matters including patent licensing and assignment, collaborative research agreements, research grants, clinical trials and consultancy agreements. Maureen began her career with City law firm Herbert Smith. She spent nine years there and specialised in intellectual property and information technology deals and disputes. Her experience encompassed work in relation to patents, trade marks, copyright, confidential information, information technology and data protection. Maureen is experienced in providing legal training to lawyers and non-lawyers.
She is a graduate of Queen’s University, Belfast where she gained a Masters in Law and Computers and she holds a Diploma in Intellectual Property Law from Bristol University.
Maureen has published on a range of intellectual property and technology topics and is a contributor to "Intellectual Property Issues in Commercial Transactions" (Sweet and Maxwell 2007).
