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Philip Lawrence

Philip Lawrence is a Senior Patent Examiner at the Intellectual Property Office in the UK.

Crowdsourcing brings gender neutrality to a legacy manual.

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A team of more than 40 ‘crowdsourced’ patent examiners took on the task of upgrading all 1,028 pages of the IPO’s 35-year-old Manual of Patent Practice, aiming to refresh its dated language and make it inclusive. Senior Patent Examiner Phil Lawrence tells us more. 

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