Unlocking the full value of your IP: How to generate value from your patents across the innovation lifecycle

Angela is an Associate Director with over 12 years’ experience advising on innovation incentives. She leads the delivery of Patent Box relief claims for clients, reducing Corporation Tax payments on profits related to intellectual property.

Based in ForrestBrown’s Scotland office, Angela provides dedicated local support to ensure that Scottish businesses are maximising their reward for investment in innovation, as well as working with businesses across the UK.

Following a range of advisory and consulting roles, including at KPMG and EY, Angela made the switch to ForrestBrown. She now focuses on helping innovative companies access innovation incentives with a focus on the Scottish market, particularly with businesses in the engineering and energy sectors who are striving to meet net zero demands and overcome supply chain issues.

Angela is passionate about the benefits of Patent Box, working with businesses to reward their investment in IP and amplify the benefits of their innovation.

Beginning her career with a Big Four firm and gaining experience across a range of auditing and tax roles, Katy has specialised in R&D tax relief since joining ForrestBrown in 2019.

During a time of unprecedented change, Katy has led ForrestBrown's approach to key policy developments including restrictions on overseas R&D activities and HMRC's introduction of an Additional Information Form. This has included liaising with HMRC, delivering internal training and providing insights to clients.

Clients working with Katy benefit from her commercial mindset and deep knowledge of R&D tax relief, including how it can work alongside other innovation incentives. She works with a range of large and complex businesses in sectors including manufacturing, financial services and aerospace, where she is a trusted adviser on the RDEC incentive.

Katy co-authored the Tolley's Tax Digest on R&D tax relief and has contributed articles to publications including Taxation and The CFO.

Director of IP Strategy, Scintilla IP Suzanne is a Chartered Engineer, as well as dual-qualified European and UK Patent Attorney and has recently joined the Scintilla IP team as Director of IP Strategy, responsible for building their first office outside of Scotland in the heart of Manchester. Previously she was at GroundWOW, a high growth technology start up, managing GroundWOW’s patent and trademark prosecution activity, leading their IP strategy development. Previously, she was responsible for operations, legal, IP and procurement at SeeChange technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Arm, which was spun out of ARM in late 2021. Before joining the SeeChange business, she managed ARM’s global patent and trademark prosecution teams, during which time she supported a wide range of IP strategy and global IP policy development matters. She holds multiple NED and Board positions, including holding the recent position of President of the UK IP Federation, during which time Suzanne often advised the UK government in the field of UK Innovation & IP. Currently Suzanne is on the Appeal Board of the Seashell Trust, a charity foundation school for SEN children and their families, based in Cheadle. She has been named as an IAM ‘World Leading IP Strategist’ for 2017, and as a Managing IP ‘Corporate IP Star’ in 2018 & 2019. She was a national award winner for her Corporate Diversity and Inclusion Leadership work in 2018. She is also a member of the Manchester Angels investor network.