Kealan Fallon

Kealan Fallon

Patent Attorney

MSci, PhD, MRSC, EPA

With a background spanning chemistry, physics, and engineering, Kealan has a deep appreciation of the challenges and opportunities within interdisciplinary research environments. His broad experience helps him to understand and protect his clients’ innovations.

Kealan works over a wide range of subject matter in the chemical and electronics industries, from polymers and small molecule speciality chemicals to scientific equipment and photonic technologies. A major part of Kealan’s work involves opposition and appeals before the European Patent Office, opposing and defending European patents.

Kealan holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry and a first class master’s degree in Chemistry, both from University College London (UCL). Before joining the IP profession in 2022, he held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University, Columbia University, and the University of Cambridge. He has published over twenty peer-reviewed journal articles and held two patents on his academic research. He is a Fulbright Scholar and a Ramsay Fellow.

AREAS OF PRACTICE IN PATENTS:

Adhesive products
Catalysis
Chemical engineering
Clean technology
Consumer products
Environmental chemistry
Laser
Materials science
Nanotechnology
Optics
Packaging technology
Paints and coatings
Pigments and dyes
Photonics
Polymers
Speciality chemicals

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Thought leadership from Kealan Fallon:

Podcasts Jan292025

The Greenshoots Podcast by Appleyard Lees – Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report – Batteries

In this episode, Partners, Chris Mason, and David Walsh, and Trainee Patent Attorney, Kealan Fallon, discuss their article on batteries recycling — a positive example of how development and innovation of new methods and processes can overcome significant material, chemical and physical challenges of recycling.

Trainee blogs Jun202023

Trainee blog: a visit to the UKIPO

For most trainee patent attorneys, the UK Intellectual Patent Office (UKIPO) is a mystical place full of unknown examiners with whom you volley with in order to get your patent application through to grant. Amidst all of the forms and letters exchanged during patent examination, it is easy to forget that it is possible, and often advantageous, to simply ring the UKIPO to clarify or questions any points of confusion.

Trainee blogs Mar032023

My first year as a trainee patent attorney

I began my career as a trainee patent attorney 12 months ago, after spending nearly a decade in academia. Looking back, I was prepared for working on real cases from day one and for a steep learning curve that is often discussed on careers websites – actually, these exciting challenges attracted me to the job in the first place.

Trainee blogs May122022

Deciding on a career as a patent attorney

In this blog post we hear from Oliver Herd and Kealan Fallon, who are both new trainees working in the Cambridge office. They talk about why they were drawn to a career as a patent attorney.