Parminder Lally

Parminder Lally

Partner

MSci, PhD, CPA, EPA

Parminder helps clients to protect their technological innovations and to develop and implement their IP strategies. Her experience, both in-house and with direct clients, means she understands the challenges faced by businesses developing IP and tailors her approach to meet their specific commercial needs. She has built a substantial reputation working with high-growth start-ups, spin-outs, and SMEs in Cambridge and beyond.

Parminder primarily handles physics-based technologies and computer-implemented inventions (CIIs), and she is well-known for her specialism in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep tech.

Her work in the AI space includes patenting AI and machine learning used for image analysis and object classification, human-computer interactions, text-to-speech systems, 5G networks, and synthetic dataset generation, as well as novel generative AI models, federated learning, and the use of AI to control processes or machines.

She has also drafted and prosecuted a wide range of more general software-based patent applications, such as, for example, bioinformatics, sound recognition, cyber security, and threat detection, and natural language processing.

Parminder joined the patent profession in 2011 after completing a Master’s degree in Physics at Imperial College London and a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Oxford. Parminder is currently vice-chair of the AI committee of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), and is a part of the Appleyard Lees team looking at AI tool usage for IP work.

AREAS OF PRACTICE IN PATENTS:

AI and Machine Learning in drug discovery
Artificial intelligence
Autonomous vehicles and control
Bioinformatics
Cloud computing
Consumer electronics
Display devices
E-commerce
Electro-optical devices
Image processing (e.g. MRI)
Information security
Lasers
Machine learning
Mechatronics
Medical devices
Optics
Printing
Print systems
Quantum technologies
Robotics
Software defined networking
Telecommunications
Video coding

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Articles Mar112026

Software and AI Patentability: A Global Overview

This article provides an overview of how AI and software can be patented in key jurisdictions and commercial markets. This will help you and your trusted patent attorney to develop an optimal patent filing strategy for your AI innovations.

Articles Feb112026

UK Supreme Court dismantles the emotional rollercoaster

The UK Supreme Court delivered their long-awaited judgment in the Emotional Perception AI case. Applicants, innovators and patent attorneys working in the AI space can finally breathe a sigh of relief - it is now much clearer that AI innovations can be patented in the UK.

Articles Jan192026

Patent Prosecution Highway – speeding towards patent grant

The road to getting a patent can be quite long and winding. This can be advantageous for some patent applicants, particularly start-ups and spin-outs, because it spreads out the costs for patent prosecution over a number of years. However, there are times when it may be desirable to speed-up the patent prosecution process. In this article, we explain a popular way to speed-up the process to getting a patent: the aptly named Patent Prosecution Highway.

Articles Jul172025

Emotional Perception: Time to Face the Music?

Ahead of the next chapter in the ongoing UK proceedings regarding the ”Emotional Perception” patent application (application number GB1904713.3), our experts re-cap the story so far and share hopes on what might happen next.