LIONEL SCOTT Lionel Scott runs his own IP consultancy in Cambridge, UK, which provides patenting and strategic patenting advices to biotech companies (pharma) and tertiary institutions (agronomic, pharma, medical and veterinary technologies) and has an extensive network of contacts in universities and large academic institutions worldwide in many countries and particularly within Cuba, the Middle East, Russian Federation, Scandinavia and India. He has broad experience in patenting and strategic patenting in the life sciences arena and especially the pharma and agronomic arena (both "biotech" and organic chemistry) over the past 20 years, and has been instrumental in the strategic patenting of inventions and in providing strategic patenting advice for 7 biotech start-up companies over the past 6 years based in Britain, Holland and Germany. Before that Lionel worked inter alia at the corporate level in industry for a large multinational concern and in private practice in the role of patent attorney for a within the largest Firm of Patent Attorneys, in the UK. Lionel has a double science degree in biochemistry and neurophysiology which was taken at the University of Western Australia. Lionel strongly believes that the right IP can act as a cornerstone for sound commercial investment and ultimate commercial success. In the increasingly global world in which we live, the race is on to secure and commercially exploit technology efficiently and well: Having the right IP will help you realise the full potential of your commercial enterprise. In his spare time Lionel is a passionate ocean sailor, he has competed in several ocean classics including two Fastnet races and several North Sea races. He has completed a first half of a circumnavigation of the world and has seen at first hand some of the exciting and fascinating creatures and plants that inhabit the sea. These living things hold surprising secret keys to such fields as future medicines, glues, dressings and foods: their environment needs to be respected and managed responsibly, if our children and their children are to live in a World which has the genetic diversity that is so important to mankind as a species. By studying animals and plants, we unlock their secrets, and by responsible exploitation, we safeguard their and our futures. When the sea gets too rough he likes classic cars, specially Bristols and Jaguars but he still appreciates the Italian thoroughbreds.