Patent Portfolio Generation and Management

Donal is the Managing Director of Chawton Innovation Services which offers consultancy in the areas of innovation and IP management. He is formerly a VP of R&D and a Director of IP at Nokia where he worked for 21 years and gained wide and varied experience in the wireless telecoms industry. Donal is also a Visiting Researcher at Imperial College Business School in London where he teaches about 'IP management'. Donal's books include 'Inside the Patent Factory' and Harvesting External Innovation'. He is also written a large number of papers on various aspects of innovation and IP. Since 2013, Donal has been included into the IAM 300. He is a graduate from NIHE Limerick (now The University of Limerick) in Ireland in '85, with a Degree in Electronic Engineering.

Simone Frattasi is a European Patent Attorney and a Telecommunications Engineer with a PhD in Wireless, Mobile Communications. Simone was ranked as a Managing IP's Corporate Star in 2022. Since June 2019, he is the Head of Global IP at MAERSK, Denmark, which, under his lead, has been awarded the Gold Award for "Best IP Department Nordics" at INIFA 2022 and the Silver Award for "Best Patent department EMEA" at ILASA 2022. From 2016 to 2019, he was the Head of Patent Department at Sony Mobile Communications, Sweden, which, under his lead, was awarded the Silver Award for "Best IP Department Nordics" at INIFA 2019. Previously, he worked as a Patent Attorney at two Danish IP firms (Patrade and Plougmann & Vingtoft) and as a Postdoc/Technical Project Manager at Aalborg University, Denmark. He co-founded and acted as CTO/COO for two start-up companies, respectively operating in the business of software development for public speaking training and scientific events management. He represented Sweden in the ISO standard "Innovation Management System, Guidelines for IP Management". He is a Lecturer for Forum Institut for the courses "Patent Portfolio Generation and Management" and "IP Department: Best Practices and Digitization". Simone is co-author of the book "Patent Portfolio Management: A Practical Guide" to be published by Edward Elgar Publishing in 2023.