Because our wood-fired oven can MOVE, we have been fortunate to be able to visit some great local businesses in New Hampshire and Vermont. Here are some special places offering warm hospitality! Please consider giving them your business - keeping it local benefits all of us.
 Bishop Farm Bed and Breakfast is the ideal destination wedding venue in New England. Conveniently located in Lisbon, NH in the heart of the White Mountains, this unique property is owned and managed by the Salter family. Just a two hour drive from major airports in Manchester, NH and Boston, MA.
The Alerin Barn is a private, classic New England homestead set amid several hundred acres of rolling Vermont landscape. This pastoral estate boasts a country manor home with beautifully appointed rooms, and a hilltop ceremony site.
The Pioneer Wedding Barn is a destination wedding and event venue in the heart of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Their charming, rustic, and historic barn in Sugar Hill has been in the family for seven generations and offers the most beautiful of settings at affordable prices for life's most memorable occasions. Across from the Sugar Hill Sampler, the barn was a famous old dance hall!
A "nano-brewery" located almost in our backyard! Small batch, handcrafted Vermont beers in scenic Danville, Vermont. Red Barn brings in local foodies most weekends, and we're excited to be there a couple of nights a month this coming summer (2017). You can sign up on their page to stay up-to-date, and of course, sign up on ours, too!
The Preserve is a unique 26-acre gem tucked away in Tamworth, New Hampshire. The estate offers everything from a large farmhouse to cottages, barns, and sap houses, perfect for hosting gatherings of all sizes. Fire pits, hiking trails, rolling lawns with croquet all beckon you to slow down and enjoy.


Economic Research presents the MAPFRE GIP Index, the first global indicator that will measure the insurance potential of the world's different markets.
China leads the ranking for potential in both Life and Non-Life. The USA and India are among the top three positions in both lines. The new index will be updated on an annual basis.
This morning MAPFRE Economic Research presented the MAPFRE GIP (Global Insurance Potential index), a new indicator designed to measure the global insurable space, through the creation of a metric which, for the first time at global level, summarizes the markets that present the highest insurance potential in the medium and long term.
The MAPFRE GIP index was presented at an event attended by the Vice Chairman of MAPFRE, Ignacio Baeza, the General Manager of Economic Research, Manuel Aguilera, and the President of Unespa, Pilar González de Frutos.
The composition of this indicator is based on estimates of the size of the Insurance Protection Gap (IPG) in different insurance markets. The IPG represents the difference between the insurance coverage that is economically necessary and beneficial to society and the amount of coverage which is actually acquired. The IPG is not a static concept, but changes according to the growth of a country's economy and population, and the emergence of new risks.
As explained by Aguilera, the MAPFRE GIP index "identifies not only the factors that dictate the dynamic of the insurance gap's generation in these markets, but also considers the absorption capacity of the insurance gap in each market".
Based on these elements, the MAPFRE GIP ranking has been presented on the basis of the latest available data, corresponding to 2017 (the publication of the 2018 ranking is planned in the coming months).
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Q: Can't Get jQuery window.open to work in internet explorer I am trying to open a link in a new window using jquery, and it appears to be working fine in Chrome and other browsers,  but it will not work in IE.  Any hints as to what is going wrong?
here my my script thing-a-ma-jig:
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thanks in advance!!!

A: After running your jsFiddle, I found that you were running with jQuery 1.10.1.  When I switched it to run on a later version of jQuery (for example 2.1.0), my Internet Explorer 11 worked perfectly.  It may be that jQuery 1.10.1 and IE 11 are not compatible with each other.  Unless there is a compelling reason, always use the latest stable jQuery.

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It is precisely the region where we are located that gives it this particular name, considering that Hannibal´s way crosses part of the estate, the route which General Cartaginés took on his way to Rome.
The property of the Azaraque olive grove has taken the celebrated phrase attributed to Hannibal as its own (we will either find a way or we will make one). Providing an Extra Virgin Oil to the market is not chance but the result of work and perseverance, of dedication and illusion, of tenacity, the same qualities that made General Cartaginés cross the Alps with his elephants threatening an entire empire.
Firstly, the capacity to successfully cultivate an olive grove of these dimensions in spite of the difficult economic situation.
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(Publisher's Weekly, Oct. 20)
Dead or Alive: A Kevin Kerney Novel
McGarrity's 12th Kevin Kerney novel (after Death Song) displays the author's usual fine sense of place along with an unusual amount of gore. When escaped convict Craig Larson goes on a rampage that includes the murder of Riley Burke, a neighbor and buiness partners of former Santa Fe police chief Kerney, that's enough to bring Kerney, at least temporarily, out of retirement-and back from London, where Kerney's wife is a U.S. embassy employee. Larson's crime spree becomes more deadly as he tacks back and forth as far south as Texas and north almost to Colorado. Kerney, acting as a special investigator with the New Mexico State Police, and his lawman son, Clayton Istee, partner up for the statewide manhunt. McGarrity is particularly adept at portraying multijurisdictional investigations. While this isn't a good starting place for newcomers, series fans will relish the deepening relationship of Kerney and Istee, who only recently learned they were father and son. (It's due out in January).

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A small market town in North Nottinghamshire did not seem much of a musical hotspot in 1980. But when I bought Adam & The Ants' Kings Of The Wild Frontier at the end of the year, the smallprint in the Catalogue that came with it revealed a slightly different story. On March 16, 1978, it transpired, the Ants had played my local venue, Retford Porterhouse. Soon enough, I would discover that the Porterhouse was a place where gangs from the mining villages would come to fight on a Friday night, and where live bookings would mostly devolve into alternating visits from Doctor & The Medics and Guana Batz. But like so many other unpretentious clubs up and down Britain, the Porterhouse had its own discreet claims to fame, its own unexpected mythology.
The list of shows in the Ants' Catalogue now reads as a litany of quondam rock landmarks: Middlesbrough Rock Garden and London Lyceum; Bishop's Stortford Civic Hall and The Marquee Club. It's a world that we revisit, with much affection, in the new issue of Uncut, on sale in the UK this Thursday (though subscribers may already have their copies). Our cover story is on the Great Lost Venues of the UK, and the stories about these eccentrically-run, hygienically-dubious dancehalls and backrooms are vivid, and our thanks go out to The Rolling Stones, The Who, Suede, The Damned, The Specials and many more musicians, managers, promoters and punters who shared their memories with us.
More poignant still, we discover the fates of these storied venues. Where once there were vibrant and unpredictable incubators of talent, now there are Irish theme pubs, luxury flats, swimsuit shops and old people's homes. Grouped together, a picture emerges of an abandoned network; a live circuit that no longer exists, to the incalculable detriment of music in this country. "I feel for new bands, there's nowhere for them to learn their trade," Ray Davies tells us. "There aren't many places where a musician is allowed to be bad."
Elsewhere in the new issue we have an exclusive chat with Keith Richards. Richie Furay walks us through the brief and seismic story of Buffalo Springfield. There are interviews with Michael McDonald, The Sweet, Richard Hell, Jim White and This Is The Kit, and reviews of HC McEntire, First Aid Kit, Tune-Yards, Neil Young, Roy Harper, Willie Nelson, Fela Kuti, The Hold Steady and Rhiannon Giddens. Plus you'll find the definitive guide to 2018's key albums, featuring Jack White, Paul McCartney, Paul Weller, Johnny Marr, Father John Misty, The Breeders and My Bloody Valentine.
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Every Hartford Whalers fan who loves golf is going to want one of these. This is creation of PGA golfer and teacher John Bierkan, a Middlefield native. He's taken his love for his childhood team all around the country after leaving Connecticut, and now that passion for the Whale is prominently displayed every time he hits the links.
John told me this club cover is not sold in stores, but something he custom ordered. Very cool!


1 John 3:18-24. Jesus is going to help us close out the Surfing Chaos Series but, then again, Jesus is always helping one way or another. How can love help us surf the tumultuous seas of chaos when they assail our otherwise calm lives? This Sunday we'll attempt to bring all the pieces together from the series. You won't want to miss it!


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A collection of beautiful everyday objects by Australian designers, with manufacturers Axolotl and Evostyle.
A set of vessels designed by Matthew Sheargold and named after and inspired by the Japanese technique of kintsugi.
Born from a collaboration between surface-finish design company Axolotl and furniture manufacturer Evostyle, Anomaly has brought together ten Australian designers to create an exceptional selection of furniture and homewares.
The results of this collaboration are original, organic pieces that are tactile and engaging, often with a twist of humour and unexpected invitation. They are designed and manufactured locally and have a strong emphasis on materials, drawing heavily on the relative strengths of Anomaly's founding companies. Evostyle provides a high level of timber craftsmanship, while Axolotl brings expertise in concrete, semiprecious metals and applied finishes.
The Coexistence table, designed by Facet Studio, is made from ply and concrete slate.
"That's the whole idea behind the brand," says co-founder and managing director of Axolotl, Kris Torma. "Anomaly [both the brand and the concept] is something that's not [already] out there, and something you wouldn't normally see."
The designers behind Anomaly are David Caon, Philip Chia, Adam Cornish and David Knott, Facet Studio, Luke and Louise Ommundson, Matthew Sheargold, Kim Torma, Kris Torma, Ben Wahrlich and Andy Grigor.
For Matthew Sheargold, designing homewares is an opportunity to "use architectural materials in a softer way … [and] bring them even deeper into the home." His range of vases, vessels and plates is named after and inspired by the Japanese technique kintsugi – the art of mending with gold.
"It's the idea that if you break a piece of pottery, you fix it with resin and put gold in the cracks, so that you're making something more beautiful than it was originally," he explains.
In Matthew's work, some pieces reflect this notion as a literal "stitching" of concrete and wood with inlaid copper, while others explore more irregular, intricate pattern-work in a variety of metals.
Zig credenza designed by Ben Wahrlich.
By way of contrast, the bold cut of the timber in Ben Wahrlich's Zig range was inspired by the two-dimensional drawings that he uses in his work as an industrial and product designer. "Whenever you're doing a slice of a product, you get the crisscross section, the crosshatching," he says. "So I thought it'd be interesting to illustrate the moving components of the Zig range by having this crisscross in different directions to give it a really unique aesthetic and personality."
David Caon has also created a number of pieces for the launch, including the camo-patterned Ghillie chairs, in which a variety of textures work together to create a new interpretation of camouflage. "Rather than applying [the camo pattern] with colours we saw a great opportunity to combine the base timber with a concrete and a copper finish," David says. "That makes it a real celebration of the finishes and the materials themselves."
See more at anomaly.com.au
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Words: Deborah Niski
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Prince Kaboo: Burst of Light
Prince Kaboo, Re-named Sammy Morris
One of the most intriguing stories you will ever read concerns the escape of Prince Kaboo, son of an African chief who was scheduled to be buried alive by his enemies.
The year was 1887, the place, Liberia, West Africa. A neighboring tribe waged war on Kaboo's tribe and took the young prince hostage. Each day they demanded ransom from his father, the village chief. And each day that his father couldn't deliver the ransom, Kaboo was tied and beaten with a poisonous thorny vine. His beatings were so severe he could no longer stand up.
Seeing the futility of getting their ransom, Kaboo's enemies plotted a devious method of ending his life. They would bury him alive up to his neck, then let the carpenter ants eat his head and body.
While he was tied to a cross, hanging over his open grave, a most unusual thing happened. A bright light appeared from heaven, and a voice said, "Kaboo! Arise and flee!" The ropes tying his hands and feet fell off and he received great strength as he ran into the jungle.
Guided by the light from heaven, the young prince hid in hollow trees by day and walked by night. He found a farm where he worked, and then a mission where he attended church services for the first time.
Kaboo wanted to know who had made the bright light that guided him from danger. When a missionary told the Bible story about the Apostle Paul being blinded by a bright light from heaven, Kaboo knew it was Jesus Christ who had spoken to him in the jungle. He repented of his sins, was baptized and given the English name Samuel Morris, in honor of a benefactor of the mission.
The story gets more intriguing from there.
Sammy was eager to learn all he could about his new friend, Jesus. He prayed very simple prayers and God answered in unusual ways. One of the most remarkable was the way the former prince came to America.
Sammy had become curious about God's Holy Spirit and began asking questions. Finally, someone told him there was a man in America, named Stephen Merritt, who could answer all his questions about God. So, with great faith and no idea how far away America was from Africa, Sammy started walking toward the ocean, many miles away. He believed the God of heaven would make a way for him to get across it to America so he could find Stephen Merritt.
Arriving at the shore of the ocean, Sammy simply talked to his heavenly Father. He was led to a ship sailing to America, and got a job working on it. The crew treated him badly and gave him hard and dangerous work; however, his responses were so Christ-like that when the ship arrived in America, the captain and most of the sailors had become Christians. The former prince unwittingly had become a missionary.
Coming from the jungles of Africa, Sammy had no concept of how populated a place New York City could be. In simple faith, he asked his Father in heaven for help. Then he approached a stranger, asking where he could find Mr. Merritt. Amazingly, the stranger knew the man! God had answered Sammy's simple prayers again.
Mr. Merritt thought Sammy should go to Taylor University in Indiana, to study the Bible. The young man indeed wanted to learn all he could about God so he could go back to Africa and tell his people.
Unaccustomed to Indiana's cold weather, Sammy became sick and died during the winter of 1893, just two years after arriving. But his child-like faith left behind a great witness. Several American students went to Africa in Sammy's place, to tell his people how to get to heaven.
A devoted young man with child-like faith, who loved God with all his heart; that is the testimony Samuel Morris left as his legacy.
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This is an impressive list!
At the most prestigious of Hollywood awards ceremonies — the Academy Awards — the most highly anticipated and hotly debated categories are the acting awards. In the lead-up to the Oscars each year, the top movies are reviewed and discussed with a major focus on each film's most effective performances. And with such fierce competition each year, it's a huge accomplishment just to be nominated for one Oscar in an acting category. It's even more impressive to receive more than one nomination in a career.
The following esteemed actors have spent their careers racking up Oscar nominations for acting — though not all of them have actually won. Meanwhile, others on this list have received additional Oscar nods for non-acting categories, though this list tallies up just the nominations they earned for acting.
If it's an honor just to be nominated, take a scroll through the most-honored actors in Oscars history.
Famously choosy with his roles, Day-Lewis tended to select only the meatiest acting jobs. Although he places "last" on this particular list, he is actually one of the most accomplished and well-regarded cinematic performers of all time, as the only male actor to have won three awards in the lead actor category, and one of just three male actors to win three Oscars, period.
Sadly, Day-Lewis announced his retirement from acting in 2017 after completing his work on the film "Phantom Thread," for which he was nominated for the sixth time.
Richard Burton was nominated for seven Academy Awards — including a best actor nod for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" — but he never took home the gold. Still, the deep-voiced Welsh actor won numerous other awards, including BAFTAs and Golden Globes, and he was revered as first a Shakespearean thespian and, later, a box-office draw, becoming one of the highest-paid Hollywood actors in the 1960s.
His popularity at that time was likely fueled in part by his high-octane relationship with Elizabeth Taylor, which dominated headlines for years.
Perhaps best known for his comedic turn in the Coen Bros. film "The Big Lebowski," Jeff Bridges has actually been working in TV and film since he was a child, and he's racked up seven Oscar nominations over the years for roles far more serious than The Dude.
It's hard to believe Dame Judi Dench has been acting since the 1950s but didn't get her first Oscar nomination until 1997. Dench's seven Oscar nominations (and one win) since then are only a tiny percentage of her many honors to date. Between her expansive film career and tremendous list of onstage accomplishments, Dench has an Oscar, a Tony, two Golden Globes, two SAG Awards, four BAFTA Awards for television and six BAFTAs for film, among dozens of other awards and honors.
Her name may be less recognizable to modern audiences than others on this list, but Greer Garson was a powerful box-office draw in the 1940s. Garson earned a total of seven nominations for her performances of noteworthy characters, from Elizabeth Bennett in 1940's "Pride and Prejudice" to her final Oscar-nominated role as Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1960 film "Sunrise at Campobello." Five of her seven nominations came over five consecutive years, tying her with Bette Davis for the most acting nominations received in a row — a record that remains unbroken.
Garson would win her Oscar for her role in the 1942 best picture-winning war drama "Mrs. Miniver," and she apparently delivered the longest acceptance speech in Oscars history at over five minutes. This may have even been the original reason for restricting the time allowed for Oscar speeches.
Though he made his film debut in the early 1960s, it wasn't until the 1973 drama "Bang the Drum Slowly" that audiences took notice of Robert De Niro. What followed were career-making turns as a multitude of iconic mobsters, violent sociopaths and obsessed fans, and over time, De Niro amassed seven Oscar nominations for his acting work.
He would win two Academy Awards, first for his portrayal of a young Vito Corleone in "The Godfather Part II" and then for the role of boxer Jake LaMotta in "Raging Bull." Much of his success has come via a long collaboration with director Martin Scorsese. The two have collaborated on nine films, including the upcoming "The Irishman," co-starring Al Pacino.
When she won for "Coming Home," Fonda simultaneously spoke and signed the first few lines of her acceptance speech, in recognition of the hearing impaired, explaining that working on the film made her aware of the challenges faced by those with disabilities.
Dustin Hoffman has built a long and varied career in film, delivering poignant, moving performances in movies such as "The Graduate" and "Midnight Cowboy," but his original intention was to be a serious theater actor. In fact, he turned down every film role he was sent after "The Graduate," with the aim of returning to the theater for good.
Although she is lower on this list of most-nominated actors, like Daniel Day-Lewis, the Swedish-born film superstar Ingrid Bergman had more wins than most Hollywood actors. In fact, she is one of only a handful of actors to take home three Oscars.
Between 1962 and 2006, Peter O'Toole racked up an impressive eight Oscar nominations in the best actor category. He never won, however, and he holds the record for the most nominations without a win, which was a source of frustration for the esteemed British actor.
The Academy bestowed on O'Toole an honorary award in 2002, though the actor initially resisted it, writing in a letter to the Academy that he wasn't done with acting yet and would prefer more time to "win the lovely bugger outright." He requested that the award be delayed until he turned 80, but the Academy refused, assuring O'Toole that honorary recipients can (and do) go on to win other awards. He ultimately attended the ceremony and graciously received his honorary award from Meryl Streep, whom we'll get to in a bit.
If this were a list of actors with the most Golden Globe nominations, however, Pacino would rank even higher with an impressive 17 Globe nods (and four wins).
Soon after "Hondo," as a result of studying with Uta Hagen in New York City, Page was blacklisted in Hollywood and did not work in film for nearly a decade, meaning she could have had even more nods. She made an impressive comeback, however, earning seven more nominations, along with various other accolades for her work onscreen and onstage. By 1996, the New York Daily News deemed her "one of the finest stage actors" of her generation.
He would make his film debut a few years later in "The Men," beginning a career that would span decades.
It's a testament to his prolific body of work that audiences of several different generations are familiar with Jack Lemmon, whether it's from "Some Like It Hot," "The Odd Couple" or even the "Grumpy Old Men" films.
The eight-time Oscar nominee won the best-supporting actor Oscar for 1955's "Mister Roberts," and then his performance in 1973's "Save the Tiger" earned him the award for best actor. With his best actor win, Lemmon became the first male performer to win in both the supporting and lead acting categories.
Denzel Washington brings a powerful intensity to his onscreen roles that has earned him eight Oscar nominations for acting so far. His first win came in 1990 for his performance in "Glory," and then he took home the gold again in 2002 for "Training Day." That year, Washington won the Oscar alongside Halle Berry — the first time in history that both of the top acting awards were given to black performers.
In an alternate timeline, we may have never known Denzel Washington, the actor, if he had pursued another one of his aspirations: preaching.
Before they were staring out at us from Newman's Own food products in the grocery store, Paul Newman's bright blue eyes were enchanting audiences in classic films like "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Sting." In addition to being one of the most nominated actors of all time, Newman was also one of only four actors to have been nominated for an Oscar in five different decades.
He ultimately won for his turn in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film "The Color of Money." He also was given two honorary awards from the Academy during his remarkable career.
One of the most prominent actors of Hollywood's Golden Age, Spencer Tracy initially appeared in supporting roles to the leading man of the time, Clark Gable. He was later paired with Katharine Hepburn in numerous hit films in a classic romantic partnership that would become the cinematic template for countless onscreen duos.
A highly revered English stage actor (who himself had an acting award named after him), Laurence Olivier also amassed an impressive body of film work, appearing in more than 50 movies during his career. He is one of the most nominated actors ever and he won one acting Oscar for his titular performance in 1948's "Hamlet," which also happened to be the first non-American film to win the Oscar for best picture.
Olivier also held two honorary Academy Awards, one for 1947's "Henry V" and one to recognize his overall contribution to the art of film, which he received in 1979.
Bette Davis' raw intensity and versatility spurred a career that lasted nearly 50 years. In that span, Davis was nominated for 11 Oscars, winning twice (first for 1935's "Dangerous" and then three years later for "Jezebel").
Though her filmography is filled with one classic movie after another, Davis eventually grew dissatisfied with both the roles offered by Warner Brothers — with whom she was under contract — and the studio's refusal to pay what Davis felt she was worth. A lawsuit followed, and though the studio won, Davis was eventually welcomed back into the fold. From then on, the breadth of roles offered her — and the salary — had improved.
Bette Davis continued working well into the 1980s in films like "Wicked Stepmother." Her legendary screen presence even inspired a Grammy-winning song in 1981.
Although Katharine Hepburn is now considered one of cinema's greatest performers, there was actually a time in the late 1930s when she was considered "box-office poison." She made a sweeping comeback in the 1940s, however, and went on to enjoy an illustrious career that earned her 12 nominations and a total of four Oscar wins — even though she never showed up to the Academy Awards to receive any of them.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, she dismissed the awards as unnecessary, saying, "As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work." Still, no other actor has won more of these particular nothing-prizes than Katharine Hepburn.
Arguably the greatest actor of our time, Meryl Streep is not only the performer with the most Oscar nominations, but she has the most nominations by far. The next most-nominated actors have nearly half the number of nods that Streep has earned throughout her astonishing career.
And while the 21 nominations are impressive, there is one performer who has received more actual acting awards than even the legendary Streep: Katharine Hepburn. It may just be a matter of time, however, before Streep holds that record as well.


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Day 2: Understanding how the EPO and USPTO can directly help you secure and maintain a valuable patent portfolio
Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and Kilburn & Strode are pleased to invite you to day 2 of our annual summit: Invigorating your Portfolio: Optimize IP assets, reduce risk and increase value
December 2, 2020, 12-2PM PST
Understanding how the EPO and USPTO can directly help you secure and maintain a valuable patent portfolio
A panel of USPTO and EPO representatives, along with expert practitioners and in-house counsel, will discuss the various innovative tools and programs available assist applicants with better data, better insights into portfolio, and better tools for management. Quality initiatives are also in place to help with valuation and evaluation of patent families. In this day, we will therefore discuss how the EPO and USPTO can directly help companies ensure that its patent portfolio is not only extensive, but also truly valuable.
Host: Harry Harden, Kilburn & Strode
Keynote: Jeremy Holmes, IP Group
Moderator: Kathryn Eldridge, Kilburn & Strode
Panel: Jeff Kessler, Denali
Panel: Wayne Stacy, USPTO
Panel: Richard Garvey, EPO
Panel: Chris Palermo, Baker Botts
Panel: Marco Morbidini, Kilburn & Strode
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Jeremy Holmes, IP Group
Jeremy has an extensive track record in science and technology, both as a researcher and as IP Counsel. Following undergraduate degree and PhD at Cambridge University in Chemistry, he spent two years in Strasbourg working with Nobel Laureate Professor Jean-Marie Lehn. He then joined ICI as a research chemist, where he worked in their R&D function in a variety of roles, including a Royal Society Industrial Fellowship at Edinburgh University and three years in the Netherlands for an ICI subsidiary. In 2000 Jeremy entered the IP profession, and is a fully qualified UK and European Patent and Design attorney. During his time at ICI/AstraZeneca and Reckitt Benckiser, he was responsible for the management of global patent and design portfolios for major business sectors and gained extensive experience in IP litigation and due diligence. In January 2012 he joined Imperial Innovations as Patent Attorney and Due Diligence Manager, where his role was to manage the extensive IP portfolio, arising from Imperial College, in the Technology Transfer Group, liaising with numerous external attorney firms, ensuring that IP was robustly protected, as well as acting as an in-house consultant on IP issues. Jeremy also advised the Ventures Team at Imperial Innovations, and ensured that thorough and timely IP due diligence was carried out on investment opportunities. Following the take-over of Imperial Innovations by investment company IP Group plc in October 2017, and the subsequent re-integration of the Imperial Tech Transfer function back into Imperial College in March 2019, Jeremy moved to a more global role as Head of IP within IP Group plc, giving strategic IP advice to all of IP Group's 200 portfolio companies throughout the UK, USA and Australia and New Zealand, and working with the investment teams in their assessment of IP at key stages in funding for these companies.
Marco Morbidini, Partner, Kilburn & Strode
Marco regularly drafts and prosecutes patent applications for a variety of clients across many engineering fields including controls, robotics, hybrid & autonomous drive, powertrains & transmissions, turbomachinery, telematics, digital manufacturing, industry 4.0, battery & electricity operated electrical goods, compressed and liquefied natural gas containment technology, wearable health monitoring and nanoporous materials. Marco also provides pre- and post- drafting/prosecution services: invention identification, harvesting and commercial impact assessment; patent infringement and validity opinions; patent portfolio building & management; and, IP due diligence. He also regularly attends oral proceedings at the EPO, including oppositions and appeals. Having obtained valuable experience as the head of an in-house IP department in an advanced engineering company, Marco has become an all-round engineering attorney with uncompromised commercial focus. He diligently and efficiently implements IP protection programmes tailored to client-specific requirements. He can also work proactively in close collaboration with his clients to define plans and strategies to achieve measurable success at any stage of the IP chain. Marco has also been an examiner in the Patent Examination Board (PEB) between 2015 and 2017, and is currently a Visiting Lecturer for the Postgraduate Certificate in Intellectual Property at Bournemouth University.
Harry Harden, Associate, Kilburn & Strode
Harry has a background in physics relating to medicine and has a Master's degree in physics from the University of Nottingham. He primarily works in the software, AI, medical and music sectors, and his practice involves working on a wide range of technologies and advising clients on patent prosecution strategies across the globe. Recent work has involved significant preparation and prosecution of multidisciplinary, cross sector technologies. Such technologies include fertility testing devices, and technologies relating to the use of AI in predicting patient responses to certain drugs. Harry also has experience providing patentability opinions for machine learning technologies applied to a variety of life sciences technologies. Harry has particular experience in freedom to operate analysis and due diligence work on various scales, from start-ups to large multi-national corporations. Recent work has involved detailed patent due diligence investigations to advise on commercial implications of patent portfolios. He has previously been a member of the CIPA Patents Committee, which plays a key role in changes to UK patent law. He was also a member of PPWG, which is the UK's chief liaison with the UK Intellectual Property Office.
Kathryn Eldridge, Partner, Kilburn & Strode
Kathryn has extensive experience of working with a variety of clients, including both large multinational companies and start ups. She works closely with her clients to provide them with a bespoke service which allows them to maximise the value of their Intellectual property. She is extremely commercially focussed and her advice is tailored to the needs of her clients' businesses. This commercial focus is combined with her extensive experience of prosecution and post-grant proceedings not just in Europe but in major territories such as China, Korea and Japan allows Kathryn, allowing her to provide her clients with an effective patenting strategy to efficiently protect their commercial products. In particular, as a very experienced practitioner before both the European Opposition Divisions and the Boards of Appeal, Kathryn is able to use her up to date knowledge of EPO practice to implement patent strategies and obtain strong and defensive protection. In addition to protecting her clients' products, Kathryn routinely provides her clients with patent landscape reviews, freedom to operate opinions and due diligence opinions. Kathryn handles chemistry subject matter in a variety of fields such as polymer chemistry including petrochemicals, glycopeptides and controlled/living polymers, materials chemistry including catalysts and fuel cells, as well as industrial chemistry including refrigerants, propellants, solvents and foam blowing agents.
Jeffrey Kessler, Denali
Jeff is Senior Director, IP Legal at Denali Therapeutics in South San Francisco, CA. He has over 15 years of experience in intellectual property law, working both at law firms and as in-house counsel. His practice includes on patent drafting and prosecution, patent portfolio strategy, patentability and freedom-to-operate work, as well as drafting and negotiating agreements. Jeff focuses on biotechnology, particularly on complex patent portfolios involving large molecule therapeutics, and has worked at Denali to develop its large molecule patent portfolio around its Transport Vehicle platform for transporting large molecule therapeutics across the blood-brain barrier. Prior to Denali, Jeff was in-house patent counsel at OncoMed Pharmaceuticals in Redwood City, CA, and at the law firms of Goodwin and Clark+Elbing in Boston, MA.
Christopher Palermo, Baker Botts
Christopher J. Palermo has more than 30 years of experience advising clients on patent risk analysis, patent drafting and portfolio development, patent negotiation with the USPTO and worldwide, expert opinions and testimony, trademark clearance and negotiation, international trademark disputes and domain name arbitrations, licensing, privacy, and technology development agreements. Mr. Palermo has experience covering technologies related to AI and machine learning, e-procurement, security, distributed systems, networking, telecommunications, object-oriented software, and internet applications. Subspecialties include speech recognition, voicemail, e-commerce, cryptography, and digital imaging. He has served as a testifying witness on patent non-infringement and invalidity matters for Fortune 1000 companies and has an active opinion, FTO and expert practice.
Richard Garvey, European Patent Office
Richard Garvey has worked for the European Patent Office since 1998 and for the last 17 years has worked as a Key Account Manager in the Directorate "User Enquiries & Intelligence". His main responsibilities are to facilitate the streamlined interaction between the EPO, their applicants & patent representatives, using the existing online services. Richard is also involved in providing user feedback for the next generation of tools, in the EPO user service area, under the Strategic Plan 2023 initiative. Combining his enthusiasm for the improvement of online services within the relevant legal framework, Richard supplemented his Bachelor of Laws, by successfully gaining a Masters of Laws in IT & Telecommunications, with the aim of helping the EPO & their users achieve these goals. He currently manages a portfolio of around 80 companies, made up from a combination of Applicants, European Patent Attorneys and International Patent Agents.
Wayne Stacy, Western Regional Director, USPTO
As the Regional Director of the USPTO's Western Regional Office, Wayne Stacy carries out the strategic direction of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and is responsible for leading the USPTO's Western Regional Office in San Jose. Focusing on the region and actively engaging with the community, Mr. Stacy ensures the USPTO's initiatives and programs are tailored to the region's unique ecosystem of industries and stakeholders. Prior to joining the USPTO, Mr. Stacy was a partner in the Baker Botts Intellectual Property group from 2016 to 2020 and a partner at Cooley, where he practiced law for over sixteen years. With a computer-engineering background, he has over twenty years of experience litigating high-stakes technology cases, including patent, trade secret, software-based copyright, and technology-licensing disputes. He has served as the lead lawyer in numerous jury trials. For almost two decades, Mr. Stacy has dedicated his spare time to teaching law students about the realities of litigating technology cases. He has been an adjunct professor at four universities, teaching patent law, patent litigation, copyright law, and PTAB practice. Mr. Stacy also devotes significant time to improving the legal community. He has served on Federal Court local-rule committees, drafting patent local rules. He also served as faculty for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, where he has taught a variety of courses from deposition skills to his favorite course, trial skills for public service attorneys.