Staff Profiles

The IP Consulting team boasts a broad range of IP practice experience serving a global customer base. Here are a few key members of our team:

Aileen Buchanan
Head of CPA Global IP Consulting

Aileen is based in CPA Global's Munich office and has been with CPA Global since 2002. She is a registered US Patent Agent with a technical background in molecular biology and genetics. Prior to joining CPA Global, Aileen gained ground-up IP experience at Sughrue Mion in Washington, DC by working for seven years as both a paralegal and administrator to their prosecution group. This prior experience coupled with her background in CPA Global Software Solutions, patent research, patent analytics and outsourcing has evolved her role to strategic consulting with CPA Global clients through analyzing and designing comprehensive business solutions. These areas include patent intelligence, value creation and extraction, risk mitigation, compliance, best practice, cost-reduction, IP process management and administration.

Frank Wattler PhD
IP Consultant

Frank works with clients in Europe to extract, identify and exploit patent potential. Frank leads the team's German consulting projects and has extensive patent analytics and search expertise. Frank';s background is in the biotech industry where he previously worked at Lexicon Genetics in Texas as a Senior Scientist in discovery research, and also at Ingenium Pharmaceuticals, Germany where Frank built up a healthy patent portfolio at Ingenium as their Director of IP.

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