Patrick has practised both in the UK and overseas in contentious and non-contentious intellectual property law for 30 years and is recognised by the Legal 500 and Chambers as an expert and leading individual. Actively engaged in the sector, he sits as a Council Member for the UK for the Licensing Executives Society International, the global technology transfer forum and is also a past chairman of the Parallel Imports Committee of the International Trademarks Association. 

Following the Vote Leave result, he sits on a working group of the Intellectual Property Lawyers Association reviewing the impact on domestic law, if the UK were to cease to be a member state of the European Union.