{"id":7,"date":"2012-09-30T18:20:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T18:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2012-10-05T10:34:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T10:34:39","slug":"the-ip-alchemist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/the-ip-alchemist\/","title":{"rendered":"The IP Alchemist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>My name is Aegidius and I am the IP Alchemist.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, my real name is Darren Smyth, and I am a UK and European Patent Attorney. \u00a0I am a partner in the IP law firm <a title=\"EIP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eip.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">EIP<\/a>. \u00a0You can see more about them in the <a title=\"EIP\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/eip\/\" target=\"_blank\">EIP page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I call myself Aegidius because my first name is actually Gyles (thanks Mother), which is of course Aegidius in Latin. \u00a0Or Aegilius, but let\u2019s not split hairs.<\/p>\n<p>And I call myself the IP Alchemist because \u2013 well, it\u2019s obvious really, isn\u2019t it.<\/p>\n<p>Some say that I am a pedant, but I just think that I like to be precise.<\/p>\n<p>My academic background is in chemistry. \u00a0I still love it. \u00a0And it upsets me that \u201cchemistry\u201d is becoming a four-letter word. \u00a0There is more about this on my chemistry page.<\/p>\n<p>And I like singing. \u00a0Currently, I sing in the voluntary choir of St Giles in the Fields, a most historic church near Tottenham Court Road. \u00a0You can hear us most Sunday evenings at 6.30pm (note the civilised and weekend-friendly time). \u00a0There is more about this on the music page.<\/p>\n<p>This blog reflects all areas of my work life and the rest of my life, including patents and other IP, chemistry and science in general, music, travel, as well as touching on my leisure and social life. \u00a0All in one handy package.<\/p>\n<p>Do feel free to post comments \u2013 I would love to hear from you.\u00a0 If you want to email me, I would like that as well.\u00a0 It is dsmyth[at]ipalchemist.com (change the [at] to @ \u2013 if I write it properly I get spammed).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Aegidius and I am the IP Alchemist. Actually, my real name is Darren Smyth, and I am &#8230; <br \/><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/the-ip-alchemist\/\">keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}