Partner

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Having trained with us, Simon was invited to join the partnership in 1999. He has over 17 years experience advising clients in patent, trade mark and design matters. 

His clients include a wide range of companies and universities in the physical sciences, in the USA, Japan and the EU but primarily based in Cambridge and East Anglia. He also covers fields such as engineering, materials, electronics, software, medical devices, telecommunications, television, semiconductor fabrication and cryptography.

Simon advises trade mark clients in many sectors on trade mark use and protection. He has experience of trade mark clearance searching and selection, filing programmes to register trade marks around the world and inter partes matters such as co-existence agreements and negotiated settlements. 

In his spare time, he has a passion for cycling, hiking and gliding.

Memberships

• Member, Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys
• Member, Cambridge Energy Forum
• Member, Cambridge Network
• Member, Society for Computers and Law
• Professional representative before the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM)

Qualifications

• Degree in natural sciences, specialising in physics and materials science, Cambridge University
• Doctorate in materials science, Cambridge University
• European Patent Attorney, 1992
• Chartered Patent Attorney, 1994
• Registered Trade Mark Attorney, 2001