Jack Lindley-Start

律师, 英国及欧洲专利律师
Bath

Jack Lindley-Start

Jack has experience in dealing with patents across a variety of technical areas including aerospace, mechanical, electrical, and manufacturing. His experience includes patent drafting, prosecution, Freedom to Operate (FTO) risk management including analysing and monitoring of competitors’ patent portfolios, FTO searches, and taking mitigating actions, such as filing Third-Party Observations and European Patent Office oppositions.

Jack has spent over two years on part-time secondment to an aerospace company. Jack’s secondment work has involved development of the company's IP strategy and processes, invention mining, and patent portfolio management.

Jack is a chartered engineer with an aerospace engineering background having worked in a variety of roles for Rolls-Royce plc including as a research engineer developing repair schemes for their composite fan containment cases.

Jack has experience of composite manufacture through his Engineering Doctorate. Jack also has a broad technical background, having a first class master’s degree in Integrated Engineering, which covered electrical, electronic, mechanical and manufacturing engineering. Jack’s work related to Inertial Confinement Fusion fuel shell production has been published in the Scientific Reports journal.

Recent work

  • Filing an offensive opposition and Third Party Observations related to aerospace technology.
  • Invention harvesting and development of patent portfolio and FTO strategies as an in-house secondee.
  • FTO searches and competitor patent portfolio reviews.
  • Drafting and prosecuting patent applications related to aircraft, sequencing devices, and manufacturing processes.

Education

  • 2021
    Post Graduate Certificate in Intellectual Property, Bournemouth University
  • 2016 — 2021
    EngD, Composite Manufacture, University of Bristol
  • 2011 — 2016
    MEng, Integrated Engineering, Cardiff University

Career history

  • 2020 — present
    Patent Scientist, EIP
  • 2016 — 2020
    Research Engineer, Rolls-Royce plc and University of Bristol
  • 2015
    Combat Service Engineering, Rolls-Royce plc
  • 2013 — 2014
    Gnome Programme Management, Rolls-Royce plc

Languages spoken

  • English

Specialisms

Digital

  • Electrical engineering
  • Electromechanical systems

Dynamics

  • Electrical engineering
  • Electromechanical systems
  • Materials engineering
  • Mechanics