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
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2021
Post Graduate Certificate in Intellectual Property, Bournemouth University -
2019
CEng MIMechE, Chartered Engineer, Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers -
2016 — 2021
EngD, Composite Manufacture, University of Bristol -
2011 — 2016
MEng, Integrated Engineering, Cardiff University
Career history
- 2024 — present
Associate, EIP - 2020 — 2024
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