Ben specialises in all aspects of IP in software and data, with a particular focus on AI. He is regularly sought out by colleagues and clients for his expertise in this area, and has previously run weekly training sessions on deep learning for patent attorneys and solicitors at EIP.
As a driving force behind EIP’s Codiphy service, Ben helps businesses navigate the unique challenges and opportunities in the digital space. He understands the conflict felt by decision makers wishing to protect their revenue streams and investment, whilst also promoting collaboration to accelerate development, raise their company's profile, and attract top talent. He believes in a holistic approach to IP strategy: patents are a powerful tool, to be deployed in combination with a proper grip on trade secrets, open source, and IP-focused commercial agreements.
Clients stick with Ben for his ability to engage on a deep technical level, and to deliver advice like a human.
Published articles
- January 2025
TechRound, Experts Share: How The New AI Plan Will Impact UK Startups (link) - January 2025
WTR, “Britain will be one of the great AI superpowers,” pledges UK prime minister (link) - 30 October 2024
Law Society Gazette, The Great e-Scrape (link) - 18 October 2024
IAM, The artificial neural networks patenting debate (link) - October 2024
IAM Special Report 2024 Q3: Navigating IP In The Age of AI, The artificial neural networks patenting debate (link) - July 2024
EIP News Flashes, No Country for New Laws (link) - June 2024
TechRound, What Will Apple Intelligence Launch Mean For The Startup Scene? (link) - 13 March 2024
TechSpark, The Property of Intelligence: how AI can be IP (link) - January 2024
Solicitors Journal, Open and shut: IP tactics in the race for AI supremacy (link) - December 2023
EIP News Flashes, End of the line: DABUS reaches its final stop in the UK (link) - 21 December 2023
Compare the Cloud, The Paradox of Open-Source AI (link) - November 2023
EIP News Flashes, It’s been emotional: the High Court says goodbye to excluding AI inventions as computer programs (link) - September 2023
Automotive World, Is automotive's shift to open source software inevitable? (link) - June 2023
TechRound, TechRound’s AI Series: How Is AI Affecting Law? (link) - April 2023
EIP News Flashes, Tulip Mania - Can an individual or group be said to have de-facto control over a cryptocurrency network? (link) - April 2023
EIP News Flashes, The Deep Non-Thinker (link) - 24 October 2022
IAM, UK IPO case studies offer some clarity on AI invention patentability (link) - 26 September 2022
EIP Update, UKIPO Case Studies Open the Black Box on Examining Patent Applications Relating to AI Inventions (link) - 1 July 2022
EIP Update, Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property – the Government’s Plans to amend UK law – or not! (link) - March 2021
EIP Update, Reality check for patenting computer-implemented simulations at the EPO (link) - 20 June 2017
SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Journal on Applied Mathematics, Radiation from structured-ring resonators - 6 December 2016
IMA (Institute of Mathematics and its Applications) Journal of Applied Mathematics, Asymptotic analysis of a Bragg fibre: a multiple scales approach - 10 November 2016
Wave Motion, Dynamic homogenisation of Maxwell’s equations with applications to photonic crystals and localised waveforms on metasurfaces - 13 July 2016
Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Whispering Bloch modes
Education
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2024
Certificate in Intellectual Property Litigation -
2017 — 2018
Postgraduate Certificate in Intellectual Property Law , Queen Mary University of London -
2013 — 2016
PhD Applied Mathematics, Imperial College London -
2012 — 2013
MSc Applied Mathematics , Imperial College London -
2005 — 2008
BA Physics , University of Oxford
Career history
- 2025 — present
Partner, EIP - 2023 — 2025
Managing Associate, EIP - 2021 — 2023
Senior Associate, EIP - 2016 — 2021
Associate, EIP - 2008 — 2012
Physics & Maths Teacher / Head of Physics & Maths, Westminster Tutors, London - 2009 — 2011
Physics & Maths Tutor, Graveney School, London
Awards and recognition
- Recommended patent attorney, Legal 500 2025 (link)
- Recommended patent attorney, Legal 500, 2024 (link)
Speaking engagements
- 20 February 2025
Codiphy, Mind the Gap: Taking AI into Europe - 17 October 2024
Stobbs AI Summit, Copyright and Generative AI - 22 July 2024
Nokia Bell Labs, The Property of Intelligence - when AI meets IP - 18 July 2024
Codiphy, Stochastic Pirates - 6 March 2024
Codiphy, Headliners: winning with AI on both side of the pond and staying off the front page - 15 February 2024
Deeper Insights AI Governance Event, The Legal Wild West: a Developing Landscape for AI - December 2023
CIPA Webinar, Drafting Specifications for CIIs: Challenges Faced and Pitfalls to Avoid - 6 December 2023
CIPA Webinar , Patenting CIIs: Challenges Faced and Pitfalls to Avoid (co-presented) - 12 October 2023
Codiphy, Open source and AI panel (introduced and chaired) - May 2023
Codiphy Launch, The Promise and Peril of Generative AI - March 2023
EIP Sweden Launch, The emergence of generative AI
Specialisms
Digital
- AI
- Applied maths & cryptography
- Computer hardware
- Digital health
- Gaming and graphics
- Image and signal processing
- Medical imaging
- Software
- Telecommunications
HealthTech
- Digital health
- Medical imaging
- Personalised healthcare