Sunsets, Hawksfold Lane West, Fernhurst, West Sussex GU27 3NT.
Registered 1 December 1974

BSc, DMS, PhD, CEng, CPhys, FInstP, FIET, CPA

Professional career: 1959-1962 Electronic Engineer/Physicist Pye Ltd, Cambridge; 1962-1964 Senior Development Engineer/Group Leader ITT Semiconductors, Footscray (named as inventor in sixteen patents relating to early silicon integrated circuits); 1964-1968 Technical Assistant to Gordon Edmunds, ITT Patent Department, 1968 Consultant to Ministry of Technology and UK Semiconductor Manufacturers’ Consortium in litigation concerning the basic III-V semiconductor patent §23 proceedings for extension of term; 1968-1981 Patent Attorney/Assistant Patents Manager The Rank Organisation Ltd; 1982 Group Patents and Trademarks Controller Ronson International Limited; 1982-3 Consultant Ronson International (in Receivership) Ltd.; 1983-1990 Trademarks Licensing Consultant Tradam Trading Company (Bahamas) Ltd.; 1982-1983 Software Development Consultant Digitek International Ltd.; 1989-1991 Trademarks Licensing Consultant Ronson Consumer Products (Bahamas) Ltd.; 1986-1991 Trademarks Licensing Consultant Whitaker Investments Ltd., Turks and Caicos; 1982-1989 Managing Director Losco Ltd, Cranleigh; 1982-2001 Senior Patent Attorney British Technology Group; 1990 to date Internal Examiner for MSc in Management of Intellectual Property University of London; 1990-2004 Visiting Lecturer Queen Mary Centre for Commercial Law Studies; 2004 to date Senior Visiting Fellow Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute; 2001-2003 Consultant University of Sussex

Doctoral Thesis: 2004 “Technological Roulette – a multidisciplinary study of the dynamics of innovation” for PhD in law and technology

Papers or articles: 1964 IEE Colloquium on Field-Effect Transistors “A comparison between metal-oxide insulated-gate and epitaxial-junction-gate field-effect transistors”; 1965 STC Internal Report “An initial design study of transistors for 10Mc/s bandwidth submerged repeater applications”; 1965 Electronic Engineering “Silicon Field-Effect Transistors”; 1976 Polytechnic of Central London DMS dissertation “Patents in the Commercial Enterprise”; 1982 Queen Mary CIPA Centenary Lectures “Patents – an Industry View”; 1984 British Computer Society Seminar on Software Protection “Protection of software by means of patents”; 1987 Laboratory Practice “Patents pending – a comprehensive guide to the exploitation of innovative ideas”; 1981-1987 Practical Computing numerous reviews of early microcomputers and software; 1989 Institute of Physics Seminar on Patents “Commercial exploitation of patents”; 1991 Intellectual Property in Business “Patent trends analysis”; 2004 ESRC International Conference on Patents in North America and Europe “Fiat Lex – a study of the influence of law in the development of electric lighting”; 2004 UCL/IEE J. Ambrose Fleming Centenary Conference “The solid state advent – the early development of the transistor”; 2006 Gowers Review of Intellectual Property “Evidence on the role of intellectual property in the development of innovation”; 2007 CIPA Festschrift 125 “The Role of Intellectual Property in the Dynamics of Innovation.”

Textbooks: “Within the BBC Microcomputer – a reference manual for assembly language programmers” Losco Ltd; “Patents, Inventions and the Dynamics of Innovation – a Multidisciplinary Study” Edward Elgar Ltd.; “What Makes a Successful Innovation? – four case studies of inventions which changed the world economy” CIPA website.

Services to the Institute: Member of Exploitation, Competition and General Laws Committee.

Services to the profession outside the Institute: 1989 Member of an industrial panel invited to advise on the re-launching of the Queen Mary MSc in Management of Intellectual Property; 1990 to date, London University Examiner for the MSc in Management of Intellectual Property; since 1990 at Queen Mary Centre for Commercial Law Studies I have taught and examined well over 500 students in patent law and practice – most have joined the profession in this country, mainland Europe or the Far East.

Personal: 24 years service as a school governor; four years service on Surrey County Council school appeals tribunals; member in the 1980s of the BBC Computer Literacy Panel advising schools and the general public on use of computers; member of the Newcomen Society for the study of the history of engineering and technology.
I am presently working on my own ‘Grand Design’ retirement project – turning a bungalow into a house with a basement. This has involved preparing the initial plans and structural calculations, fighting a planning appeal (which, apart from the need to study planning law, proved easier than an appeal to the EPO), obtaining Building Regulations approval, project-managing construction together with a considerable amount of self-build bricklaying, carpentry, plumbing and wiring and, eventually, landscaping the associated woodland.
I have recently been invited to join a research project at the University of Leeds on the origins of creativity.