Patents

Jonathan has extensive experience in drafting and obtaining patent applications worldwide and contentious issues including litigation, oppositions, strategic assistance on infringement, licensing issues and due diligence matters, and continues to attract work from his clients in the fields of electronics and software, and particularly wireless technologies, both broadcast and mobile technologies, telecommunications engineering, internet protocols and applications, image and signal processing, and mobile communications.

Jonathan also has litigation experience and is active in appeals, litigation and due diligence exercises for clients. He has a keen interest in standards related patents and is often asked to prepare patent applications for standards related inventions.

European patent attorney 1999; chartered patent attorney 1999; chartered engineer 1996. Jonathan joined D Young & Co in 1999, partner 2002.

Jonathan has previous experience with Roke Manor Research as a research engineer from 1990 to 1994, and then as a patent engineer for Siemens UK and Siemens AG Munich from 1995 to 1999, where he worked on a range of technologies and qualified as a UK and European patent attorney. He was also on the team at VSEL (now BAE Systems) between 1985 and 1987 training as a graduate engineer before leaving to start his PhD.

German.

Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA); European Patent Institute (epi); CIPA International Liaison Committee; Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET).

University of Manchester (BSc Electronic and Electrical Engineering; PhD in Communications Research); Queen Mary College, University of London (Certificate in Intellectual Property Law).