Boult Wade Tennant LLP

Jason, is a Chartered Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney in the High Tech and Electrical Group

Partner

I have over 20 years’ experience in the field of intellectual property and a background in IT consulting and software engineering.

Having worked in industry as an IT consultant at Logica, I have first-hand experience of clients’ IP objectives. Later, as a software research engineer at Sony working on video processing and cryptography, I was an inventor on around 50 patent families, so I know how to work with inventors and speak their language, getting around a whiteboard and guiding them through the IP process. I make the most of this background to ensure that our clients’ experiences are as positive, accessible and straightforward as possible.

I mostly focus on areas of technology that lie close to the border between patentable and non-patentable subject-matter: software, algorithms, machine learning, business methods, mathematics, etc. Many of my clients work in emerging technologies that push the limits of what is or is not patent-eligible, and that call for creative solutions to successfully navigate the IP challenges they bring.

I work for a diverse range of clients, from large multinationals to universities and smaller, more local businesses. With a passion for maths, software and IT, anything remotely related to these fields piques my interest: artificial intelligence, cryptography and data security, database management and optimisation, audio/video processing, data compression and network communications, to name but a few.

CIPA EPI

Chartered UK Patent Attorney European Patent Attorney Certificate in Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary University of London (awarded the Bill Caro prize for coming top of year) MSc Mathematics and the Foundations of Computer Science, University of Oxford BA (Hons) Mathematics, University of Oxford