Mathys & Squire LLP

Intellectual property

Sean is an expert in the drafting of intellectual property (IP) agreements, IP licences and in the drafting and prosecution of European and UK patent applications. His principal areas of technical expertise are electronics, medical devices, and software.

In addition to patent drafting and IP strategy, Sean also advises on negotiation of IP licences and IP agreements, and has successfully represented SME clients in licence negotiations with Tier 1 automotive manufacturers and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).

Sean specialises in drafting patent applications tailored to address the sensitivities of US litigation and the restrictions of European Patent Office (EPO) prosecution whilst also dealing with the exclusions from patentability of computer programs, mathematical methods, methods of diagnosis, and methods of treatment by surgery and therapy. In addition, his practice also includes: prosecution; advice on infringement and validity; and EPO oral proceedings relating to examination, oppositions and appeals.

Sean’s technical expertise includes electronics; medical devices; signal processing; network communications; computer implemented inventions. As well as, analytical and metrological devices including spectrometry, interferometry, and surface contact metrology.

Sean holds a master’s degree and a PhD in physics, both from the University of Nottingham. His doctorate related to MRI of the human brain and included work relating to RF and gradient sequences, passive and dynamic shimming, signal sampling schemes, and associated advanced digital signal processing (ICA/PCA, multivariate statistics, recursive time series analysis, and wavelet methods). This work also involved procedural and object oriented programming for data analysis and for data acquisition and control.