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Simon is a Chartered Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney in the High Tech and Electrical Group. He assists with the preparation, filing and prosecution of patent applications in the UK, Europe and other national jurisdictions including Japan, China and Korea. He frequently assists with freedom-to-operate searches. Simon works with a range of clients from small, independent clients to large corporations across a range of industry sectors.

Prior to joining Boult Wade Tennant Simon worked as a research fellow at the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste. His primary area of research was in the development of computational methods for predicting absorption spectra of various organic dyes. Throughout his research Simon has gained invaluable expertise in the fields of software development and algorithm design.

Simon has an MSci Theoretical Physics and a PhD in Physics, both from University College London. His PhD research included the calculation of surface properties of large extended systems to within chemical accuracy using a wide range of computational treatments, including ab initio quantum chemistry and quantum Monte Carlo methods.

Publications include: IAM’s Europe, Middle East and Africa Patent Prosecution Review 2024: Specialist Chapter, Patenting computer-implemented inventions at the EPO and How to register AI patents in Asia-Pacific and Europe: the dos and don’ts

 

Memberships

CIPA

EPI

Qualifications

Chartered UK Patent Attorney

European Patent Attorney

PhD Physics, University College London

MSci Theoretical Physics, University College London

Certificate in Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary University of London

Sectors

Computer architecture

Physics

Software and software engineering

Telecommunications

Practice areas

Audio/signal processing

Bio-informatics

Computer architecture

Cryptography

Artificial intelligence

Secure software

Quantum computing

Blockchain

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34 Bridge St
Reading
RG1 2LU
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