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Dr
Vincent
Jennings

Patent Director

Sheffield Office

Electronics

Telephone. +44(0) 114 274 3700
Email. [email protected]
UPC Representative
Our team of specialist European patent litigators, oppositions specialists and patent attorneys bring together an extensive depth of legal and technical knowledge and are qualified to represent you in the UPC.

Experience

Vincent has worked in private practice in Japan and the UK, and has broad experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the electrical and mechanical fields. Vincent has advised on subject matter including telecommunications, 2D and 3D printing technology, LCD displays, optical storage media and devices, memory arrays, semiconductor fabrication, computer software and document processing systems.

Although mainly representing large international corporations, Vincent also advises universities, SME's and individuals.

Vincent began his patent career in Osaka, Japan, where he gained experience of prosecuting US, European, Japanese and Chinese patent applications, and progressed to manage a team prosecuting electrical and mechanical patent applications. On returning to the UK, Vincent qualified as a UK and European patent attorney.

Vincent holds a master's degree in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Warwick and a PhD, also from the University of Warwick. His PhD research involved computer simulations of crystals, particularly ferroelectric perovskites. He presented the results of his research at various national and international conferences.

Qualifications

Patent Attorney

Chartered (UK)
Europe


MPHYS

MPhys (Maths and Physics)

PHD

PhD - Computational Simulations of Perovskites

Conferences: 2021

March 2nd 2021

Child Health Technology Conference 2021

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