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Tom Furnival

Partner, Patent Attorney · Mewburn Ellis LLP

EnglandIntellectual Property, Patent Prosecution

About

Partner and patent attorney at Mewburn Ellis LLP who handles drafting, prosecution and oppositions (particularly defensive oppositions) and advises on freedom-to-operate, infringement and registered designs across engineering, electronics, computing and physics. He qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 2017 and as a Chartered Patent Attorney in 2018 and joined the partnership in 2022.

Practice areas

Intellectual PropertyPatent ProsecutionPatent Litigation

Office

Expertise

PhotonicsOptical Devices and Laser Design (including Optronics and Detection Technology)Telecommunication SystemsSemiconductor Devices and FabricationMedical Devices (including Augmented Reality Systems for Surgical Assistance)Power Supplies and Power ManagementComputer Hardware and SoftwareBioinformaticsMachine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Education

  • Master's degree in Physics, University of Exeter
  • Two years' research into the solid-state theory of memristors

Admissions

  • European Patent Attorney (qualified 2017)
  • Chartered Patent Attorney (qualified 2018)