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Dr Darren Lewis
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Patents – electronics, engineering and IT group.
Position
Darren has technical expertise in a wide range of physics, electronics and mechanical subject matter. His practice includes clients in the fields of oil exploration, telecommunication networks, medical devices, radiation detection, optical devices and medical imaging. Darren’s clients range from individuals to large corporations. Darren has experience in drafting patent applications for world-wide prosecution, directing and co-ordinating patent prosecution in many different jurisdictions, opposition work, advising on infringement and validity issues and due diligence, as well as general patent portfolio management. Darren works closely with Miles Haines in serving OHM Limited in a wide range of IP areas, in particular patents. Darren has also recently increased his involvement with the Sony team, and in particular has worked closely with Jonathan DeVile in supporting a special project for Sony Corporation. Darren also manages world-wide prosecution of patent rights for telecoms architecture manufacturer Telsis Limited and a number of SME clients. Darren has recently been involved in the following case: Working with Miles Haines and with a Dutch patent attorney firm and UK based law firm Freshfield Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, successfully opposed two key European patents in the field of controlled source electromagnetic surveying for hydrocarbon reservoirs before the European Patent Office. The case involved parallel proceedings before the UK’s High Court where the UK patent (stemming from the European patent) was upheld on appeal. The patentee, represented by barrister Guy Burkill QC and instructed by Kilburn & Strode, lost in the opposition hearing at the EPO, thereby rendering the UK Appeal Court’s decision moot.
Career
Chartered patent attorney 2005, European patent attorney 2006, European design attorney. Darren has been at D Young & Co since entering the patent profession in 2001 and was appointed partner in 2010. Prior to this Darren worked for ten years in academia on the design, construction and deployment of astronomical instruments, time series and image analysis techniques, spacecraft operations at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center facility, and undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
Member
Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA); European Patent Institute (epi); Institute of Physics (IOP).
Education
University of Birmingham (BSc in Physics with Astrophysics; PhD in Experimental Physics); Queen Mary College, University of London (Certificate in Intellectual Property Law).
