Associates

Mike Jennings
Associate
Patent Attorney
mjj@aathornton.com

Mike graduated in 1989 with an honours degree in physics from the University of Bristol in the UK.  He is a qualified European Patent Attorney and UK Chartered Patent Attorney.  Mike handles patent matters for a range of technologies including electrical and electronics inventions and computer-related inventions.  Mike joined the electrical patents team in 2007 after gaining deep experience in computer-related technologies as a Senior Patent Attorney within IBM Corporation’s in-house intellectual property law department, where he handled prosecution of European, PCT and UK patent applications in areas such as semiconductor devices and processing, computer circuitry and processors, storage systems, computer software and computer-related services.  Mike has a lot of experience in identification and selection of inventions for patent filing, drafting patent specifications, patent licensing and advising on other intellectual property.  Mike also has experience representing a wide range of international and UK-based clients, handling patent work in physics-related and computing technologies in both the UK and Australia.  He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys’ Computer Technology Committee.