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Mark Shelley graduated from University College Swansea in 1988 with an Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering and from there joined his undergraduate sponsor in the aerospace industry, specialising in the design, structural analysis and design verification testing of high integrity, high temperature, failure critical gas turbine engine components.
Seeking a new challenge Mark transferred to his employer’s Intellectual Property Department in 1992 to train as a patent attorney. Mark obtained a post graduate certificate in Intellectual Property Law from the University of London in 1993 and qualified as a patent attorney in 1997.
Mark has worked in-house for two leading UK based technology companies, Rolls-Royce Plc and British Telecommunications Plc, as well as the UK Government’s only in-house Patent Department, MOD/DERA (as it then was). Mark joined K R Bryer & Co in 2000 and became a Partner in 2001.
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Mark specialises in mechanical and electrical engineering technologies, with a particular emphasis on gas turbine engine technology, automotive technology, telecommunications, software and electronics. His clients include Blue Chip technology companies, as well as lesser known SMEs and individual inventors.
Mark has recently worked as an Examiner for the Joint Examination Board, the official body charged with the Examination of Students of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents for entry on the Register of Patent Agents in the United Kingdom.
Mark has considerable experience before both the UK Intellectual Property Office and the European Patent Office (EPO) and has represented clients in proceedings before the Examining and Opposition Division and Appeal Boards of the EPO, where he has also represented clients at Hearings.
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