Stuart is a senior patent attorney in Dentons' London office. He is a member of the Technology, Media and Telecoms practice.

A highly experienced patent attorney, Stuart has drafted and prosecuted UK, European and foreign patent applications on behalf of clients. He has also conducted oppositions and appeals at the European Patent Office, infringement and validity opinions, freedom-to-operate analyses and patent revocation actions at the UKIPO.

Stuart enjoys working with a variety of clients, from start-ups to multinational corporations and everything in between. Many are UK-based, while others are in mainland Europe, Asia and North America.

He entered the patent profession after a successful engineering career in the commercial and defense aerospace industries.

Stuart held senior engineering positions at Astrium/Airbus and DERA/QinetiQ, where he undertook challenging projects for prestigious client organizations including the UK Ministry of Defence, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the European Space Agency, Rolls-Royce, Airbus and Boeing.

During his years in industry, Stuart gained strong technical capability in satellite propulsion. Having worked initially on telecommunications satellite projects, he later became the lead industrial engineer responsible for the propulsion systems of the European Space Agency’s Mars Express and Venus Express spacecraft.

Stuart has patent/technical expertise in:

• spacecraft propulsion systems
• gas turbine engines
• conceptual design of spacecraft and air vehicles (including UAVs and airships)
• aerospace structures and subsystems
• flight simulation (including mechanical systems, engines, autopilots and flight dynamics)
• automotive engineering
• oil and gas technologies
• medical devices
• printing technologies
• vaping devices
• metal-making technologies
• scientific apparatus
• agricultural equipment
• general engineering