Benjamin Gray

Background

Benjamin is a qualified UK Chartered Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney, based in the Dehns Bristol office.

Prior to joining Dehns, Benjamin graduated from the University of Exeter in 2019, with a Masters degree in Physics. Benjamin chose to study a wide range of physics during the course of his degree and has an affinity for condensed matter physics, quantum optics, photonics, and optical imaging techniques. In his final year Masters project he further explored optical imaging techniques by specialising in biophysics, investigating the physical properties of cell membranes using artificial physical models, particularly Droplet Interface Bilayers.

Benjamin qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 2024 and as a UK Chartered Patent Attorney in 2025. Benjamin is a part of the Quantum Computing team at Dehns and regularly attends quantum technology events in Bristol and around the UK.

Type of clients and client work

Benjamin regularly handles the drafting of new patent applications for large multinational clients, SMEs and universities. Benjamin has experience interacting directly with inventors and attorneys at the drafting, prosecution, and opposition stages for a range of clients, and provides pragmatic and easily understandable proposals to aid the client’s decision making.

Benjamin handles prosecution before the UK and European Patent Offices, and also has experience handling applications in a wide range of other territories worldwide including the US, Japan, China, and South Korea. Benjamin also has experience of assisting with patentability advice, patent portfolio reviews, due diligence reports, and of providing support during offensive and defensive oppositions.

Expertise

Benjamin handles work in a wide range of mechanical engineering and high-tech physics fields such as medical devices, aerospace technology (control systems, sensor systems, electromechanical devices, manufacturing machinery, and gas turbine engine technologies), elevator systems (control systems and testing systems and methods), oil and gas technologies (subsurface pump systems and subsurface navigation systems), and tobacco heating products (induction and resistive heating device technologies).

Qualifications and Memberships

• Basic Litigation Skills Course, 2025
• UK Chartered Patent Attorney, 2025
• European Patent Attorney, 2024
• Certificate in Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary University of London, 2021
• Member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA)
• Member of the Institute of Physics (IOP)

Higher Education

MPhys Physics, University of Exeter 2019