Tim joined Dehns in June 2019 after finishing a DPhil in Materials Science at the University of Oxford, where he worked on developing new techniques for jointing superconducting wires in MRI scanners. Prior to that, Tim graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MSci in Natural Sciences, specialising in Materials Science, where he was awarded the Goldsmiths’ prize and medal for the highest mark in final year Materials Science examinations. Tim qualified as a UK Patent Attorney in 2023 and as a European Patent Attorney in 2024. Tim became an Associate of the firm in 2025.
Tim currently works with a wide variety of clients including multiple large multinational companies. His work includes drafting and prosecuting patent applications to grant before the UK and European Patent Offices, as well as managing the prosecution of applications in a wide variety of other jurisdictions, including the US, Japan and China. Tim is also regularly involved in opposition and appeal proceedings before the EPO.
Tim works across a variety of engineering fields including computing, semiconductor devices, consumer products and their manufacturing processes, and consumer electronic devices.
MSci in Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge, 2015
DPhil in Materials Science, University of Oxford, 2019