Robert Games, BEng (Hons)
Chartered British Patent Agent
European Patent Attorney
European Trade Mark and Design Attorney

 

Robert’s patent career began when he saw an advert for Patent Examiners at the UK Patent Office which read, “Can you separate the sheep from the goats?”  He worked as a Patent Examiner at the UK Patent Office for four years in the general engineering team and specialised in releasable fastenings and web processing. 

Subsequently, Robert moved to private practice and trained as a patent attorney in a thriving Midlands based firm, where he worked on a broad range of subject matter including:

• Knitting machines and needles
• Electrode discharge machining
• Locks, hinges and espagnolettes
• Mandrels for winding and dispensing film
• Methods of manufacturing novel plastics components
• Rotary engines
• Point of sale display devices
• Packaging

On 5 January 2004, Robert joined the engineering team at a leading firm in Bristol, and worked on a similarly broad range of subject matter including:

• Well bore liners and methods of installing well bore liners
• Aerospace, eg turbine blades, engine starting
• Oil rig top-side processing equipment, eg filters, separators, fluidising nozzles
• Aquatic products, eg interactive aquariums, filters
• Automotive, eg chassis design and build, drive line systems, steering systems
• Medical, eg biopsy equipment, surgical jigs, implants

As well as being a Patent Attorney, Robert enjoys spending time cabinet making, and is particularly fond of the odd weekend walking the coastal path with his wife in West Wales.

Adrian Hocking, BEng (Hons)
Chartered British Patent Agent
European Patent Attorney
European Design Attorney

 

Adrian graduated from Nottingham University with an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering and subsequently obtained a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education from Coventry University.

After three years working in Tokyo for a Japanese patent law firm, dealing with developments in digital photography, compression algorithms and translation matters, Adrian joined a leading national UK patent and trade mark firm where he qualified as a British Patent Attorney and a European Patent Attorney.

Adrian is a Fellow of the British Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), and has patent drafting and prosecution experience in a variety of fields, including :

 

• Electric motors
• IC engines
• Invalid hoists
• Weighing devices
• Shower trays, wet-floor formers, wastes, electric heaters, and bathroom furniture
• Surgical tools, prostheses, and methods
• Clutches
• Oil-fired and gas boilers
• Cleaning apparatus
• Access covers

Adrian leads an active life, enjoying the gym and cycling to work, as well as studying Japanese.