Martin Terry, Associate
Qualifications
Chartered Patent Attorney
European Patent Attorney
MSci(Hons) Physics with Astrophysics
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Martin joined Swindell & Pearson Ltd in February 2010 having trained and professionally qualified with a leading London firm of Patent & Trademark Attorneys after completing his degree in Physics with Astrophysics at the University of Bristol. Martin has experience in dealing with inventions in a wide range of technologies (including telecommunications and software related inventions) from a wide range of clients such as individuals, university spin out companies and multinational corporations.
Outside of work Martin enjoys: travel, cricket and pottery.
“A patent of significance to me personally (and my family) is George Carwardine’s “Improvements in Elastic Equipoising Mechanisms”, GB489,547 dating back to the 1930’s. George’s invention related to an extremely versatile positioning mechanism which, using a system of springs, could move in 3 planes and was so well balanced that it would remain static in any chosen position. George made use of his elastic equipoising mechanism in the manufacture of lamps and used elastic springs made by my greatgreat grandfather Herbert Terry. In 1934 Herbert’s company, Herbert Terry & Sons, acquired a license to the patent in order to manufacture the lamps themselves. The “Equipoise” lamps have been developed over the years and today go by the somewhat better known name of Anglepoise Lamps."