Dan Mercer Assistant   Office Location: Southampton

Specialist Fields

• Mobile telecommunications
• Microelectronics
• Digital signal processing
• Semiconductor design and fabrication
• Computing (hardware and software)
• Control systems

Technical Background

MEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Professional Experience

Industrial experience as an engineer at Vodafone UK until 2005 including work developing "4G" next generation mobile telecommunications protocol.

Patent experience at D Young & Co since 2005.

Certificate in Intellectual Property (Queen Mary, University of London).

Experience in UK and European drafting and prosecution work, patent searching and foreign prosecution, including US, Japan and China.

Societies and Council Membership

Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology.