High speed inkjet printing technology developer Memjet has appointed two patent counsel, one to work from its Sydney office.

The company settled its differences with Australian cofounders and their Silverbrook Research business in May and was a highly-visible presence at DRUPA that month. Memjet holds more than 5000 patents worldwide, with 700 more pending.

In the newly created role of chief patent counsel, Ben Miller – credited with being the architect of Qualcomm’s intellectual strategies – will oversee Memjet’s foreign and domestic intellectual property portfolio and manage all legal matters related to the portfolio, based in San Diego.

David Osborn, who was inhouse patent attorney for Silverbrook for nine years, has become Memjet’s patent counsel, based in Sydney. A former senior technical assistant for mechanical and chemical teams at the intellectual property law firm of Sydney-based Baldwin Shelston Waters (now Shelston IP), he has a BSc with honours in chemistry from Oxford University and a doctorate in organic synthesis from Cambridge.

Memjet’s IP portfolio centres on revolutionary printheads and the use of microelectromechanical mystems. Its technology is being used by office and industrial printer makers including LG, Lenovo, Océ, Toshiba TEC and Delphax.

“With our recent acquisition of all Memjet intellectual property and the creation of Memjet Australia, a top priority as a company is our patent strategy,” chairman and chief executive Len Lauer  says.