Henry Ward has a BA and M.Eng. in Engineering from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, specialising in civil and mechanical engineering, and particularly petroleum and offshore engineering. A member of Middle Temple and an Astbury Scholar, he was called to the Bar in 2000. He previously served in the Queen's Gurkha Engineers in Hong Kong, Brunei and Nepal.

Henry's practice has covered a large number of aspects of Intellectual Property law, including patents, copyright and designs, trade marks, confidential information, malicious falsehood. Cases in which he has been involved have involved subjects as diverse as philatelists, hot air balloons, and Pop Idol. He has also spent much of his time on various Ultraframe cases including design right and patent issues as well as the landmark case before Lewison J on fiduciary duties and the diversion of corporate opportunities.

Recent trials have included:

Research in Motion v Visto Corporation – This was a patent case involving the BlackBerry handheld devices and Visto’s email synchronisation systems. RIM alleged that Visto’s patent was invalid for obviousness as well as excluded matter, whilst Visto alleged that two of RIM’s patents were invalid for obviousness.

Aloys Wobben v Vestas-Celtic Wind Technology Limited. A patent trial in June 2007 before Mr Justice Kitchin which involved three separate patents, all of which were concerned with the control systems of wind energy systems i.e. wind turbines and the interaction between such turbines and the electrical grids to which they are connected. The requirements of the network operator in relation to the behavior of various types of generation under fault conditions and under varying load conditions was central to the dispute. Henry was led by James Mellor QC.

University of Queensland v. Siemens a patent action before Mr Justice Pumfrey in July 2007 concerning MRI magnets. Henry was led by Peter Prescott QC.