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Doug Ealey Associate Chartered Patent Attorney European Patent Attorney European Design Attorney Office Location: Southampton

Specialist Fields

• Mobile telecommunications
• Signal processing and adaptive systems
• Internet applications and infrastructure
• Computing (hardware and software)
• Display technologies
• Consumer electronics
• Computer entertainment systems
• Acoustics

Technical Background

Degree in Acoustic Engineering (1992) and PhD thesis in Neural Network Architecture (1999), Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton.
Research engineer for the Defence Research Agency (now QinetiQ) between 1992 and 1995.

Research engineer for Motorola Labs between 1999 and 2002, with work on distributed speech recognition being incorporated into 3G standard.

Professional Experience

Certificate in Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

Experience in both private practice and industry.

Experienced in drafting and obtaining patent applications world-wide.

Experienced managing in-house portfolios for Motorola UK Ltd.

Clients have included major consumer electronics companies, research groups and start-ups.

Publications

UKPA Study Guide: http://ukpaguide.blogspot.com