James Turner Partner Chartered Patent Attorney European Patent Attorney Office Location: Southampton

Specialist Fields

• Digital and Analogue Video, Audio and Image processing, storage and compression
  
• Lasers, fibres and optical communication

Technical Background

MA in Physics, Keble College, University of Oxford.

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

Awarded Gill prize for highest marks in the 1992 UK qualifying examination.

Professional Experience

Industrial experience as an engineer with the BBC 1987-89. Patent experience with IBM UK Intellectual Property Department 1989-91.

Joined D Young & Co in 1991 and became a Partner in 1996.

Extensive experience working for direct and agency clients in Japan and other Asian countries.

Languages

Conversational French.

Institute of Linguistics Preliminary Certificate in written and spoken Japanese.