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Miles Haines Partner Chartered Patent Attorney European Patent Attorney European Design Attorney European Trade Mark Attorney Office Location: Southampton

Specialist Fields

• Physics-based technology areas, electronics and software
• Optics
• Semiconductors
• Geophysics for the oil industry
• Touch sensing and display technology
• Medical imaging

Technical Background

First Class Honours Degree in Physics with Semiconductor Science, Hull University 1986.

Industrial research with British Telecom Research Labs, Martlesham Heath 1986 & GEC Research Labs, Wembley 1987.

PhD in Semiconductor Optics, Heriot-Watt University 1990.

Royal Society Research Fellow, Schottky Institute for Semiconductor Electronics, Technical University of Munich 1990-1992.

Chartered Physicist 1994.

Professional Experience

Patent experience in private practice in Munich, London and Southampton since 1992.

Joined D Young & Co in 1998 and became a Partner in 2001.

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

Handles a balance of patent procurement, advisory, opposition and enforcement work.

Extensive experience with company creation and development, especially from Universities, including due diligence for company acquisition and providing product clearance opinions.

Direct representation before the UKIPO, EPO and International Bureau, as well as managing worldwide prosecution of patent families before the USPTO, JPO and other national patent offices.

Selected Technical Publications

Author of 14 scientific publications including:

• M.Haines et al "Raman characterization of molecular beam epitaxy grown GaAlSb on GaSb and GaAs substrates" J.Appl.Phys. 65,1942(1988)
• M.Haines et al "Optical phonon energies in pseudomorphic alloy strained layers" Appl.Phys.Letts. 55,849(1989)
• M.Haines et al "Proposal for an all semiconductor combined spectrometer and detector" Phys.Rev.Letts. 64,48(1990)
• M.Haines et al "Exciton binding energy maximum in GaInAs/GaAs quantum wells" Phys.Rev.B 43,11944(1991)
• M.Haines et al "Observation of interface plasmon modes in (GaAl)As heterostructures by Raman spectroscopy" Int.Conf.Phys. Semiconductors, Peking, China, August 1992 (World Scientific 1992)
• M.Haines et al "Angular Dispersion of GaAs Optical phonons in GaAs/AlAs superlattices" Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Phonons in Nanostructures, Barcelona 15-18 September 1992 (Kluwer)

Societies and Council Membership

Member of the Institute of Physics. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys.

Languages

Fluent German

Other Interests/Activities

Co-founder of nanotechnology firm Attocube Systems AG.

Qualified football coach.