Nicholas Fox

Partner

Nicholas joined IP Asset as a partner at the beginning of February 2010.

Nicholas is a European and Chartered British patent attorney, solicitor and intellectual property litigator. He initially qualified as a barrister and is also admitted to the bar in New York State. He has extensive experience as a patent attorney prosecuting patent applications across a wide variety of technologies ranging from image processing and acoustic engineering though to telecoms and  bioinformatics. He is also an experienced advocate and litigator, notably successfully representing five high-tech British companies in the Astron Clinica appeal in the High Court, prompting a change of UKIPO policy towards claims involving computer/software inventions.

Nicholas is the author of the practitioner’s work, A Guide to the EPC 2000, lectures on litigation and intellectual property matters for the European Patent Academy and is a guest lecturer at the University of London. In addition, Nicholas is also an appointed board member of IPREG, the regulatory authority for patent and trade mark attorneys in the UK.

In his spare time, Nicholas is a ballroom dancing enthusiast and is enjoying learning Japanese.