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James Seymour
Work Department
EIP Digital, EIP Legal, EIP Strategy.
Position
Partner, UK and European Patent Attorney
Career
James is Head of SEP, advising on Standard-Essential Patents across all technology areas, including telecommunications, wireless, video and audio coding. His practice focuses on advising clients on patent infringement and validity matters and the valuation and enforceability of SEP portfolios. He has been involved in a number of high profile litigation cases in the UK, US, and Germany; and in patent pool, licensing, acquisition and divestment transactions. James is well placed to advise clients on the new Unified Patent Court (UPC) – see further details at EIP Amar, our alliance created to support clients in any litigation before the UPC.
James is highly skilled in navigating technical standards relating to GSM, UMTS, LTE, New Radio (5G), and IMS cellular technologies, and standards relating to H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC) video compression.
Before joining EIP, James spent 18 years working as in-house patent counsel for Nokia and Hewlett-Packard in the UK, USA and Singapore. James is a qualified UK and European Patent Attorney and holds a UK IP Litigation Certificate. He passed the US Patent Bar while working in the US, and qualified to practice before the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore while working in Singapore.
- 2012 — present
Partner, EIP - 2002 — 2012
Various including Head of Patenting Operations, Nokia - 1999 — 2002
IPR Counsel, Agilent Technologies - 1998 — 1999
IPR Counsel, Hewlett-Packard
Memberships
AIPPI
Education
- UK Chartered Patent Attorney, 2003
- European Patent Attorney, 2000
- 2006
Business of IP, Scandinavian International Management Institute1995
Certificate in Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary, University of London - 1991 — 1994
BSc Physics, University of Bristol