Patents

Nick’s areas of expertise are physics and electronics, with a particular experience in microprocessor technologies. Nick is particularly active in processor design, various computer-implemented technologies, digital electronics, consumer devices and services, medical devices and industrial control devices.

Nick frequently drafts patent applications for filing in many different jurisdictions, guides each application through its subsequent patent prosecution and is experienced in strategic patent portfolio management. His clients range from individuals to global multinationals and he frequently travels to visit them - mainly to the USA and Far East.

Prior to joining D Young & Co, Nick was a post-doctoral research associate based at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), in Hamburg, Germany, where his research included searches for exotic particle production in positron-proton and electron-proton collisions.

Chartered patent attorney 2009; European patent attorney 2009; partner at D Young & Co 2011.

Publications of note: “Isolated electrons and muons in events with missing transverse momentum at HERA”. Phys. Lett. B, Vol. 561, Issue 3-4, 241-257; “Isolated leptons, W and single top at HERA”. Acta Phys.Polon.B33: 3911-3916.

Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA); European Patent Institute (epi); International Liaison Committee of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA); Software Related Inventions Committee of the American Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO).

University of Manchester (MPhys in Physics), including a year at the RWTH, Aachen, Germany; University of Manchester, based at DESY in Hamburg, Germany (PhD in High Energy Physics); Queen Mary College, University of London (Certificate in Intellectual Property Law, with distinction).