James Legg
Partner
European Patent Attorney
Chartered Patent Attorney
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James has a degree in Natural Sciences (specialising in Physics) from Cambridge University. He also has an MSc in Semiconductor Science and Technology from Imperial College, London. Before joining Abel & Imray in 1991 he worked briefly in industry on superconducting microcircuits.
James handles patent cases mainly in the electronics and software fields. His work has involved telecommunication technologies (including digital signal processing, channel coding and encryption, mobile phones, signal cabling connectors, ADSL and network switches (including in relation to VOIP)), general digital circuit techniques and analogue circuit techniques, power semiconductors, semiconductor fabrication, micromachine sensors and displays (Texas Instruments' deformable micromirror device), electromechanical sensors, sensor instrumentation and control engineering and personal computers. He also handles cases concerning optoelectronic materials and photonic devices. James has almost 25 years' practical experience of computer systems and programming (from 1980's assembly language to C#) and so he also enjoys cases involving any kind of software, which have ranged from instruction sets for microprocessors and compilers to automated design, bioinformatics and photocopier human interfaces. He has experience of litigation in the UK High Court (related to DRAMs) of hearings at the European Patent Office (examination, opposition and appeal) both in Munich and at the Hague, and successfully opposed the European patent for cold fusion. He has extensive experience of examination in the EPO.
He became a Partner in 1998 and is based in the firm's London office
赖格先生拥有剑桥大学物理硕士和帝国理工半导体硕士学位。他于1991年加入艾博英瑞，并于1998年成为事务所合伙人。在此之前，赖格先生一直从事超导微电路方面的工作。
赖格先生主要处理与模拟和数字电路、传感器、电信、计算机、软件、电子产品、半导体和超导设备以及材料等方面相关的专利事务。赖格先生精通计算机系统与编程，在欧洲专利局审核方面拥有丰富的经验，也擅长处理欧洲与英国专利诉讼和异议应对方面的案例。