Ian Bingham
Owner, IP Asset
Ian is a European & British patent attorney and Registered Trade Mark Attorney as well as a Rolls-Royce trained mechanical engineer with a HND in Mechanical Engineering and has some thirty years’ experience in diverse technologies ranging from Aerospace materials to Medical Equipment.
Ian also worked as an in-house attorney for Rolls-Royce, British Aerospace, Massey-Ferguson, BOC (industrial gases) as well as BTG PLC which specializes in technology transfer. He was deputy Director of IP at BTG where he specialized in identifying commercially valuable and patentable technologies and helping commercialise them by way of licensing, sale or litigation. Ian has a broad knowledge of standards related IP matters and has recently contributed a chapter to Graham Richard’s new book entitled University Intellectual Property in which he explores the issues from the viewpoint of a Patent Attorney.
Ian has a wealth of experience in analysing patentable subject matter and applying due diligence processes to the evaluation of IP opportunities. Some twenty years’ experience of commercializing IP is now used to help clients create and extract value from ideas and helps them explain the commercial opportunity and how the IP helps support potential investments. Ian is an expert level user of advanced software based patent analysis tools such as those provided by Questel and Thompson Innovations and has used them extensively to identify licence / collaboration opportunities, potential infringement situations / license opportunities and to identify relevant prior art and analyse trends in the patent landscape.
Ian established IP Asset LLP ten years ago and is supported by five other attorneys each of which specialize in a different technical area.