Alan MacDougall

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Practice Areas

Alan’s practice areas include strategic IP advice, portfolio management and patent drafting and prosecution. He also has expertise in opposition and appeal proceedings before the EPO. Alan has detailed knowledge of networking and communications technologies, including specialist knowledge of mobile telecommunications standards and advises on essentiality and licensing activity in this area. He has extensive knowledge of robotics, control systems, navigation and routing systems, and sensing devices. Alan also advises extensively on software and business method related inventions, particularly in the financial services sector.

Career

Alan acts for clients of all sizes, including SMEs and large multinational companies, advising them on their IP strategies and managing their IP portfolios. He has significant experience in electrical, electronic, acoustics, communications and computing technologies. Alan has a first class honours degree in electrical and electronic engineering as well as a master’s degree in communications, digital signal processing and control from Strathclyde University. He qualified as a European patent attorney in 1997.

Professional Memberships

Alan is a member of the International AIPPI and regularly attends the APAA meetings as an observer. Alan has also signed the IP Inclusive Leaders’ Pledge and he is a member of the FICPI.

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