Dr. Jim Adams

Director and Founder

Chartered UK Patent Attorney

European Patent Attorney

European Trademark and Design Attorney

IP Patent Litigator

I am a UK and European Patent Attorney with 24 years of patent experience specialising in the fields of software, electronics and high-value manufacturing, including mechanical products, industrial control software, business software, semiconductors and optics.

I founded Lean IP after hearing more and more of my clients and prospects talking about lean. Having reached the level of six sigma black belt at Motorola, I realised that Lean IP can kill two birds with one stone - improving value for both my own clients and my clients' customers.

For my A-level project I wrote a Z80 disassembler in machine code. While a Physics undergraduate, as a sideline I developed accounts and stock control software. My PhD and subsequent research work focussed on fabrication and testing of nanometre-scale transistors and other very small structures. At Motorola I managed a semiconductor product analysis laboratory, having worked as a yield improvement engineer on a variety of products including System on Chip (SoC) devices, smartcards and microcontrollers. I was introduced to the patent profession when I needed a patent attorney to protect my own software invention.