James is a dual-qualified patent attorney working in Manchester's software and electronics patent team. He assists with various aspects of the team's work including the drafting patent specifications and the prosecution of patents at the EPO, UKIPO and abroad. His work is focussed on 5G telecommunications standards, speech recognition algorithms, medical applications of AI and other uses of software. He also has experience in physics and engineering, having drafted applications related to lithography and manufacturing tools. James is familiar with working with a range of clients from one-person start-ups to large multi-national companies.

James graduated from the University of Birmingham with a PhD in Particle Physics and an MSci in Physics with Particle Physics and Cosmology with a Year in Computer Science. During his PhD and post-doctoral work, he was part of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN and contributed to the data analysis, upgrade studies and operations of the ATLAS detector. His thesis was on the single dissociative diffraction of proton-proton collisions.