Shakeel Ahmad

Partner

Chartered Patent Attorney
European Patent Attorney
Chartered Engineer

BSc Electronics with Computer Science, University College Swansea
DPhil Biomedical Engineering, University of Sussex

Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology
Member of AIPLA

Shakeel (Shak) heads up Keltie's IT, Telecoms and Electronics team and advises on patent issues regarding various areas of technology, but spends most of his time with inventions related to his specialist fields.

Shak has specific experience and interest in Internet-related inventions, software-related technology, computer graphics generation, mobile telecommunications, digital audio and video processing, data encryption and security, business methods including e-commerce financial exchanges, electronic instrumentation, medical human parameter measurement devices, data communications including messaging technology, banknote validation, microprocessor design and optical data storage.

His practice is a mixture of drafting and prosecuting patent applications around the world to grant, litigating patents in the UK and US, and undertaking due diligence for various M&A and IPO activities. Shak enjoys the diversity of working for a range of clients from large corporates to start-up companies; each requiring a different skill set for maximising the commercial benefits of various national patent laws.

Keltie's IT, Telecoms and Electronics team is praised by the 2008 Legal 500 for its "exceptionally fine work".

Managing Intellectual Property says that "of the strong team, Shakeel Ahmad is singled out by peers for the strength of his technical work".

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