Chartered Patent Attorney (retired)
European Patent Attorney (retired)
BSc (Physics) Birmingham

Nick Fox-Male
Throughout his 42 year career as a Patent Attorney filing and prosecuting patent cases, Nick has additionally handled a wide variety of other matters including managing technology development and intellectual property for entrepreneurs and engineers, for example:
- Determining and project-managing high-value successful litigation actions
- Setting up and managing an in-house technology development engineering process
- Advising on, and implementing, patent strategies in a wide variety of commercial situations
- Reviewing patent portfolios for licensing opportunities and general commercial exploitation
- Attending to external submissions from inventors and entrepreneurs
Investigating and analysing technology reports.
During this long and broad career, he has developed an extensive and valuable international network of contacts in all relevant areas, covering investment, academic research, technology development, licensing, and specialist Intellectual Property Law.
Career
- Advancing Innovations Limited
- Patent Outsourcing Limited
- Potter Clarkson
- Honeywell International Inc
- THORN EMI plc
- BICC Limited
- J. A. Kemp.
Organisations that I've assisted
- University of Nottingham
- University of Nottingham Business School
- UK T&I
- Tech City
- Loughborough University
- The Prince’s Trust, Business Champions
- EMDA
- BioCity
- MediCity
- European Space Agency
Testimonials
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“Nick Fox-Male pro-actively worked with us to develop a comprehensive Intellectual Property Rights portfolio covering a variety of different rights for presentation to major New York investors.”
ROGER WALKER, CEO, Cygnus Homes & E-Riser Limited
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“Based on our specialist engineering knowledge, we have produced an innovative product which has significantly benefitted from Nick’s expert strategic analysis of parallel multi-territory IP protection.”
TIM LITT, PhD, BEng, MinstP, CPhys, Director, Agisen Limited
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“In support of licencing our flow cytometry technology in USA & Europe, Nick has provided essential and expert analysis and assistance about optimising protection for a number of products and services”
TONY BURPEE, Managing Director, Applied Cytometry Limited & Cybt Limited
Tel: 07906 915872
Email: nick@advancing-innovations.com
Email: nick@advancing-innovations.com