Alistair Hamilton - A Professional Biography

Alistair Hamilton	Chartered Patent Attorney European Patent Attorney Registered Trade Mark Attorney Community Trade Mark Attorney

Born	Glasgow, Scotland, 29 September 1964

Education	BSc (Hons) Mechanical Engineering (1989) University of Bath

Professional Qualifications	UK Registered Patent attorney 1993 European Patent Attorney 1993 UK Registered Trade Mark Attorney 1994 Professional Representative Before the OHIM (Community Trade Marks and Designs) 1996

Special Technical Experience and Example Patent Publication Numbers	Information Technology	Language Compilers Virtual Machines Mark-up language rendering engines Speech synthesis and speech recognition Semiconductor Fabrication Robot Programming Software Electronic trading systems GB2295906 WO2005083603 GB2419971
	Electronic and electrical engineering	Antenna technology including Satellite Receiving Antennas and Vehicle Screen Antennas Radar Powerline telecommunication systems Heating and cooker controls Fire Protection Systems Digital television Instrumentation Medical lasers WO97/33367, WO96/10275, GB2360365, GB2307763, WO2004/034774, WO2004/008081, GB2369057 GB2303978, EP0831506, GB2316818
	Mechanical and other technologies	Power Takeoff Systems and Gearboxes Packaging Technology Toys and Games Joint Prostheses Cooking Equipment Measurement and metrology WO2004/034774, WO2004/008081, GB2385317, GB2395466, GB2355070, GB2300163, GB2322688, EP0859303 EP1736678
	Please note that issues of client confidentiality prevent me from listing more example publications here.


My Practice Today	Having trained and worked with two long-established UK patent firms, I started my own practice at the start of 1999. In addition to working for my own clients, I act as a consultant to several prominent firms of patent attorneys in the UK and in Ireland. My particular aim is to offer intellectual property services of the highest quality, at highly competitive pricing made possible by my very low overheads.

My Computing Experience	Before starting university, I worked in computing. I developed control software for banking machinery in Z80 assembly language, and developed database and accounting applications in Pascal. I undertook several commercial programming contracts for the University of Bath, including Unix/C systems programming and Windows programming for computer aided engineering. My degree project included developing a graphical interface for an engineering simulation package in C for the X window system. More recently, I have programmed using Borland Delphi and in C, C++ and Python/Qt for Linux.