Adrian Howes is head of IP and standards in Nokia’s IP regulatory affairs team. He has worked as a senior litigation counsel at Mylan, a legal consultant for Sony Computer Entertainment and an associate in the IP department of Bird & Bird. He is an English qualified lawyer. Howes’s work at Nokia encompasses policy and regulation on issues relating to IP rights, including involvement in cross-industry discussions on IP. Howes regularly attends IP rights meetings at the ITU, ETSI and NGMN and is involved in industry discussions on the interaction between standards and open source.