Ed Round advises clients operating in a variety of business sectors, but with a focus on advanced electronic technologies. He has extensive experience of the complex legal issues surrounding patent protection of computer-implemented inventions, obtaining patent protection for clients, allied with advising on other aspects of IP management such as infringement risk, patent validity, and the impact of SEPs. He has a background in communications engineering, and has harnessed this to advise businesses on the impact of IP to communications technologies. Round also has substantial experience of providing clients with strategic commercially-focused advice.