Robin Rickard

Senior Associate, UK and European Patent Attorney
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London
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rrickard@eip.com

Biography

Robin is a UK and European Patent Attorney who deals with patents in the electronics sector, including wireless and telecommunications. He has drafted and prosecuted patents relating to cellular radio standards, in particular 3GPP, adaptive and smart antennas, coding and decoding techniques, radars, telemetry systems, oscillators and power amplifiers, as well as the Ethernet data network.

He worked for many years in R&D in wireless and radio frequency engineering, in particular designing adaptive antennas, microwave links, and radio links using spread spectrum and spectrally efficient modulation techniques. He was a pioneer in the development of power line communications and has significant experience of satellite links, cable TV and optical communications systems including passive optical networks and coherent optical fibre receivers.

Robin has a Masters in Electrical Engineering from King's College, University of London and a degree in Physics from the University of Bristol.

Recent Work
Publications
  • Supreme Court defines “intellectual property” and the scope of privilege against self-incrimination - Entertainment Law Review (April 2013)
  • “Generation and Propagation of a 1550 nm 10 GBit/s Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed Signal over 1000m of Multimode Fibre Using Directly Modulated DFB”, Jolley N.E., Kee H, Rickard R.P., Tang J - OFC 2005, Anaheim (2005)
  • “A Practical Realisation of a PLC Modem System: Design Aims and results”, Rickard R.P. - ISPLC2000, Limerick (2000)
  • “A Pragmatic Approach to Setting Limits for Radiation from Powerline Communications Systems”, Rickard R.P. and James, J - International Symposium on Power-line Communications and its Applications, Lancaster 1999 (1999)
  • “The Design of an Analogue Beamformer for Adaptive Antennas”, Wilson, F.M., Rickard, R.P - IEE Colloquium Electronic Beam Steering (Oct 1988)
  • “Coexistence of Wideband Carriers above 2 MHz on the LV Distribution Network with Radio Systems”, Rickard, R.P - Powerline Communications Forum, Dusseldorf (Nov 1997)
  • “Adaptive Antenna for Scanning Telemetry”, Rickard, R.P., Wainman, P.A., David, M - IEE Colloquium, The Strand (Dec 1994)
Robin Rickard
Senior Associate, UK and European Patent Attorney
Education
  • Post Graduate Certificate in Intellectual Property Law (Merit) - Queen Mary University of London (2006 — 2007)
  • MEng Electrical Engineering - King's College, University of London (1985 — 1988)
  • BSc Physics - University of Bristol (1977 — 1980)
Languages Spoken
Career History
  • Senior Associate at EIP (2015 — present)
  • Associate at EIP (2007 — 2015)
  • Consultant at Orthogon Systems (2005 — 2007)
  • Manager, Microwave Signal Processing at Nortel Networks, Harlow Laboratories (1981 — 2005)
Specialisms
  • Digital: Automotive electronics, Electrical engineering , Image and signal processing, Photonics and optics, Robotics, Semiconductors, Telecommunications
  • Dynamics: Electrical engineering , Robotics
  • Elements: Semiconductors
Robin Rickard
Senior Associate, UK and European Patent Attorney

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