Nicholas Smears

Nicholas Smears is a Senior IP Counsel at Philips, where they focus on patent law and portfolio management. With extensive experience in industrializing various technology products, including RF and high-speed digital items, Nicholas has also served as a Principal Product Engineer at STMicroelectronics and a Senior Product Engineer at Nortel Semiconductors. They hold an MSc in Solid State Electronics and a BSc in Materials Science from The University of Manchester. Nicholas is recognized for their expertise in communications, semiconductor technologies, and growing fields such as medical and machine learning technologies.