The principal of the practice, Keith Leaman, CPA, EPA, HNC (Mech. Eng), is a qualified engineer, having served an Engineering Apprenticeship with Westland Aircraft Ltd and their Subsidiary companies British Hovercraft Corporation and Normalair Garret Ltd before entering the patent profession. He has also held very senior  management positions in patents, trade marks and licensing within top blue chip companies such as, for example, Rolls Royce PLC (as Patent Manager), Courtaulds PLC and Courtaulds Textiles Ltd (Senior Patent Attorney And Trade Marks Manager ), Scipher PLC. and QED Patent And Trade Mark Attorneys (Managing Director), In addition, he has held very senior Patent Attorney and Trade Mark Attorney positions in top private Chartered Patent Attorney practices in London, Leicester, Birmingham, and Rugby, has managed a patent licensing Company that earnt millions of pounds sterling for clients, and handled successful litigation actions to enforce IPR in many countries for clients.