John Kinton is the Chief Legal Officer of Access Advance LLC, an independent licensing administration company, currently offering three industry-leading patent pools for licensing essential patents of the most important standards-based video codec technologies.  John is a US lawyer, a Solicitor to the Senior Courts of England and Wales., and a registered patent attorney before the USPTO.  He has over 25 years of experience in intellectual property, with roles in-house and in private practice as an IP trial lawyer.  He has experience in various jurisdictions including the US, the UK, Germany, Brazil, Norway and Canada.  His patent litigation experience includes SEP litigation related to the HEVC, AVC, MPEG, JPEG, JEDEC, CDMA and 3GPP standards.