Humphreys & Co.

Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright, designs and patents.

Senior Associate Solicitor

Qualified as a solicitor in 1974 with Coward Chance (now Clifford Chance). For many years Director of the University of Bristol School of Law’s prestigious Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice, and now Emeritus Professor of Law in the University of Bristol. Appointed Person appointed by the Lord Chancellor under the Trade Marks Act 1994 to hear appeals from decisions of the Trade Mark Registrar, 2001 - 2021. Awarded CBE for services to Intellectual Property in 2017. First with Humphreys & Co. in 1987.

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Law Society.  Active in the International Trademark Association for many years, having served as a member of the Board of Directors, Chair of the Trademark Office Practices Committee and Vice-Chair of the International Amicus Committee.  Received INTA President’s Award, November 2010.  Principal Editor of INTA’s Practitioner’s Guide to the Madrid Agreement and Madrid Protocol.

University of Durham, BA in Law, First Class (Hons.)