Bob Weston Council Member

Member of the Short Term Working Group and Trade Mark Committee.

Phillips & Leigh, 5 Pemberton Row, London EC4A 3BA. 

Registered  1 October 1974

HNC Electronic Engineering with Microelectronics Endorsement; Member Institution of Electrical Engineers..

Professional career: 1961-1966 Assistant Experimental Officer Royal Naval Scientific Service. Joined Phillips & Leigh in 1966 as office boy, now Senior Partner.

Papers or articles: At least two Informals lectures; on Paper P6 (Infringement and Validity); one Informals lecture on Paper P3 (Drafting); two CIPA articles, one on Intent to Use Trade Mark Applications in United States and one on Paper P6 (Infringement and Validity); Co-organised Institute Seminar on Community Trademark Opposition in United Kingdom and Germany; Speaker at joint Institute-ITMA Seminar on 1994 Trademarks Act .

Services to Institute: CIPA Vice-President 2006-7 Honorary Secretary Informals 1973-74. Tutorials on papers P3 and P6. Past Chairman of Institute Trade Mark Committee, still serving as CNIPA representative to OHIM Trademark Working Group. Past Examiner Paper P6. Past Chairman of Joint Examination Board. 

Services to the profession outside the Institute: Past Chair Publications Board INTA (International Trademark Association); Co-editor/co-author of 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions INTA publication Country Guides. Associate Professor Brunel Law School.

Other, irrelevant, information: 26 years service as Scout Leader/Group Scout Leader 1st Eastcote Scout Group, Proud Grandfather.