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Keith Leonard HodkinsonCouncil Member |
Marks & Clerk LLP, 13 South Parade Leeds LS1 5QS.
MA (Law) (Cantab); BA (Science); CPA; EPA; MITMA; Certified Trade Marks and Designs Litigator; Accredited Civil Litigation Mediator with ADR Chambers. Registered 7 October 1991.
Professional Career: Lecturer at the University of Manchester 1980-1986; joined Marks & Clerk as a trainee 1986; partner of Marks & Clerk from 1993; Chairman of Board of Management from 2008 to date
Papers or Articles: None
Services to the Institute: Member of CIPA/ITMA Joint Business Practice Committee since 2010; Working Party on ABS; one time contributor to CIPA Guide to Patents Act 1977; one time contributor to the CIPA/ITMA Handbook on Community Designs Law; various tutorials for examinations and patent/trade mark administrator courses; judge at various IP moots.
Meetings attended:
2009-10: OGMs 0 of 9; Committees 0 of 0; Council 0 of 0
2010-11: OGMs 1 of 8; Committees 4 of 4; Council 0 of 0
Services to the profession outside the Institute: I have been a lecturer and examiner on copyright and design law for Manchester University IP courses leading to exemption from JEB examinations 1998-2008; visiting lecturer in IP Law at Universidad de Alicante 1995-2005; member of the Designs Committee of ECTA from around 2003; member of the OHIM Link Committee of ECTA from around 2005; director of Pamia Limited since 2011; delivering sundry lectures, training sessions and papers for organisations such as FICPI, LES, WIPO; various academic papers and books relating to Intellectual Property; I attended hearings of the French Institute of Counseils en Propriete Industrielle to give evidence at their request on training and examination systems in the UK profession
Other relevant information: My main interests in Council’s activities lie in (a) preserving the patent (and trade mark) professions as strong, independent and well regulated professions which are internationally competitive, and able to work alongside - but not being subsumed into – complementary professions; (b) promoting a strong, accessible, UK education and professional development regime and equipping the IP professions now to adjust to the future changes to the regimes we operate under; (c) Maintaining a level playing field within the Institute between private practice and in-house service and between the larger and smaller firms, particularly in regulatory matters.
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