Vicki Salmon Council Member

Chairman of the Congress Steering Committee, Social & Programme Committee and Litigation Committee, and member of the Biotechnology Committee, Patents Committee, Membership Promotion Committee and Patents Court and County Court Users Committees.

Eversheds LLP, Senator House, 85 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4JL.

MA (Cantab.) Certificate in Intellectual Property, Queen Mary & Westfield College, CPA, EPA, Solicitor. Registered 1989.

Professional career: Mewburn Ellis 1985-1990. Stephenson Harwood 1990-1998. Eversheds 1998 to date, associate.

Services to Institute: Hon Treasurer Informals 1987-1989; UK Tutorial Organiser for Informals 1989-1992; Examiner of the JEB Law Paper 1995-1999; Former member of the Education Committee; former alternate delegate to ITMA Education Committee; Former member of the ad-hoc CPD Committee (1999/2000); Former member of the General Laws Committee; Former Chairman of the congress Steering Committee (2001-2005).

Services to the profession outside the Institute: Member of ITMA, Member of AIPPI, Hon-lecturer at Manchester University Faculty of Law 1999.

Other relevant information: CIPA clinician (since 1990), preparation of CIPA’s submissions to the Law Society on multi-disciplinary practices, preparation of paper for AIPPI on UK views as to whether or not the draft Hague Convention on recognition and enforcement of judgments should cover intellectual property rights, preparation of CIPA's submissions to DCA on consultation process regarding appeals from Tribunals to the Courts, contributor to CIPA submission relating to the process leading to the Patents Act 2004, contributor to CIPA's response to the EU consultation process on IP (2006), contributor to the Modern Law of Patents.