KEITH HAVELOCK (Consultant, Trade Mark Attorney)

Keith is a Fellow of the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, and also of the Chartered Management Institute and of the Royal Society of Arts. He is on the UK register of Trade Mark Attorneys, and is a European Trade Mark Attorney. Keith joined the trade mark profession in 1959, and qualified in 1961. He has been a member of the Council of the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys since 1972, and was its President from 1979 to 1981. He was the Institute’s permanent representative on the UK Government’s Standing Advisory Committee on Industrial Property between 1992 and 2001, and served two terms as Chairman of the Institute’s Laws and Practice Committee. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Institute in 2001.

Keith was a founder member of the European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA) and a member of its Council since 1980, serving as Chairman of the Membership Committee, and of the Professional Affairs Committee. He was its Secretary General from 2001 until 2011. He was co-author of “Concise Trade Mark Law and Practice”, (Gower Press 1985) and a contributor from 1991 until 2001 to the “UK Trade Mark Handbook”, (Sweet and Maxwell 1991) and to the “Community Trade Mark Handbook” between 2002 and 2007. Keith was a lecturer on the Certificate in Intellectual Property Law course, Queen Mary College, University of London between 1986 and 1996

Keith is a long term supporter of Charlton Athletic, and is also a member of Middlesex County Cricket Club and of the MCC.  His varied interests include New Orleans jazz, and jazz drumming, and he is Patron of Claygate Choral Society and a member of Kingston Grammar School Choral Society.