Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys


The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys is the British professional body of patent attorneys.

History

The Institute was founded in 1882 as the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents and incorporated by Royal Charter in 1891. The Institute changed its name in June 2006.

Objectives and function

Its objective is to promote awareness of, and well-founded confidence in, the UK Intellectual Property profession and to represent the interests of its approximately 4000 members, over 2000 of whom are Registered Patent Attorneys, qualified by professional examination.
Another of CIPA's long-established objectives is regulation of the profession. In 2010, CIPA and the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys set up the Intellectual Property Regulation Board to undertake jointly the regulation of the Patent Attorney and Trade Mark Attorney professions.
CIPA maintains the statutory Register of Patent Attorneys on behalf of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, reporting to the Comptroller-General of Patents, Trade Marks and Designs at the UK Intellectual Property Office.

Presidents

This is a list of past presidents of the CIPA.
  1. John Henry Johnson
  2. John Imray
  3. William Carpmael
  4. John Clayton Mewburn
  5. Sir William Lloyd Wise
  6. Charles Denton Abel
  7. Edward Carpmael
  8. Philip Middleton Justice
  9. George Gatton Melhuish Hardingham
  10. John Corry Fell
  11. William Clark
  12. Oliver Imray
  13. Thomas Alfred Hearson
  14. George Barker
  15. John Ebenezer Bousfield
  16. William John Tennant
  17. Robert Bolton Ransford
  18. Bertram Edward Dunbar Kilburn
  19. Harold Wade
  20. Reginald Haddan
  21. Hubert Alexander Gill
  22. Arthur George Bloxam
  23. John Edward Lloyd Barnes
  24. Reginald William James
  25. Arthur Woosnam
  26. Griffith Brewer
  27. Alfred Stuart Cachemaille
  28. Frederick Gilbert Brettell
  29. Gordon Melville Clark
  30. Alfred Augustus Thornton
  31. George Edward Folkes
  32. Richard John Tugwood
  33. Arthur Carpmael
  34. William Henry Ballantyne
  35. Henry Withers Kickweed Jennings
  36. Walter Philip Williams
  37. Ernest William Moss
  38. William Warren Triggs
  39. Evan Lovell Widdrington Byrne
  40. Arthur Abbey
  41. Harold Joseph Charles Forrester
  42. Cecil Edward Every
  43. John Oswald Farrer
  44. Frederick Walter Rudolph Leistikow
  45. Edward Buckmaster Robinson
  46. William Ogilvy Duncan
  47. Edward Williamson
  48. Thomas Ballantyne Clerk
  49. Eric Walter Eustace Micklethwait
  50. James George Fife
  51. Henri Georges Bouly
  52. Harry Morgan Yeatman
  53. John Richard Tugwood
  54. Michael Hesketh-Prichard
  55. John Clifford Holgate Ellis
  56. Maurice Herbert Carpmael
  57. Alan Wilmot Beeston
  58. Charles William Morle
  59. Walter John Charles Chapple
  60. Cyril George Wickham
  61. Peter Lloyd Bowtell
  62. Owen Wynn Jaques
  63. John Stephen Bushell
  64. Walter Weston
  65. Francis William Berthold Kittel
  66. George Arthur Bloxam
  67. Nicholas James Flower
  68. John Melbourn Aubrey
  69. Arthur Terence Ranson
  70. Gordon Hawksley Edmunds
  71. Richard Courtenay Petersen
  72. Norman Waddleton
  73. John Ulysses Neukom
  74. John Henderson Dunlop
  75. Bernard Fisher
  76. Angus Henry Duncan
  77. Peter Robin Broughton Lawrence
  78. Keith Baynes Weatherald
  79. Sidney David Votier
  80. Richard John Gallafent
  81. Philip Antony Smith
  82. William Egerton Caro
  83. Clifford Lees
  84. William Robert Farwell
  85. John Mackay Reid
  86. John Douglas McCall
  87. Richard Fennelly Fawcett
  88. Andrew Charles Serjeant
  89. Robert William Beckham
  90. Tibor Zoltán Gold MBE
  91. Peter Geoffrey Mole
  92. Edward Willoughby Brooke Lyndon-Stanford
  93. Timothy Wace Roberts
  94. John David Brown
  95. Anna Marie Denholm
  96. Thomas Bruce Alexander
  97. Michael Robert Harrison
  98. Barry William Treves
  99. Robert Dale Weston
  100. Dave William Bradley
  101. John David Brown
  102. Alasdair David Poore
  103. Timothy Wace Roberts
  104. Christopher Paul Mercer
  105. Roger James Burt
  106. Catriona Macleod Hammer
  107. Andrea Ruth Brewster OBE
  108. Anthony John Rollins
  109. Stephen Jones
  110. Julia Florence
  111. Richard Mair

    Notable members