CIPA Annual Report 2014-15 (print final)

The 133rd Annual Reportof the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys

2014-15

I was proud to be elected as President and to have Andrea Brewster as my Vice President. This is the first time in CIPA’s long and distinguished history that these two roles have been held by women; I hope that in the near future it will be completely unremarkable.

The last annual report covered the 2013 calendar year. This report covers 2014 and up to the end of the Presidential year in May 2015. Future reports will be aligned with the Presidential year.

My predecessor, Roger Burt, and Lee Davies did a tremendous amount of work in setting up the Internal Governance Committee. We have benefited from the work of that

Committee, under Bobby Mukherjee’s leadership, throughout this reporting period. We clarified the financial position of the Institute by making IPReg truly independent and by paying off the pension deficit. This enabled us to be confident in taking decisions to invest some of our reserves, for example in developing and obtaining accreditation for our Litigation Skills Course.

Lee and his team have really transformed our Institute into a membership organisation. We held a productive and enjoyable “Not a Council Meeting” to identify the most important services that we should offer to members. The output from that meeting enabled us to define and launch SILC (Status, Influence, Learning and Community) to

President’s Report

Catriona Hammer

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summarise our offering to members in a memorable form. It also helped Lee to produce and publish our first Strategic Plan.

I believe that we have greatly improved our communications over this reporting period. Neil Lampert has brought professional expertise and a creative approach to developing and sharing content. Importantly, we surveyed our members and have used the feedback from that survey to enhance our communications. The monthly newsletter is popular and we are increasing our presence on Twitter. The Journal continues to be valuable to members and we are improving its appearance while maintaining the content.

Our enhanced communications capability has also helped us to build on our relationships with external stakeholders such as the IP Minister, Baroness Neville-Rolfe, the UKIPO and the EU Commission. CIPA is consulted formally and informally on important IP issues. We have been very active on the UPC, with Vicki Salmon and Chris Mercer representing us at the Trier hearing on the draft Rules of Procedure. We are now focusing on fees and representation rights. We are also deeply involved in discussions on harmonisation and on the proposed

Trade Secrets directive. CIPA and other organizations lobbied

intensively to ensure proper scoping of the

availability of criminal sanctions for design infringement. On the trade mark side, our re-invigorated committee has commented on OHIM fees and is reviewing referrals to the CJEU.

Georgina Sear has made a huge impact on our educational capabilities. Our newly accredited Litigation Skills course is a terrific achievement and we look forward to receiving feedback from the first participants. We have increased our support to students and to administrators and established a new Education and Professional Standards Committee.Andrea has taken the lead in establishing a Diversity Forum for the IP professions and I look forward to seeing more progress in this important area in the coming year.

Finally, everyone will be aware that we had a general election recently. We produced our first ever manifesto for all political parties and will now be urging the government to implement our recommendations.

I am proud of what we have achieved and confident that we have the right team in place to go further and faster next year.

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My work as Vice-President centred around CIPA’s relationships with its members. The four SILC headings (Status, Influence, Learning, Community) provided an excellent starting point, allowing us to align and prioritise our activities with a clear focus on what the Institute should be doing for the people it represents.

There have been highlights.

The Informals felt isolated and unsupported. We have brought them closer: now a formal CIPA committee, they have access to all the Institute’s support mechanisms, but they also retain independence to decide their own programmes and set their own budget. It seems right to me that CIPA should provide a proper home for its trainee

attorneys, and who better to look after it than the Informals?

IP administrators, so vital to our work, also sat on the fringes of the Institute, either as associates with few clear membership benefits, or not joining at all. We have set up a new committee to look after their interests, its aims being to provide them with a voice at CIPA, professional recognition and influence, and a clearer career development pathway. A review and update of the existing – widely respected – patent administrators’ course, and the introduction of advanced training modules, is being overseen by the new committee. The Trade Marks Committee was also unsure of its remit. Together, we have redefined its role, and through

Vice-President’s Report

Andrea Brewster


a membership survey it has established its purpose not only in supporting dual-qualified members but also in keeping all patent attorneys up to date with basic trade mark knowledge, and in ensuring that CIPA remains an influential and knowledgeable force across the IP landscape.

The best aspect by far of my Vice-Presidential work has been the “Meet-the-Members” campaign. This began in autumn 2014 as a “simple” plan to visit CIPA members in their own offices around the UK, to find out what they wanted from their Institute. It turned out to be a much bigger project and is still ongoing. Everyone has been welcoming (especially on the biscuit front!), and it’s been great to meet patent attorneys in such a diverse range of organisations: their feedback will help Council to represent them in a more informed manner.

Again, SILC has provided a framework for these discussions, a story to tell about the meaning of CIPA membership. Attorneys recognise in it the things they value about their Institute, in particular the voice of influence it represents; the importance of maintaining and promoting the CIPA “brand”; and the benefits of bespoke and

cost-effective training. I feel privileged to have been able to meet so many of you; it has filled me with enthusiasm for my role and I’ve valued your candour. Thank you to everyone involved.

There will be plenty going on in 2015. A pan-professional task force is working to improve diversity in the IP professions and make them a more welcoming place for everyone, regardless of background. There will be more Meet-the-Members visits. We’re establishing a network of regional representatives to make it easier for members outside London to engage with, and benefit from, CIPA membership.

I look forward to an exciting year as President.

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The year as Immediate Past President started with the clear realisation that CIPA’s Bye-laws were unfit for purpose and needed substantial updating. The task is well under way but has proven to be rather more difficult then we envisaged. It is clear that the objects in CIPA’s Charter are fairly onerous in that they require the Institute to, not only, act as a professional and representative body for Intellectual Property Practitioners in patents, designs, trade marks and other forms of intellectual property, but also to promote the education, standing, training and continuing professional expertise of Intellectual Property Practitioners and to establish, maintain and enforce high standards of professional

conduct and compliance with the law. The bye-laws have to be written to fully reflect the objects and that is not an easy task.

The Intellectual Property Office’s (IPO) Economics, Research and Evidence (ERE) team made a number of enhancements to its Expert Advisory Groups including replacing the previous four groups by an Unregistered Rights Expert Advisory Group (Copyright / Designs) and a Registered Rights Expert Advisory Group (Patents / Trade Marks / Brands / Registered Designs). I will chair the Registered Rights Expert Advisory Group for a two year period and, in order to ensure consistency between the two groups, I am a member of the

Immediate Past President’s Report

Roger Burt


Unregistered Rights Expert Advisory Group. The aim of the groups is to provide independent peer review and commentary on research specifications, methodologies, and research at both interim and pre-publication. The members also have the opportunity to propose areas for new research.

A conversation with an old family friend led to an invitation to join the team helping with The Design Council’s SPARK programme. The SPARK programme is a Product Innovation Fund and accelerator to support physical product ventures in the UK. The Fund will support 10 individuals or teams to take ideas to market through a 20 week accelerator programme. They will receive support, including mentoring, access to manufacturing facilities, and networking, and an initial £15,000 investment. The teams will the pitch for follow on investment of up to £50,000 from the Fund and access to finance from

other investors at the end of the 20 weeks at a launch event. I participate on behalf of CIPA as a member of the investment panel responsible for selecting the ventures that will participate in the Fund and receive seed investment. I have also given education and advice along the lines of the CIPA clinics for those individuals or teams that do not already have their own patent attorney.


This year we are reporting on a slightly extended period, the Annual Report covering the period from 1 January 2014 through to the date of the Annual General Meeting on 18 May 2015. We have three different years at CIPA. The membership year runs from 1 January through to 31 December. The Financial year runs from 1 October through to 30 September. The ‘governance’ year follows the term of the Presidency, which is between the dates of Annual General Meetings. This would have made sense at some point, I am sure.

At the Annual General Meeting we report on the previous financial year, meaning the accounts are approximately seven months past the year end. This is reasonably normal give or take a month or so as accountants and auditors do like to chew over the year end and it is important that we provide

you with an accurate representation of the Institute’s financial health. Traditionally we have reported on the previous membership year, meaning the Annual Report would cover a period through to approximately five months before the Annual General Meeting. I happen to believe that a membership body should be reporting back to members in something closer to real time, so I am delighted that Council has decided to move the reporting period to mirror the Presidential year.

I am now in my fourth year at CIPA and during 2014 – 15 I think I was finally able to throw off the ‘new boy’ tag. This is a complex profession with many different dimensions but at long last I can explain what it is that patent attorneys do with some confidence. I even went as far as drafting a make believe patent claim

Chief Executive’s Report

Lee Davies


under close supervision but I am sure I have only lightly scratched the surface of the incredibly challenging work that you do. My job, however, is not to try and become a patent attorney, it is to build on the excellent foundations we have at CIPA to make your professional body one you can be truly proud of.

For me, CIPA had to change. This meant placing membership at the centre of everything we do as a professional body and developing a team at CIPA that strives to provide the very best for our members. We are not perfect but we have come a long way in the last eighteen months and it really feels like we have a cohesive team working in the best interests of our members. Change on this scale would not have been possible without the support of the Officers and Council. SILC is a great example of this.

I have long held the belief that the true benefits of any membership organisation are the unique features of belonging to a strong professional community and do not include discounts at clothes stores or cheaper car insurance. I set the officers a challenge: describe the unique benefits of being a member of CIPA in three to five words. When dealing with patent attorneys, three to five words can only translate into four words – Status, Influence, Learning and Community. It may seem a small achievement, but I am immensely proud that we have been able to craft a strategic

plan around four words that should be at the heart of every professional body’s membership offer.

Five months in, it is far too early to measure the success of the strategic plan and I have always been honest with my Officers, Council and every member I get the opportunity to meet. The strategic plan is a best guess. It is our first stab at taking the concepts of Status, Influence, Learning and Community and turning these into something more tangible. We will get some of it right, we will get some of it wrong but I passionately believe that we have set the right course for the Institute and that CIPA will go from strength to strength.

An Annual Report should be about highlights and these are some of mine:

z Establishing the Patent Examination Board as a truly independent examining body with robust governance arrangements and a mission to professionalise the patent attorney examination system.

z Recruiting highly skilled staff with expertise in education, membership, media and public relations and setting out a challenging agenda to transform CIPA as a professional membership body.

z Introducing live web broadcasts from


the CIPA Hall and venues around the country to bring high quality debate and information to a wider audience of our members and the outside world.

z With several other leading professional bodies, co-founding Professions Week and the Access to the Professions movement to help young people get the very best careers information, advice and guidance.

z Consulting widely with members and our key partners to ensure that our response to IPReg’s proposals to reform the patent attorney examination system was a constructive critique, highlighting the pitfalls of that initiative.

z Lobbying at home and abroad on critical issues such as the drafting and implementation of the IP Bill, the Unitary Patent and the UPC and the consequences for UK PLC of a patent litigation system that was potentially injurious to the UK profession and the UK’s business interests.

z Migrating CIPA’s IT infrastructure off-site into a hosted environment, improving the Institute’s resilience and business continuity and going out to tender for a new membership database and website content management system to provide better online services for members.

z Being invited to talk about CIPA’s evolution as a professional body at national and international membership conferences, placing this Institute centre stage.

One of the areas where CIPA leads the way is membership engagement through its committee structure. I have lost count of the number of times fellow Chief Executives have told me what they would give to import our level of voluntarism into their organisations. The work of the Institute’s committees is regularly reported in our highly respected Journal, but allow me to reflect on a number of examples.

There is no harder working committee than the Patents Committee, which works tirelessly on behalf of members at home and abroad. This was also the year the Committee burst into the 21st Century with the launch of the @TheCIPAPatCom Twitter account. I was much taken by Jim Boff’s observation that the cap of 140 characters somewhat limits the amount of debate possible through social media, but twenty-six or so characters in Council can debate intensively.

The additional exposure we are getting from Twitter together with more active reporting via the CIPA Journal means that the profile of the committee and CIPA is being raised. The Committee has continued its strong liaison with the UK IPO and the EPO, together with the various other


representative groups in IP to position CIPA as one of the most authoritative and impartial observers in IP/patent matters. In the early part of 2015 matters got exciting, with the issue of independence of the Boards of Appeal leading CIPA to make a proposal for rule changes that would as an interim measure provide some reassurance of independence. This letter was favourably commented on.

In 2014, in addition to the normal and continuing work of considering and commenting on legislation and practice, and participating in consultation with the IPO, the Patents Committee had one big item to consider – the Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court. Here there is great crossover with one of CIPA’s busiest committees, the Litigation Committee. When the IPO issued a Technical Review and called for evidence concerning secondary legislation to implement the UP Regulation and UPC Agreement a joint working group of the two committees prepared CIPA’s response. The fact that we now have a Litigation Skills Course accredited by IPReg is a testament to the hard work that the Committee has put in over recent months, together with Georgina Sear and her team and colleagues in the Patent Examination

Board.

The Designs & Copyright Committee led

the Institute’s work on

examining the consequences of criminal sanctions for designs infringement appearing in the IP Bill. The Committee was central in determining CIPA’s lobbying position as we met with Lord Younger, Lord Clement-Jones and Lord Stevenson to set out our concerns. I think it is fair to say that the ramifications would have been greater but for the intervention made by CIPA. The Committee reviewed and commented on the implementation of the repeal of Section 52 CDPA, the Designs Opinion Service and the Appointed Person appeal route.

Turning to the international perspective, the International Liaison Committee had another busy eighteen months. The Committee met regularly to organise joint meetings and seminars with intellectual property organisations and government bodies from various countries. A delegation of members of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) was welcomed in March 2014. After a dinner at the Goring Hotel hosted by CIPA and ITMA the evening before, a discussion meeting between AIPLA, CIPA and ITMA took place in Gray’s Inn on the morning of 10 March and was followed in the afternoon by a CPD seminar covering patent and trade mark topics given by members of the AIPLA delegation.

In May, Committee members attended as special guests a reception hosted by ITMA at the British Consulate-General in Hong Kong during INTA, to which members of the All-China Patent Agents’ Association were also invited. I was fortunate to be part of a delegation to Montreal in June 2014


at the invitation of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, IPIC, to take part in discussions with IPIC Council and to give a CPD seminar to IPIC members.

In September 2014, a delegation from the All-China Patent Attorneys Association led by Mr Perry Yang was welcomed to events organised by CIPA in Oxford, these including a welcome dinner at the Malmaison Hotel (formerly a prison!), followed the next day by a meeting with Committee members and a CPD seminar, both held in beautiful autumnal surroundings at Worcester College.

During 2014, members of the Committee welcomed to London several different groups from China, including: a group of judges from Yunnan Province in February (jointly with ITMA), a group from Anhui Provincial IP Office in July, representatives of the Work Safety Department of the China National Space Administration in September, representatives of the China IP Society in October, and in November a group from the Department of Science and Technology and other technology-based institutions in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Members of the Committee met members of the Japan Patent Attorneys Association during the APAA Congress in Toronto in September 2014. In October, CIPA members attending the Asian Patent Attorneys Association’s meeting hosted a reception in Penang, Malaysia for members of the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys (IPTA) of Australia and were invited to a lunch with members of the Taiwan Patent

Attorneys Association (TWPAA).

The Life Sciences Committee turned its attention to the European Regulation to enforce the Nagoya Protocol, providing a consultation response which was well received by the Department of Food and Rural Affairs. The Institute sought to be as constructive as possible, however, the Committee fears that the Nagoya Protocol has the capacity to cause severe difficulties for both academic and industrial researchers. The Committee argued that, in fulfilling its obligations under EU law, the UK government should make every effort to minimise the potential difficulties that will arise from implementing the Nagoya Protocol. The Committee, once again, organised a highly successful Life Sciences Conference.

A resurgent Trade Marks Committee roared into life under the leadership of a new Chair, Keith Howick. The Committee provided detailed comments to OHIM with respect to its consultation on its strategic plan. The Committee conducted a survey of the CIPA membership to gain a better understanding of what support members who work in the trade mark environment want from the Institute. 457 members responded to the survey, a 20% response rate. The Committee discussed the results and was encouraged that support from CIPA on trade mark issues is still wanted by the membership.

The Business Practice Committee, a joint committee with ITMA, whilst


generally updating its briefing notes, spent much of the time focussed on the impact of IPReg’s new client account requirements on patent and trade mark firms and lobbying against the determination made by IPReg that the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 apply to patent attorneys. On both counts the lobbying work continues, but some progress has been made with CIPA arguing strongly that the application of the Money Laundering Regulations to patent and trade mark attorneys would place both professions in a position of weakened competitiveness in Europe and further afield, where competitors are not subject to this increased and unnecessary burden of regulation.

Members of the Media and PR Committee worked with our new Head of Media and Public Affairs, Neil Lampert, to generate trade media coverage on a number of important issues and to develop our own animated video which manages to raise awareness of IP, encourage businesses to protect their innovations and give a message to the new Government about the Unitary Patent Court - all in less then three minutes. Neil has also been leading work to develop a new CIPA website and has been working with various committees to increase our influence with the Government and other important stakeholders at home and abroad. We recruited a Policy Officer, Rebecca Gulbul, to further bolster this important, proactive policy work.

October 2014 saw another great CIPA

Congress delivered by the Congress Steering Committee. Bringing together delegates from industry and private practice and with a theme of the intellectual property system from the cradle to the grave, we had a sharp focus on the commercial application of IP provided by a high profile gathering of speakers. An innovation this year was the introduction of a professional compere to control the proceedings. This brought a fresh feel to the day and also lifted a great weight from the shoulders of the President and Vice-President who were free to network with delegates rather than worry about the next session on the programme.

Two new committees came into being during the last year. The Internal Governance Committee has been established to ensure that the Institute has in place robust governance procedures and leads on all finance, employment and general legal matters. The new Education & Professional Standards Committee will provide a new focus on educational matters and will be tasked with developing a long overdue set of professional standards detailing the skills and knowledge required for a 21st Century patent attorney, out of which CIPA will build a vibrant education programme.


Committees

Laws Committees

Computer Technology CommitteeChair: Simon Davies, D. Young & Co. LLP

Designs & Copyright CommitteeChair: David Musker, Jenkins

European Patent Liaison Committee (reports through the Patents Committee)Chair: Gwilym Roberts, Kilburn & Strode LLP

Life Sciences CommitteeChair: Simon Wright, J A Kemp

Patents CommitteeChair: Jim Boff, Phillips & Leigh

Trade Marks CommitteeChair: Keith Howick, Carpmaels & Ransford

Internal Committees

Business Practice Committee (joint with ITMA)Chair: Maggie Ramage, Alexander Ramage Associates (ITMA)Vice-Chair: Matt Dixon, Harrison Goddard Foote (CIPA)

Congress Steering CommitteeChair: John Brown

Constitutional CommitteeChair: Jim Boff, Phillips & Leigh Succeeded by Alasdair Poore, Mills & Reeve

Education & Professional Standards CommitteeChair: Simone Ferrara, Vodafone

Informals CommitteeHonorary Secretary: Parminder Lally, Marks & Clerk LLP

Internal Governance Committee Chair: Bobby Mukherjee, BAE Systems

Patent Administrators’ CommitteeChair: Andrea Brewster, Greaves Brewster LLP

Patent Examination BoardChair: Rob Taylor (Lay Member)

Textbooks & PublicationsChair: Bill Jones, ip21 Ltd.

Outside Interest Committees

Academic Liaison CommitteeChair: Paul DenerleySucceeded by Tony Rollins

International Liaison CommitteeChair: Robert Ackroyd, W P Thompson & Co

Litigation CommitteeChair: Vicki Salmon, IP Asset LLP

Media & Public Relations CommitteeChair: Robert Jackson, Dehns

Protected Titles CommitteeChair: Lee Davies, CIPA


CouncilThe members of Council during 2014-15 were as follows:

President: R J Burt (until 21 May 2014)C M Hammer (from 21 May 2014)

Vice-President: C M Hammer (until 21 May 2014)A R Brewster (from 21 May 2014)

Ordinary Members of Council (1 January 2014 – 18 May 2015):

R Ackroyd, J C Boff, A R Brewster (served as Vice-President from 21 May 2014), J D Brown (until 21 May 2014), R J Burt (served as Immediate Past President from 21 May 2014), P L Cole (from 21 May 2014), S R Davies, R J H Davis, P M Denerley, P M Dixon, S Ferrara (from 21 May 2014), J V Gowshall (until 21 May 2014), S Harte (from 21 May 2014), A M Hector, K L Hodkinson, J T Jackson, R P Jackson, S F Jones (until 21 May 2014), C P Mercer (served as Immediate Past President until 21 May 2014), A Mukherjee, B N C Ouzman, A D Poore, G V Roberts, T W Roberts, A J Rollins, V B Salmon, J M Vleck, S M Wright

General Meetings of the Institute

The One Hundred and Thirty-Second Annual General Meeting was held on 21 May 2014.

The 805th Ordinary General Meeting was held at Downing College, Cambridge, on Friday 17 January 2014.

The 806th Ordinary General Meeting was held at the Mercure Brigstow Hotel, Bristol, on Friday 7 February 2014.

The 807th Ordinary General Meeting was held at the Double Tree by Hilton, Granary Wharf, Leeds, on Friday 14 March 2014.

The 808th Ordinary General Meeting was held at the Caledonian Hotel, Princess Street, Edinburgh, on Friday 25 April 2014.

The 809th Ordinary General Meeting was held at the Institute’s Hall, Chancery Lane, London, on Wednesday 9 July 2014.

The 810th Ordinary General Meeting was held at the Institute’s Hall, Chancery Lane, London, on Wednesday 5 November 2014.

The 811th Ordinary General Meeting was held at the Double Tree by Hilton, Granary Wharf, Leeds, on Thursday 19 March 2015.

The 812th Ordinary General Meeting was held at the Mercure Bristol Brigstow Hotel, Bristol, on Thursday 16 April 2015.


PresidentsJohn Henry Johnson (1882-1884)John Imray (1884-1886)William Carpmael (1886-1888)John Clayton Mewburn (1888-1890)Sir William Lloyd Wise (1890-1897)Charles Denton Abel (1897-1899)Edward Carpmael (1899-1901)Philip Middleton Justice (1901-1903)George Gatton Melhuish Hardingham (1903-1905)John Corry Fell (1905-1907)William Clark (1907-1909)Oliver Imray (1909-1911)Thomas Alfred Hearson (1911-1913)George Barker (1913-1915)John Ebenezer Bousfield (1915-1917)William John Tennant (1917-1919)Robert Bolton Ransford (1919-1923)Bertram Edward Dunbar Kilburn (1921-1923)Harold Wade (1923-1924)Reginald Haddan (1924-1925)Hubert Alexander Gill (1925-1926)(1939-1940)Arthur George Bloxam (1926-1927)John Edward Lloyd Barnes (1927-1928)Reginald William James (1928-1929)Arthur Woosnam (1929-1930)Griffith Brewer (1930-1931)Arthur Stuart Cachemaille (1931-1932)Frederick Gilbert Brettell (1932-1933)Gordon Melville Clark (1933-1934)Alfred Augustus Thornton (1934-1935)George Edward Folkes (1935-1936)Richard John Tugwood (1936-1937)Arthur Carpmael (1937-1938)William Henry Ballantyne (1938-1939)Henry Withers Kickweed Jennings (1940-1942)Walter Philip Williams (1942-1943)Ernest William Moss (1943-1944)William Warren Triggs (1944-1945) (1949-1950)Evan Lovell Widdrington Byrne (1945-1946)

Arthur Abbey (1946-1947)Harold Joseph Charles Forrester (1947-1948)Cecil Edward Every (1948-1949)John Oswald Farrer (1950-1951)Frederick Walter Rudolph Leistikow (1951-1952)Edward Buckmaster Robinson (1952-1953)William Ogilvy Duncan (1953-1954)Edward Williamson (1954-1955)Thomas Ballantyne Clerk (1955-1956)Eric Walter Eustace Micklethwait (1956-1957)James George Fife (1957-1958)Henri Georges Bouly (1958-1959)Harry Morgan Yeatman (1959-1960)John Richard Tugwood (1960-1961)Michael Hesketh-Prichard (1961-1963)John Clifford Holgate Ellis (1963-1964)Maurice Herbert Carpmael (1964-1965)Alan Wilmot Beeston (1965-1966)Charles William Morle (1966-1967)Walter John Charles Chapple (1967-1968)Cyril George Wickham (1968-1969)Peter Lloyd Bowtell (1969-1970)Owen Wynn Jaques (1970-1971)John Stephen Bushell (1971-1972)Walter Weston (1972-1973)Francis William Berthold Kittel (1973-1974)George Arthur Bloxam (1974-1975)Nicholas James Flower (1975-1976)John Melbourn Aubrey (1976-1977)Arthur Terence Ranson (1977-1978)Gordon Hawksley Edmunds (1978-1979)Richard Courtenay Petersen (1979-1980)Norman Waddleton (1980-1981)John Ulysses Neukom (1981-1982)John Henderson Dunlop (1982-1983)Bernard Fisher (1983-1984)Angus Henry Duncan (1984-1985)Peter Robin Broughton Lawrence (1985-1986)Keith Baynes Weatherald (1986-1987)Sidney David Votier (1987-1988)


Richard John Gallafent (1988-1989)Philip Antony Smith (1989-1990)William Egerton Caro (1990-1991)Clifford Lees (1991-1992)William Robert Farwell (1992-1993)John Mackay Reid (1993-1994)John Douglas McCall (1994-1995)Richard Fennelly Fawcett (1995-1996)Andrew Charles Serjeant (1996-1997)Robert William Beckham (1997-1998)Tibor Zoltán Gold (1998-1999)Peter Geoffrey Mole (1999-2000)Edward Willoughby Brooke Lyndon-Stanford (2000-2001)Timothy Wace Roberts (2001-2002)John David Brown (2002-2003)Anna Marie Denholm (2003-2004)Thomas Bruce Alexander (2004-2005)Michael Robert Harrison (2005-2006)Barry William Treves (2006-2007)Robert Dale Weston (2007-2008)Dave William Bradley (2008-2009)John David Brown (2009-2010)Alasdair David Poore (2010-2011)Timothy Wace Roberts (2011-12)Christopher Paul Mercer (2012-13)Roger James Burt (2013-14)Catriona Macleod Hammer (2014-15)

MembershipDuring the period 1 January to 31 December 2014, the following were elected to membership: 75 Fellows 28 Associates 155 Students

258 members elected

The Council records with regret the deaths of:

10 Fellows

The Council received and accepted the resignations of:

39 Fellows16 Associates5 Foreign18 Students

78 Resignations

The following were excluded from membership for non-payment of their annual subscriptions:

19 Fellows18 Associates2 Foreign31 Students

70 members excluded

Total membership summary as at 31 December 2014:

Fellows 2233Associates 526Students 717British Oversea Members 25Foreign Members 81Honorary Members 10

Total 3592


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Documents

CIPA Annual Report 2014-15 (print final)