Alison Brimelow
Alison Jane BrimelowCBE(born 1949[1]) is a British civil servant and former chief executive andComptroller Generalof the UK Patent Office, now known as theIntellectual Property Office.She was the fifth President of theEuropean Patent Office,a position she held from 1 July 2007[2]to 30 June 2010.
Early life and education
[edit]Born inHavana,Cuba,she is one of the two daughters ofSir Thomas Brimelow,a British diplomat, who wasPermanent Under-Secretaryin theBritish Foreign Officein 1973–75 andMember of the European Parliamentin 1977–78, and Jean Cull.[2][3][4]She holds a degree from theUniversity of East Anglia.[1]
Career
[edit]She joined theBritish Diplomatic Servicein 1973.[1]In 1976, she joined theDepartment of Trade and Industry(DTI). She worked in a variety of Headquarters policy jobs, including private office. She joined the Patent Office in 1991, where she became Head of the Trade Marks Registry.[1]
In 1997 she returned to DTI Headquarters to work on European and International Competition Policy.[1]She was appointed chief executive and Comptroller General of the Patent Office in March 1999.[1]She held the post of chief executive and Comptroller General of the Patent Office from March 1999 to end of December 2003.[1]
In 2003 she was elected President of the European Patent Office jointly with ProfessorAlain Pompidouof France. She resigned from the UK Civil Service on 31 December 2003.[1]From 2003 to 2006, she was Deputy Chairman of the Administrative Council of theEuropean Patent Organisation.[1]
From November 2004 to December 2006, she was Chair of the Steering Board of theNational Weights and Measures Laboratory,aUK Governmentorganisation.[1]In February 2005 she was elected Associate Fellow of Templeton College,Saïd Business School,Oxford.[1]
Her term of office as president of the European Patent Office (EPO) began on 1 July 2007.[5]In May 2009, she informed the EPO staff that she would not seek an extension of her contract which ended on 30 June 2010.[6]There were initially four candidates to succeed her,Susanne Ås Sivborg,Benoît Battistelli,Roland Grossenbacher,andJesper Kongstad.[7]In March 2010, it was then made known that she would be succeeded by Benoît Battistelli on 1 July 2010.[8]
In September 2010, Alison Brimelow took on the role of chairman of the Board of Trustees ofHartlebury CastlePreservation Trust.[9][10]In June 2011 she became Chairman of theIntellectual Property Institute.
Honours
[edit]She was appointedCommander of the Order of the British Empirein 2005, "for services toIntellectual Property Law."[11]In 2011, she was awarded the Commander's Cross of theOrder of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany(German:Grosses Bundesverdienstkreuz).[12][13]
She is a member of theAthenaeum Club.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^abcdefghijkEuropean Patent Office web site,Alison Brimelow's CV.Consulted on 2 July 2007.Archived26 September 2007 at theWayback Machine
- ^ab"Alison Brimelow to be President of the European Patent Office".United Kingdom Patent Office.30 October 2003. Archived fromthe originalon 5 December 2003.Retrieved5 August2006.(archived on archive.org)
- ^Thomson Gale,The Blue Book: Leaders of the English-speaking World,1976, St. James Press, St. Martins Press, p. 93.
- ^Tam Dalyell,Obituary: Lord Brimelow,The Independent,4 August 1995.
- ^European Patent Office web site,Alison Brimelow takes over as EPO PresidentArchived26 September 2007 at theWayback Machine.Consulted on 2 July 2007.
- ^Emma Barraclough (11 May 2009)."EPO begins search for new president".
Alison Brimelow, president of the EPO, will not stand for a second term after her three-year contract expires at the end of June 2010. A spokesman for the EPO said that she had emailed her decision not to seek a renewal of her contract to the staff at the IP office.
- ^EPO web site,Applications received for the post of EPO PresidentArchived22 September 2009 at theWayback Machine,17 September 2009. Consulted on 18 September 2009.
- ^EPO web site,Benoît Battistelli elected EPO PresidentArchived6 March 2010 at theWayback Machine,News, 1 March 2010. Consulted on 2 March 2010.
- ^Charlie Crabtree,"New chairman for revamped Hartlebury Castle trust",Kidderminster Shuttle, 3 September 2010. Consulted on 17 September 2010.
- ^"Trust Moves Up A Gear"Archived17 October 2010 at theWayback Machine,The Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust, Latest News, 09/08/10. Consulted on 17 September 2010.
- ^Government News Network,Prime Minister's Office (National), Queens Birthday Honours – Order of the British Empire, Civil Order of the British EmpireArchived27 September 2007 at theWayback Machine,11 June 2005
- ^German Order of Merit award for former EPO President Alison Brimelow,EPO web site, 14 September 2011. Consulted on 23 September 2011.
- ^Award for Chair of Intellectual Property InstituteArchived24 November 2011 at theWayback Machine,News Distribution Service (NDS), UK government'sCentral Office of Information(COI), 14 September 2011. Consulted on 23 September 2011.
Further reading
[edit]- Anjana Ahuja,An obstacle to the patently obvious[dead link],The Times, 27 October 2003.
External links
[edit]- Alison Brimelow's CVat the European Patent Office, as archived in June 2009 by theInternet Archive
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