As the world continues to grow at an alarming rate, the importance of Intellectual Property (IP) continues to rise as well. David Llewelyn represents clients in all aspects of IP protection and exploitation, as well as the resolution of disputes concerning intellectual property by negotiation, mediation, litigation and arbitration.
After a period as a NATO Fellow in 1979, he spent nearly two years as a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich. In July 1994 David founded Llewelyn Zietman, which grew to a 25-lawyer firm before he left in September 1999 to join White & Case.
Llewelyn has published and lectured extensively: he is Professor of Intellectual Property Law at King's College London and External Director of the IP Academy, Singapore. He is co-author of Kerly's Law of Trade Marks and Trade Names (14th edition, 2005), the leading practitioners' textbook on the subject in the UK and EU, co-author of Cornish, Llewelyn & Aplin on Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights (7th edition, 2010) and the author of Invisible Gold in Asia – Creating Wealth through Intellectual Property (2010).
Well besides he is one of the "Leading Individuals" in intellectual property named by Chambers' Guide to the Legal Profession and is one of the top 50 trademark lawyers in the world chosen by Euromoney's Managing Intellectual Property.
