Faculty Profile

• LL.B. (Hons), Southampton University 1977
• B.C.L. (Oxon), Worcester College, Oxford, 1979
• Solicitor, England & Wales, 1985

Academic Position Held

Current Appointment:

• Professor of Law (Practice), School of Law, Singapore Management University, Jul 2011-present
• Professor of Intellectual Property Law, King's College London, 2006-date
• Honorary Professor, Hong Kong University, 2009-date
• Professorial Fellow, IP Academy Singapore, Oct 2014-date

Previous Appointments:

• Deputy Dean, School of Law, Singapore Management University, Jul 2012-Dec 2019
• Visiting Professor, School of Law, Singapore Management University, Aug 2010-Jun 2011
• Visiting Professor, King's College London, 2004-2006
• Visiting Professorial Fellow, Queen Mary College, London University 1992-2004
• Senior Visiting Fellow, Queen Mary College, London University, 1984-1992
• Visiting Lecturer, London School of Economics, 1983-1985
• Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property Law, Munich, 1980-1981
• Lecturer in Law, Reading University, 1977-1978

Other Positions

• Deputy Chairman & External Director, IP Academy Singapore, 2007-June 2012
• Of Counsel, White & Case LLP, Singapore, April 2010-March 2012
• Partner and Head of Intellectual Property, White & Case, London, 1999-2010
• Director, IP Academy Singapore, 2004-2007
• Founding Partner, Llewelyn Zietman Solicitors, 1994-1999
• Partner, McKenna & Co Solicitors, 1987-1994
• Articled clerk and then Solicitor, Linklaters & Paines, 1982-1987

Course Taught in SMU

• Intellectual Property Law
• International Commercialisation of Intellectual Property

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

• Commercialisation of IP
• Comparative Trade Mark Law
• Intellectual Property Law

Selected Publications

Books:

• James Mellor, David Llewelyn et al, Kerly’s Law of Trade Marks and Trade Names (Sweet & Maxwell, 16^th ed. Supplement, 2020)
• David Llewelyn & Tanya Aplin, Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks & Allied Rights (Sweet & Maxwell, 9^th ed, 2019)
• David Llewelyn, Ng Hui Ming, Nicole Oh Xuan Yuan, Cases, Materials and Commentary on Singapore Intellectual Property Law (Academy Publishing, 2018)
• James Mellor, David Llewelyn et al, Kerly’s Law of Trade Marks and Trade Names (Sweet & Maxwell, 16^th ed., 2018)
• David Llewelyn, Invisible Gold in Asia (Marshall Cavendish, 2010)

Journal Articles:

• David Llewelyn and Prashant Reddy T, “Metatags using third party trade marks on the internet” in Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Digital Technologies, (Tanya Aplin ed.) (Edward Elgar, 2020) pp 411-425
• David Llewelyn, “Comparative Advertising: Does Trade Mark Law Over- or Under-Protect the Average Consumer? A Couple of Recent Examples of Asian Jurisdictions Going their Own Way” in Transition and Coherence in Intellectual Property Law: Essays in honour of Annette Kur (Bruun, Dinwoodie and Levin eds) (Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp 478-485
• David Llewelyn, “Language and Law: The Role of the Intellectual Property Treatise” in Across Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Sam Ricketson (edited by Austin et al) (Cambridge University Press, 2020) pp 280-291.