Mediator, EUIPO BoA, ES

Gordon Humphreys is currently Chairperson of the First Board and of the Third Board of Appeal at EUIPO, from 2014 to 2019 he had been Chairperson of the Fifth Board of Appeal, having joined the Boards as a Member in 2005. He was Head of the Register Service from 2002-2005 and joined EUIPO’s Legal Department in 1997. He is also an accredited mediator with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is a member of the EUIPO Boards of Appeal Mediation Service since 2011.

Prior to working at EUIPO, Gordon was in private practice in Luxembourg and Brussels and qualified both as a barrister (England and Wales) and avocat (Brussels bar). He was also a member of the CIArb Sub-Committee on Revision of Mediation Rules between 2016 and 2018. Gordon was educated at the universities of Buckingham (LL.B), Cardiff (LL.M), Liège (masters in economic law) and Alicante (specialist en derecho de la Unión Europea).

Gordon speaks and writes regularly on ADR, trade mark and design matters, and has coedited Mediation: Creating Value in International Intellectual Property Disputes, Wolters Kluwer (2018) and was a contributing author in Hasselblatt, Community Design Regulation: Article-byArticle Commentary, Second Edition (2018), Beck.