Melanie Harvey

Melanie is a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney and joined Birketts in June 2020.

She is a Legal Director in our intellectual property team and trade marks and branding team with over twenty five years’ experience operating in the intellectual property field. Melanie specialises in trade mark and design protection and enforcement, as well as dispute resolution, brand registration, IP strategy and IP litigation.

Melanie has a great deal of experience in both contentious and non-contentious matters and advises a wide range of clients, both in the UK and internationally, including start-ups, small businesses and international corporations. It is not unusual for Melanie to be supporting the perceived underdog when it comes to establishing and defending an earlier rights position be that at the UKIPO or before the UK’s dedicated IP court, the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC), and its predecessor, The Patent County Court.

Melanie is on INTA’s International Amicus Committee (2^nd two-year term) with a focus on European cases, providing recommendations to the Executive Committee where INTA may wish to via an amicus curia (“friend of the courts”) briefs or similar filings covering Trade mark, unfair competition and IP-related Laws. Committee work includes evaluating request to file, monitoring leading cases, and drafting submissions where no conflict arises. As of 2026, Melanie is also on the related Committee for MARQUES.

Melanie is also an editor and author for Sweet & Maxwell CITMA & CIPA Trade Mark Handbook, the definitive guide for all things UK trade mark law and practice related, plus relevant aspects of European and International law as appropriate.