Our People
Rico Calleja
Rico Calleja is a legal know-how and marketing consultant to a number of City and West End firms and provides legal training to law firms including Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP, Speechly Bircham LLP and Michael Simkins LLP. Rico also provides know-how and training services to a number of in-house legal departments, including Amazon, talkbackTHAMES and BSkyB. He specialises in IP, IT, media and communications.
He is a qualified solicitor (1987) and an experienced legal editor. He is the editor of Entertainment Law Review and is on the editorial board of the IT journal Computer & Telecommunications Law Review. He is also a correspondent on a number of IP journals. Rico writes and edits his own current awareness publication, The Reporter, which has been described as “best of breed” in the industry.
Kathy Harris
Kathleen Harris has over 20 years experience practising in the law and was a partner for many years in the City working across all areas of intellectual property. Kathleen is, unusually, also a qualified patent and trade mark attorney as well as a solicitor and US lawyer (New York). She has acted for many household name brands over the years, including Formula One, American Express, Bloomsbury Publishing ("Harry Potter") and Amoco Oil (now BP).
In the patent field, as Kathleen has advanced degrees in genetics and microbiology, she has also been involved in some very interesting cases, including drafting the patents for "Dolly the Sheep", various patents related to the Human Genome and drafting patents leading to ground-breaking vaccines related to malaria and AIDS. Kathleen is a on numerous committees related to IP, including CIPA, ITMA and the BioIndustry Association and writes articles for many journals including the EIPR and Patent World.
Gemma Cullis
Gemma Cullis is a senior solicitor whose expertise spans intellectual property, data protection and competition law. She has a particular interest in trade marks and registered designs and acted for the defendant in Oakley v Animal, the first UK registered design case under the Registered Design Regulations 2001.
Gemma has a long-standing interest in legal writing and prior to joining Calleja Consulting, wrote for the Independent and the Guardian on trade marks and ambush marketing.