Harris Tweed the trade mark should have been granted exclusively to Harris, the Orb Trade Mark was granted. The Harris Tweed Association, a voluntary body, was formed to protect both the use of the Orb Trade Mark and to protect the use of the name ‘Harris Tweed’ from imitations. The original definition attached to the Orb Trade Mark stated that: Harris Tweed means a tweed, hand-spun, hand-woven and dyed by the crofters and cottars in the Outer Hebrides. In 1993, a new statutory body to guard the Orb Trade Mark, the Harris Tweed Authority, replaced the original Harris Tweed Association. Also in
Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys Chartered Trade Mark Attorneys, its membership also includes those training to be trade mark attorneys, overseas trade mark attorneys and other professionals in other related areas of the law, e.g. barristers who have a Trade Mark/Design interest. The President of the Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys is Tania Clark of Withers & Rogers. She was elected to the position in April 2018. The First Vice-President is Richard Goddard of BP; the Second Vice-President and the Treasurer is Rachel Wilkinson-Duffy of Baker McKenzie. Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys The Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (CITMA) was founded in