Deputy Head
Director IP Wales® - Winner of the Judges Special Prize, WORLDLeaders European IP Awards (2004)

National Awards

Recipient under the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2009 of an O.B.E. for, ‘services to intellectual property and business in Wales’.

Recent Publications

Reports

Report Prepared for the Welsh Assembly Government on IP Crime & E Crime , (2009)

Study of Intellectual Property in UK HEIs with emphasis on Wales , (2005), ISBN 0-9544739-6-5

Making A Difference To The Welsh Economy: IP Wales® Phase One Report , (2004), ISBN 0-9544739-3-0

Our First Year of Achievement: IP Wales® Annual Report 2002 – 2003 , (2003), ISBN 0-9544739-1-4

Preliminary Report: Intellectual Property & Legal Expense Insurance , (2003)

Papers   

A. Beale, “Intellectual Property is a tool for Economic Development in Wales”  WIPO – WTO Colloquium, papers 2010

A. Beale and D.Blackaby and L.Mainwaring, “University Patenting in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland: a Comparative Analysis”, (2008), Volume 62 Higher Education Quarterly

J. Allan and A. Beale, "Patent & Trade Mark Statistics for Wales", (2005), Issue 1 Wales Journal of Law and Policy

A. Beale and A. George, "IP Wales: A Web Based Project", (2001), Issue 1 Wales Journal of Law and Policy

A. Beale, M. Clement, I. Davies, "Intellectual Property Activity in Wales: A Report on the Support for Innovative SMEs Project", (2001), Issue 1 Wales Journal of Law and Policy

International Speaking Engagements

World Trade Organization:

'WTO/WIPO Colloquium for teachers of IP', Geneva, 2010

World Intellectual Property Organization:

'WIPO Forum on Intellectual Property & SMEs for IP Offices of OECD & EU Enlargement Countries' Geneva, 2009
‘WIPO – League of Arab States Regional Training Program on Intellectual Property and Management of Innovation by Micro, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises’ Cairo, 2009
Co-organized the 'WIPO Forum on Intellectual Property & SMEs for IP Offices of OECD & EU Enlargement Countries' Cardiff, 2008
'WIPO Forum on Intellectual Property & SMEs for IP Offices of OECD & EU Enlargement Countries' Geneva, 2007

'WIPO Forum on Intellectual Property & SMEs for IP Offices of OECD & EU Enlargement Countries' The Hague, 2006

'WIPO – WASME Forum on Practical IP Issues for SME Support and Financial Institutions, including Technology/Business Incubators' Geneva, 2005

'WIPO Forum on Intellectual Property & SMEs for IP Offices of OECD & EU Enlargement Countries' Alicante, 2004

European Patent Office:
PATLIB: 'Investing in the Future' Liege, 2003

European Commission

‘Sub-Regional Conference on Intellectual Property and the Competitiveness of Small and Medium – sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the Agro-Foods Sector in Latin America’ Guadalajara & Veracruz, 2009

'Innovating through EU Regional Policy' Brussels, 2006
'PATINNOVA: Sixth European Congress on Patents – Patents in the digital era & Patents serving entrepreneurship' Cardiff, 2001

Other International Invitations

IP Australia (2005)

Ministry of Economic Development, New Zealand (2005)

Enterprise Ireland (2004)

Membership of Relevant Academic & Professional Bodies

The Chartered Institute of Patent Agents (elected Associate Member, 2005)

The Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (elected Associate Member, 2005)

The Law Society

The Institute of Legal Executives

Licensing Executives Society (2003-2006)