Leon Allen

Leon was appointed as a Non-Executive Director on 1 July 2020, having acted as the Company’s inaugural Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director from May 2016 to January 2020. Prior to this, Leon was the Managing Partner of Davies Collison Cave and Chairman of the firm’s management board from 2011 to 2016. Leon joined DCC in 1995 and has worked as a patent attorney since 1981. Leon is a past president of The Institute of Patent and Trade Marks Attorneys of Australia having served on its Council from 1992 to 2013. Leon has served two terms on the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property to the Federal Government, the second as Chair.

Leon is a Fellow of the International Federation of Patent Attorneys Academy of Education, teaching patent drafting in Europe and a Senior Fellow of the University of Melbourne.