Name Frederick Mostert | Role Author | |
Books From Edison to IPod: Protect Your Ideas and Make Money | ||
Frederick Mostert is Past President of the International Trademark Association and an internationally recognized authority on intellectual property issues. Mostert served as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel and Chief Legal Counsel of luxury group Richemont, which includes Cartier, Van Cleef and Arpels, and Alfred Dunhill.
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He is currently a Research Fellow at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, University of Oxford, a Visiting Professor of King’s College, London, and a Research Fellow at Peking University.
Mostert has served on Compagnie Financiere Richemont SA’s Board, as well as the boards of Net-a-Porter, The International Trademark Association and others. He is currently an Advisor on Corporate Culture to the President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
At present he serves on the Board of The Walpole Group, the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts, the Adopt a School Trust, the Steering Committee of the Lawyers Group at Classics for All and is a member of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
Writing
Mostert is principal author and editor of Famous and Well-known Marks – An International Analysis which has been cited by US Federal Courts, the High Courts in the UK, the Supreme Court in Canada, the Constitutional Court in South Africa and in various other jurisdictions, as well as by other scholarly publications. He has also authored From Edison to iPod – Protect Your Ideas and Profit and International Trademark Treaties and Agreements. Mostert's op-eds have been featured in the Financial Times and the South China Morning Post. International news organizations call upon Mostert for expert commentary on intellectual property matters.
Education and career
Mostert was educated at Columbia University School of Law in New York City and the University of Johannesburg. He is a member of the New York Bar and a solicitor of England and Wales. He has practised corporate law at Shearman and Sterling and international intellectual property law at Fross, Zelnick, Lehrman & Zissu in New York.
Pro bono
Some of Mostert's most notable pro bono legal assistance has been provided to President Nelson Mandela (South Africa), the Shaolin Monks (China) and the Confucius Foundation – a children's charity (Hong Kong).
Awards
Mostert was inducted into the Intellectual Property Hall of Fame in 2015, which honours those who have helped to establish intellectual property as one of the key business assets of the 21st century.
He was awarded a Life Achievement Award by the Global Legal Post, a Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Trademark Review, the Paul A. Welter Award for Excellence in Trademarks and the World Leaders IP Award for the Best IP Achievement undertaken on a Pro-Bono Basis and Best Achievement in IP Management.
Board service
Mostert has served on Compagnie Financiere Richemont SA’s Board, as well as the boards of Net-a-Porter, The International Trademark Association and others. At present he serves on the Board of The Walpole Group, the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts, the Adopt a School Trust, the Steering Committee of the Lawyers Group at Classics for All and is a member of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
In addition, he has served on advisory boards including the Art and Science Foundation (New York), the Industry Advisory Commission of the World Intellectual Property Organization (UN Agency, Geneva), the Advisory Board of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (Brussels) and Freedom under Law.
He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the McCarthy Institute for Intellectual Property (San Francisco) and the Advisory Council of Anti Copying in Design (London).
At present he also serves on the Advisory Panel of the Intellectual Property Magazine and has served on the editorial board of The Trademark Reporter and the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, published by Oxford University Press.
Personal
Mostert lives in London and is married to the novelist, Natasha Mostert.