Room at the top: Sir Henry Reader Lack, the first Comptroller-General

Room at the top: Sir Henry Reader Lack, the first Comptroller-General

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Sir Henry Reader Lack (1832–1908) was the third and last Clerk to the Commissioners of Patents (1876–83), the first Registrar of Trade Marks (from 1876), and the first Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (1884–97), a title which seems to have been invented for him, and perhaps at his instigation. His period in office was marred by a reputation for poor internal management and staff morale, and disastrous public relations. On one account he presided over "the darkest period in Patent Office history as gauged by public respect". He remains the longest-serving head of the UK Patent Office to date, though, as well as the first under the title of Comptroller, and many of his procedural innovations endure to this day. He is also known to history as the employer of the poet A.E. Housman, author of A Shropshire Lad, who may once have been his private secretary.

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Intellectual Property Quarterly ; I.P.Q. 2023, 4, 194-251

[New York, NY] : Thomson Reuters, 2023.

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