Ruth Collins

Patent- und Markenverwaltung

Head of Formalities

Location
Bristol (UK)

About Ruth

Ruth is the Head of Formalities and has overall responsibility for overseeing the aims and direction of the formalities support teams across the firm.

Ruth is an experienced patent administrator having joined HLK as a Trainee Patent Administrator in 2011 and achieving the CIPA Certificate in Patent Administration in 2013. She was made a Senior Patent Administrator in 2016 and became the Patent Administration Manager for the Engineering team in 2022, with overall responsibility for the department across our Bristol and London offices. She takes a detailed and proactive approach in helping support clients to manage their IP portfolio with Haseltine Lake Kempner and is committed to providing an excellent client experience. In 2025, Ruth was promoted to Head of Formalities.

During her time at HLK, Ruth has worked with a wide range of UK and overseas clients and manages a caseload of UK, European and International patents and patent applications.

HLK recognises the key role that IP Administrators play, alongside our attorneys, in helping maintain strong client relationships that last and Ruth finds this part of the role particularly rewarding.

Ruth is always keen to find ways to increase efficiency whilst not allowing HLK’s high standards to drop, whether that be by changes in our use of IT or to our procedures and policies. This involves considering and developing HLK’s reporting procedures, so they can work seamlessly with many of our client’s in house teams and portals.

Ruth particularly enjoys training and mentoring trainee patent administrators, helping them to obtain their CIPA IPAC qualification and providing support as they continue to gain experience after they have qualified. She is also involved with the HLK Academy, informing the trainee attorneys about the role of the Patent Administrators in providing an excellent service to our clients.

Ruth is also a member of the CIPA IP Paralegals Committee.

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Qualifications

BA English Literature and History (University of the West of England)
CIPA IP Paralegal