Careers at Keltie

Diverse People, Innovative Careers

Our founder, David Keltie, taught us that our people make a difference. Our success is built on a simple realisation: Clients are best served by talented people who love what they do. And that’s where you come in.

When you join Keltie, you are at the heart of the firm. We invest in you as a person and as a professional. Our team of patent, trade mark, and design attorneys is skilled, experienced, and, above all, are great people to work with. We offer our people rewarding and stimulating careers.

Core Values and Guiding Principles

At Keltie, we stand united in embracing our core values. It is our reputation that attracts clients from all over the world. Fairness, trust, and excellence in all we do define who we are. You’ll be part of a fair and transparent environment, one where you can build trust with your colleagues and clients and deliver excellence. A commitment to quality runs through our veins, and it is in everything we do. We commit to investing in you from the start to build the best foundation for your future.

Driving Diversity: Our D&I Journey

Join us in creating a better future of work that’s inclusive. At Keltie, opportunities are for all, not a select few. Since Keltie was founded, the firm has moved away from traditional ways of working in law that had many prejudices associated with it. Today, our teams reflect the diversity of our world.

Our commitment extends beyond words—we support inclusivity through our DICE
(Diversity, Inclusion, Charity, and Environment) committee. This team’s mission is to ensure we see change in diversity, inclusion, and sustainability at Keltie and within the industry.

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Patent Attorneys

Decades of experience as attorneys, engineers and scientists in industry and research underpin the approach of our patent team. We are resolutely commercial and take time to understand your technology and your business.

Trade Mark Lawyers

The attorneys in our Trade Mark Group are among the leading brand protection experts in the UK and Europe. Through our associate network, we coordinate brand protection all over the world. The Group comprises multi-lingual European and UK trade mark attorneys with backgrounds in law, engineering and business. Their expertise extends through the full lifecycle, from searching and filing through to opposition and litigation, including enforcement and appeal. The Group also has vast experience in online enforcement.

Design Protection

Keltie's attorneys have an unusual wealth of expertise and experience in design rights. We help clients protect their designs, exploit their rights and mitigate risks.

Online Brand Protection

What is online brand protection? Protecting the value of your brand online is a lot to do with reputation management. In the age of the internet and social media, brands are global, accessible and more easy to engage with than ever before. Online brand protection services from Keltie seek to protect the credibility and equity you have built within your business and include our enforcement, monitoring and detection capabilities.

Customs Protection and Enforcement

The attorneys at Keltie join forces with Customs Authorities, Border Forces and Online Enforcement Agencies to tackle infringement and counterfeiting head-on. Counterfeit goods pose a significant threat to the reputation of brands and unsuspecting consumers through a wide range of sectors.

35 years of Keltie

In 2023, Keltie turned 35. From the early foundations of setting up a trade mark law firm to the COVID-19 pandemic and becoming the successful IP firm it is today, Keltie has seen a lot of changes.

"I want to create something amazing," were the words of David Keltie when he started the firm in 1988. David was tired of the values of some of the traditional patent and trade mark firms, which were old-fashioned and hierarchical. David’s dream was to create a firm where every person was equal. One where there was no ‘them and us’ attitude or perception.

At Keltie, David brought together like-minded people who loved their jobs and wanted to be a part of his dream. He brought all the good things he had learned from working in his previous firms but left all the ‘bad’ things behind.

The reputation that Keltie has built for over thirty years as a personal, forward-thinking, and principled firm speaks for itself. As David said, “Our people make the difference."

Discover a firm where people come first. Keltie’s Rosemary Cardas takes us on a journey of innovation and excellence, and Sean Cummings looks back at the story so far.

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Patent Administrator

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CIPA Qualified Patent Administrator

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Careers at Keltie

Diverse People, Innovative Careers

Core Values and Guiding Principles

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Driving Diversity: Our D&I Journey

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35 years of Keltie

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