IP and Other Things - A Collection of Essays and Speeches

The Rt Hon Professor Sir Robin Jacob has been variously a leading member of the Intellectual Property Bar, a High Court judge and, as Lord Justice Jacob, a judge in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. His primary area of expertise is intellectual property (IP) rights. He chose to leave the Court of Appeal in March 2011 to take up his current position as the Sir Hugh Laddie Chair in intellectual property at University College London. Besides teaching and writing he still sits occasionally in the Court of Appeal, sits as an arbitrator, provides expert evidence, chairs the Advisory Committee on the Appointment and Training of the Judges of the Unified Patent Court and often advises the UK Government and EU Commission on IP matters. These essays and speeches, selected from his published and unpublished writings and lectures, illustrate the breadth of his learning in IP and other matters. They are written in typically straightforward and entertaining style and, in the case of the older essays, include a commentary of what has happened since they were first published. They will be of interest to any lawyer, law student or scholar interested in the development of IP law in the past quarter century or so.>

List of contents

Part I: Introduction
1. Addresses of Welcome for Mr Justice Jacob: In the High Court of Justice-Chancery Division
Part II: General Non-IP
2. Pieces for My Almae Matres: Trinity College and LSE
3. Knowledge of the World and the Act of Judging
4. My Dad and Gray's Inn
5. 'Be Ye Ever so High, the Law is above You' : What that means in Practice
6. Court-Appointed Experts v Party Experts: Which is Better?
Part III: General IP
7. Intellectual Property in the House of Lords
8. Intellectual Property and Competition Law: Can Economists Help?
9. Woolly Lines in Intellectual Property Law
10. IP Law: Keep Calm and Carry On?
11. Is Intellectual Property the Grit in the Wheels of Industry?
12. Towards a European Civil Procedural Code
13. International Intellectual Property Litigation in the Next Millennium
14. The Convergence of European Intellectual Property Law?
15. Community Intellectual Property Law in English Courts
16. The Relationship Between European and National Courts in Intellectual Property Law
17. Article for The House
18. Industrial Property - Industry's Enemy?
Part IV: Patents
19. Competition Authorities Support Grasshoppers: Competition Law as a Threat to Innovation
20. Patents and Pharmaceuticals - A Paper given on 29 November 2008 at the Presentation of the
Directorate-General of Competition's Preliminary Report of the Pharma-sector Inquiry
21. FRAND: A Legal Analysis
22. Patent Trolls in Europe - Does Patent Law Require New Barriers?
23. Patent Thickets: A Paper for the European Patent Office Economic and Scientific Advisory Board (ESAB) Meeting at the University of Leuven (26 September 2012)
24. Don't Attack Patent Law but Improve it
25. The Perfect Patent Court
26. To Bifurcate or Not to Bifurcate: That is the Question
27. Raising the Bar: A Mistaken Chimera?
28. Law and the Human Genome Project
29. In Honour of Rüdiger Rogge
30. Abolish Patents?
31. Patent Litigation: Why Everyone Gets it Wrong and What Should We do?
32. The Community Patent or a European Patent Court? Is it Time to Choose?
33. The Harmonisation of Patent Litigation
34. Paper for the Ninth (Madrid) Symposium of the European Patent Judges 1998
35. Objectionable Narrowness of Claim, a 'Side Bar'
Part V: Trade Marks
36. Trade Marks: Reality or Illusion?
37. Trade Marks and the Olympic Games Throughout the Years
38. Product Shape and Trade Dress: A Critical Analysis
Part VI: Copyright
39. Parody and IP Claims: A Defence? - A Right to Parody?
40. The Globalisation of Copyright
Part VII: Forewords and Prefaces
41. Foreword to the CIPA Guide to the Patents Act
42. Foreword to Bullen & Leake & Jacob's Precedents of Pleadings Hong Kong
43. Foreword to Software Patents Worldwide
44. Preface to Intellectual Property Rights and the EC Competition Rules
45. Foreword to Decisions of the UK Performing Rights Tribunal and Copyright Tribunal 1957 - 1996
46. Foreword to Trade Mark Law: A Practical Anatomy
Part VIII: Personal
47. To Dieter Stauder: For his Festschrift
48. Speech at the CIPA President's Dinner on HMS Belfast , 3 June 2009
49. Mr Justice Jacob Interview for Managing Intellectual Property
50. Interrogatories Answered by the Treasurer
51. Three Little Ships (Treasurers ' Trip to New World, Jamestown)
52. On Going to the Bar
53. Thomas Blanco White KC 1915 - 2006: A Personal Reminiscence by Robin Jacob
54. Hugh Laddie Memorial
55. Sir Hugh Laddie Obituary
56. In Memoriam: Nicholas Pumfrey
57. Sir Nicholas Pumfrey
58. My Friend Cyril
Part IX: Conclusion
59. Valedictory Remarks on the Retirement of the Rt Hon Lord Justice Jacob

About the author

The Rt Hon Professor Sir Robin Jacob is the Sir Hugh Laddie Professor of Intellectual Property Law at University College London.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Jacob, Robin (University College London Jacob, Robin (University College London) Jacob, Sir Robin (University College London Jacob
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.09.2015
• EAN: 9781849465953
• ISBN: 978-1-84946-595-3
• No. of pages: 536
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 15 mm
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law