Network Members
Find out more about our members and their interest in Intellectual Property on this page.
We welcome any young brain interested in Intellectual Property issues and we aim to gather around the same table lawyers and non-lawyers at the start of their careers. The network hopes to be composed of (but not limited to), research students, early carreer reasearchers, newly qualified lawyers and trainees, members of the creative industries (artists, producers etc.) and of the scientific community.
If you are interested in joining the network, do not hesitate to contact us via this website or by emailing us at: newiplawyers@gmail.com.
Evgenia (Jenny) Kanellopoulou is a PhD candidate (University of Edinburgh) as well as a lecturer in Law (University of Salford). She describes her relationship with IP from the day they met in practice to her current academic bond with the discipline.
I first met IP in 2005, when I started working for a concert promoter in Athens, Greece. During my years there, and also during my placement at Sony / Bmg, Intellectual Property was something like a excel sheet with numerical figures that justified our existence. I was being told to calculate some things called “mechanicals” or to include the C and P symbols in a CD’s artwork because of some complicated calculations.
As a DJ, I recall the middle aged brief carrying collecting society representative, asking us to fill out forms with all the songs we had played that night. Naturally, the form was filled out with the names of friends’ struggling bands rather than Metallica’s (please Lars do not sue).
For the past five years I have been studying intellectual property and the music industries, aiming to bridge the gap between law and practice. My goal is for the academic world to see that “Rock ’n ’Roll ain’t noise pollution”.[1] Additionally, I agree with Donal Passman describing copyrights “are squiggly little critters that, every time you think you have a handle on them, take an unexpected turn and nip you in the **tt”. [2] In my research, I endeavour to disentangle law and business so that everybody can enjoy the tunes and “let the music play”, as per Barry White.
[1] AC/DC, 1980.
[2] D Passman, All you need to know about the Music Business, 2011.
Joshua Wabwire is a lawyer from Kenya and a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. Joshua’s research interests in intellectual property law include international intellectual property dispute resolution, intellectual property laws and policies in the context of regional integration, and protection versus access issues vis-à-vis access to essential medicines in the South. In 2012, he presented a paper on the harmonisation of intellectual property laws in the East African Community (EAC) member states at the Moi University Annual International Conference. A strong advocate for strong intellectual property protection to enable countries in the South address the public health needs of their populations, Joshua has authored a cum laude research paper on the EAC Regional Intellectual Property Policy on the Utilisation of Public Health-Related WTO-TRIPS Flexibilities and the Approximation of National Intellectual Property Legislation, at the International Development Law Unit of the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Law.
Hasan Kadir Yilmaztekin is a PhD candidate and a scholar of the School of Law at the University of Exeter. Hasan’s research interests include international intellectual property law, human rights law and particularly the interfaces between these two fields of law. A strong proponent for “a fair culture” ideal in intellectual property law, Hasan, in his research project, focuses on the after-TRIPs era, its new IP architecture and its impacts on the human rights obligations of the states from human development perspective. He earned his LLB from the University of Ankara and his LLM in International Business Law with distinction from the University of Exeter. In June 2014, Hasan was awarded the Golding Essay Prize for his essay titled “Lucasfilm and Solvay: Does being admitted to a court suffice to attain access to justice for foreign intellectual property rights?”by the Competition Law Association. He was also selected as one of the first scholars of the International Law Association’s Regional Conference held in Lisbon in September 2014.
Mathilde Pavis is an AHRC-funded PhD researcher based at the School of Law of the University of Exeter. She teaches in a variety of module including Intellectual Property Law, French of Contract and French Administrative Law. She is currently a member of the intersdiciplinary InVisible Difference Project and works as a research assistant for Pr. Waelde Charlotte in collaboration with Hasan. In March 2014 she received the first prize of the Interleges Essay Competition for her article titled: 'True-shareholderism is stakeholderist.'
Mathilde's research interest in Intellectual Property Laws focuses mainly on Copyright and Performers' Rights in their interaction with contemporary forms of art including performing practices. For the purpose of her thesis, she analyses the legal understanding of creativity in various jurisdictions as reflected in caselaw and statutory provisions. She argues in favour of reforming performers' rights to better the legal protection of this class of artists. Her research adopts a comparative approach and relies on performing arts studies and creativity reseach.
Hatice ZÜMBÜL is a patent and trademark attorney in Turkey and is currently studying IT/IP Law at Leibniz University of Hannover/Germany (LLM program).
She graduated from Istanbul University, Law faculty, with distinction in 2010. In the same year, she started a LL.M. Program at Private Law Department of Istanbul University. Since passing the bar in Turkey, Hatice has been working in the field of Intellectual Property.
Shane Patrick McNamee, LLB (TCD), LLM (Edinburgh), is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Consumer Law and Chair for German and European Consumer Law, Private Law and Comparative Law at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. His specialisations are consumer protection in the digital world and comparative analysis of consumer protection in Germany and the Common Law world. His work includes general administrative duties; organisation of, preparation for and attendance of conferences and meetings on a variety of consumer-relevant subjects; working with relevant public and private bodies in the area of Consumer Law; writing reports, commentaries or articles in both German and English.
He is also responsible for the coordination of the working groups on The Digital World, Informational Duties and Energy Law, liaising with other PhD candidates and academics in these fields. Prior to this, he completed his LLM in Innovation, Technology and the Law at the University of Edinburgh, focusing on IT, IP and Medical Law. His work covered aspects of IT Law such as digital downloading, licensing and ownership, as well as Medical Jurisprudence and Biotechnology Law, specifically controversial ethical issues like assisted dying, stem cell research, the creation of animal-human hybrid embryos. His dissertation, entitled "The Regulatory and Liability Implications of Nano-scale Drug Delivery in The Human Body", was later published by the journal Nanotechnology Law & Business in 2014. His undergraduate studies were completed in Trinity College Dublin, where he undertook the LLB in Law and German, including one year studying Law abroad at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany. He has also previously worked in the video game industry and is currently undertaking a PhD on the theme of consumer protection in that industry. IP Law has been an important part of his work, especially in the areas of biotechnological patenting, software patenting, and in particular the clashes between protection of digital intellectual property and the protection of consumer interests. In his spare time he runs the website www.TheUndisciplined.com , where he writes on these subjects, amongst others.
Jesus Manuel Niebla Zatarain - Doctoral researcher in IP and IT Law (University of Edinburgh)
Jesus commented: "I am interested, my main field of research is Information Technology Law, Implementation of Technology to the Law, Artificial Intelligence and Law and IP Law. I have a Bachelors Degree in Law and another Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, both from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa in Mexico, I have an MBA from Centro de Estudios de Los Cabos, where I got an Certificate of Academic Excellence for having the highest academic notes of my class. I have undertaken research courses at UNAM's Legal Research Institute in Mexico and I have taken part in course related to the implementation of computer law and the way they can be use as an effective tools to improve law enforcement on the Internet. Currently I am a PhD fellow at the University of Edinburgh, in the area of Artificial Intelligence and Law, my supervisor is Professor Burkhard Schafer, and the provisional title of my thesis is Intelligent Agents to Enforce Copyright Law on the Internet."
Jennifer Heaven Mike is a doctoral student of University of Exeter. Her PhD thesis is titled ‘RE-IMAGINING WOMEN’S RIGHT TO HEALTH IN THE TRIPS AGREEMENT, THROUGH A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA’ Jennifer has attended several conferences and given paper presentations on pharmaceutical patents, access to medicines and women’s right to health. Currently a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant taking the Criminal law module, she has also published blog entry on the topic ‘Embodied Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Health and Their Bodies’ on the Science, Culture and the Law at Exeter (SCULE) blog.
Jiahong Chen is a PhD student at the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include IT/IP law, with particular focus on data protection law at the European Union level. His PhD thesis is intended to address data protection risks that the increasingly widespread application of big data might cause, and the legal efforts in response within the EU. He is currently also a social media editor for SCRIPT (@SCRIPTCentre), a research centre for IP and IT law based in the University of Edinburgh, and an editor for SCRIPTed, an online journal covering IT, IP and medical law.
Maria Gimena Rabinad is currently undertaking her LLM in Intellectual Property and Information Law at King's College London. She has completed her former education back in Argentina, where she graduated suma cum laude from Law School at the University of Buenos Aires and got her Master's degree in Corporate Law at the University of San Andres. Gimena has been lecturer on Alternative Dispute Resolutions since 2009 and has played an active role in the development of mooting in Latin America, as participant, coach and arbitrator, and as part of the Organizing Committee of the LatinAmerican Moot on Commercial Arbitration. However, it was not until 2012 when she bumped into IP and Technology Law when joining the Buenos Aires' office of one of the major worldwide companies in the provision of IT and Consulting services. Last September Gimena was transferred to London to keep on fostering her career at the company, but from the UK headquarters.
Sabine Jacques is a Belgian researcher achieving a PhD in law at the University of Nottingham where she is studying "The right to parody: a comparative analysis" under the supervision of Professors Estelle Derclaye and Paul Torremans. In this research, she has a specific focus on the music industry as she is partially funded by MPA (the Music Publishers Association), BASCA (the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors) and PRS for Music (Performing Right Society). Additionally, Sabine is currently an intellectual property and industrial property tutor at the University of Nottingham. Finally, she is a blog contributor for the EU Law Analysis Blog.
Before coming to the United Kingdom, Sabine obtained her bachelor and master degrees in law at the University of Liège, Belgium where she focused on EU law and commercial law. She also graduated cum laude from an LLM in Intellectual Property law and Knowledge Management at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
Mohammad Shahnewaz is a dual qualified lawyer (England and Bangladesh) and also part completed New York Bar. Mohammad is currently undertaking a PhD research at University of Exeter. His research area includes a comparative analysis of performers' rights in the UK and Bangladesh. He is currently looking at intangible cultural heritage and the role IP laws and more specifically copyright play in promoting and protecting them.
Stephen Pennock is a PhD candidate in the School of Law at the University of Exeter where he also teaches on the School’s Intellectual Property module. Stephen’s research centres on the relationship between copyright and contract law. In particular, his research concerns how the balance of rights within a copyright system is impacted by the imposition of contracts which seek to amend elements of copyright law and whether contracts which seek to replace central tenants of copyright are permissible as a matter of contract law itself. His project examines the use of existing contractual doctrines and the principle of copyright pre-emption to re-examine copyright contracts and re-assert any missing balancing of rights in order to best achieve the policy goals of copyright. He was awarded his LLB and LLM with distinction by the University of Exeter.
Adrian Storrier is a PhD Candidate and Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Visiting Research Student at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. His research interests include copyright exceptions, overlapping intellectual property regimes, and open licensing. His dissertation project examines the relationship between copyright exceptions and inconsistent contractual provisions from a theoretical perspective. Adrian currently teaches Intellectual Property Law at the University of Melbourne
Andrew Merry is a DPLP student at the University of Aberdeen. His areas of interest include Art law and Cultural Heritage law. He has a specific interest in the interactions of Human Rights, Intellectual Property Rights and Cultural rights in property in the sale or reproduction of items of art and cultural property. Before commencing the DPLP, Andrew was a Post Graduate Research student at the University of Aberdeen in Art law, resulting in an LLM titled “The Continuing Search for a Solution to Nazi-Era Art Disputes.”
Salomo Jhuan Anggara is a technology, telecommunications and media lawyer in Indonesia and is currently undertaking his LLM degree in Intellectual Property and Information Law at King’s College London.
Salomo obtained his bachelor of law degree in 2010 from Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia, where he graduated cum laude from the law school. He has been working with one of Indonesia's leading corporate law firms for more than 4 years. At the firm, He has gained experiences in media, telecommunications, IT and aviation practice area. He has also passed his bar in Indonesia.
Salomo is also a candidate of Associateship of King’s College, a traditional King’s College London course on ethics, philosophy and theology, biblical studies and Christian doctrine that runs alongside his LLM program. In addition, Salomo is now a member of the Society for Computers and Law in the United Kingdom.
Megan Rea Blakeley - Postgraduate Researcher in Intellectual Property Law and Cultural Value (University of Glasgow)
Profile soon to be published
Andrea Wallace - PhD researcher in Intellectual Property Law (University of Glasgow)
Profile soon to be published
Kathryn Jones is a final year LLB Law with International Study student at the University of Exeter, with professional and academic experience in both English and Australian intellectual property law. Kathryn hopes to follow her interest in intellectual property law in her professional career.
Andrew Black - Research Assistant (University of Edinburgh)
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Pratyush Nath Upreti is a young IP enthusiast from Nepal. He hold Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Law (BSc.LLB) with Honours in Intellectual Property from India . Currently, he is pursuing LLM (Intellectual Property & Knowledge Management) at Maastricht University, The Netherlands as UM High Potential Scholar and will be completing his degree on June, this year. His research interest includes Intellectual Property, Investment law and Public Interest issues. He is currently working on research project titled 'Permitting Transformative Use under Copyright Law: The Case of Parody as Innovation" with fellow students of European Intellectual Property Institutes Network (EIPIN). Additionally, Pratyush regularly contributes on socio-legal political issues in leading English Newspaper in Nepal.
I am from Least developed countries (LDCs), where Intellectual Property is underdeveloped. we also lack expertise on the subject at academia and in practice. Therefore, I choose this field not only aim to develop IP regime in Nepal but also to raise the voices of LDCs at international Intellectual Property. I think New IP Lawyer's is great initiative as it gives a platform to share Intellectual Property, `culture, science and creativity."
Míchel Olmedo Cuevas is a Spanish lawyer working at IURISTECH Abogados 2.0 (Madrid). Míchel finished his LLB at Universidad de Málaga in 2013 and inmediatly enrolled at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid to undertake the LLM IP & IT program, completing it in 2014, being chosen to represent the program in the VI OHIM Universities Network, presenting his Master thesis entitled "The probative value of affidavits: is the case law of the General Court too conservative?".
His research interests include non-traditional trademarks (mostly shapes and sounds), the IP surrounding all creative industries (with a strong focus towards TV and music industries) and the application of traditional copyright figures to the digital world.
Marco Pisana Collurafici
I first stepped into the IP World in 2011, when I started attending the LLM in IP law at Universidad de Alicante, also thanks to the OEPM scholarship which they recognised me. Thereafter, in the summer of 2012, right after the completion of the abovementioned LLM, Prof. Toshiko Takenaka, director of the CASRIP – IP Department at University of Washington, Seattle –, invited me to attend the 2012 CARSRIP Summer Institute, in Seattle (USA).
These two first experiences have been incredibly useful for my career, since at the LLM in Alicante most of my colleagues were from almost every country of South America, whilst in Seattle I had the chance to meet IP professionals from all over the world, from Japan to Saudi Arabia passing by Singapore. All this, gave me a worldwide understanding of what IP means in business nowadays, as well as a valuable net of contacts.
In the fall of 2013 I became a student of the Certificate in Trade Mark Law and Practice, at Queen Mary (University of London), which I have only recently completed so becoming a PQ Trademark Attorney in the UK, according to ITMA rules.
In February 2014, the OHIM engaged me for a traineeship, during which I worked as an examiner of AG and RG in the Operations Department (a.k.a. OD).
Finally, since November 2014, I have been working for the trademark department of the European top-tier IP law firm Hoyng Monegier, which recently became Hoyng Rokh Monegier, following the merger with the German IP group ROKH (Reimann Osterrieth Köhler Haft).
Cristina Hernández-Martí is a Spanish lawyer working with the IP department of Hernandez Marti Abogados, based at the Barcelona Office.
Ms. Hernández-Martí has a degree in law from the University of Valencia (Spain), with an exchange at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in Mainz (Germany).
She began her career with various Spanish law firms specializing in business law and intellectual property, as well as with the Department of Industrial Property of Taylor Wessing in Germany.
Cristina also pursued her LL.M. in intellectual and industrial property at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (organized by the prestigious Max Planck Institute and George Washington University among others). She speaks Spanish, English and German.
Cristina regularly participates in various professional association, forums and publications. Her current interest and latest publication is on non-traditional trademarks, having published an article about smell protection in the European Intellectual Property Review, “The possibility of IP protection for smell” (E.I.P.R. 2014, 36(10), 665-674 ).
My email: cristina@hernandez-marti.com
Mattias Rättzén is a postgraduate taught LL.M. student at Lund University from Sweden with an academic background in, inter alia, intellectual property law. He will complete his LL.M. degree in September 2015 and aspires a career with a focus on intellectual property law.
His research interests in intellectual property law include international issues such as territoriality and extraterritoriality and how these impact private international law as well as substantive law.
Mattias Rättzén is currently writing his master thesis on these topics from a Swedish perspective, with elements of comparative research. He is also currently doing a legal internship at the Division for Intellectual Property and Transport Law at the Ministry of Justice in Sweden, conducting legal research for legislative proposals in intellectual property law. He is a member of Nova 100, an exclusive talent network for the most talented and driven students at Swedish universities.
Yannos Paramythiotis studied Law at the University of Athens, as well as at Freie Universität Berlin, where he received a master’s degree (LL.M.) in corporate law. He is a PhD candidate on Intellectual Property Law at the Democritus University of Thrace. Currently he is a guest researcher at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. He is a DAAD scholar. He has attended the online program on American copyright law held by Harvard Law School.
His main interests are works and inventions made by employees, trade secrets and copyright in music.
He publishes articles in law journals and maintains lawgrip.net, a blog, in which he maps out and analyzes intellectual property issues from around the globe (in greek). He is a member of the Association of Greek Commercialists. He practices law in Athens. Appelate attorney and a member of the Athens Bar Association since 2009. He speaks Greek, English and German.
email: yannos@paramythiotis.gr
Geoff Dragon is a trainee solicitor with Taylor Vinters LLP. He has worked in their Commercial & Technology department undertaking work involving a wide range of IP issues. Geoff has also carried out work for the Taylor Vinters ‘Brands Team’ where he has assisted with many clients’ brand protection and trade mark matters. His passion for IP law stems from two years studying the IP at both University and on the Legal Practice Course and he is heavily interested in how IP law will evolve in order to stay relevant against social, technological and digital advancements.
Viola Prifti holds a doctoral degree in law and economics from the University of Hamburg (2014). Prior to that, she obtained her law degree (full honors) and a degree in magistrate studies from the University of Pisa in Italy. Viola has interned in several legal areas both in Italy and Germany and conducted postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich from 2014 to 2015.
She has published on topics related to the intellectual protection of plant varieties and her research interests include intellectual protection of plant varieties, economics of innovation as well as international and European law. Her doctoral thesis is published as a book by Springer in the International Law and Economics series and shows the compliance of breeding exceptions to patent rights with the TRIPS Agreement. Viola likes to adopt an interdisciplinary approach in her work by combining economic and legal theory as well as empirical studies. If law and economics do not satisfy her curiosity, she jumps into other disciplines such as plant biology or sociology. Viola is fully convinced that an interdisciplinary approach can help us better understand the multifaceted societal phenomena and offer practical solutions.
Chris Garstka is a 3rd year PhD (Law) candidate at the University of Nottingham, supervised by prof. Estelle Derclaye and prof. Paul Torremans, and co-sponsored by Google UK. His doctoral research is focused on finding the most adequate set of pan-European legal tools aimed at the removal of access to online content infringing copyright, trademarks, privacy or reputation. His research interests include information technology law and IP law. Chris is also teaching tort law and is the UK contributor to the World Intermediary Liability Map project.
Loïc Fouquet is a French lawyer (avocat) from Paris, in the fields of media, entertainment, new technologies and internet law.
Loïc graduated from the Paris bar school in September 2014. He previously undertook a Master’s degree in Literary, Artistic and Industrial Property and graduated from University Paris II Panthéon Assas in 2012. He worked as teaching assistant for two years at the University of Evry Val d’Essonne mainly in civil law and insolvency procedures before joining a French international media group for a six months internship.
Loïc has now been working as a junior associate at NomoS law firm in Paris since July 2014, with recognized French IP and entertainment law specialists.
He is particularly interested in the adaptation of entertainment and media laws and businesses to the digital age. Among his main interests is notably the question of the role of technical intermediaries in the delivery of media content, and the development, influence and heritage of online content piracy in IP law. He closely follows the recent debates around the revision of the European directive on copyright and related rights, as well as recent and pending CJEU cases, especially regarding hyperlinking which may strongly influence EU IP law.
As a passionate music enthusiast and an active musician for ten years, he developed a strong affinity with the music business over the last years as well.
Elaine Maguire O'Connor is begining a PhD at Queen Mary University in September 2015 focusing on intellectual property law and the fashion industry. She is a lecturer, writer and consultant and founder of the popular fashion law blog Wigs And Gowns. She holds an LLM in Commercial Law from Trinity College Dublin and an LLM in Entertainment Law from University Westminster. Elaine's other main research interest is intellectual property law and the music industry.
Aleksandra Kozak has recently graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Her interest in IP law has its origin in 2014, when she attended the Munich University Summer Programe in Munich (known as the European capital of intellectual property). She wrote her master thesis on the topic of Abuse of Dominant Position by the Standard Essential Patent Holder on the example of Samsung and Huawei cases.
Aleksandra’s interests focus mainly on the position of intellectual property and new technologies law in the EU legal system. She is currently planning to learn more about the subject of patent trolling in the EU, which combines intellectual property as well as competition law matters.
She hopes to follow these interests in her future law carrier not only in Poland but also abroad.
Natasha Bowyer is a trainee solicitor at Taylor Vinters LLP and will qualify into the firm’s top-rated Commercial & Technology team in September 2015. She particularly enjoys trade mark work and is looking forward to becoming a fully-qualified member of the firm’s successful Brands practice. Her interest in IP stems from in-house work experience while at university and, more recently, working as paralegal in the IP/IT team at Slaughter and May where she gained great experience. Natasha studied Law with French Law and Language at the University of East Anglia, with a year abroad at the Université Nancy II, France. She is a member of IPSoc and the Society for Computers and Law and is keen to get involved with the New IP Lawyers Network to meet and learn from like-minded lawyers.
Naomi Bruwer is a candidate attorney in the trade mark department at Von Seidels, a leading IP firm in South Africa. She has a diverse set of interests which includes domain name disputes and IP issues in the entertainment industry. But more specifically she is intrigued with IP issues in the digital environment and has a passion for all things tech and innovation related
Nallie Yue is currently a LLM student at Queen Mary University of London specialising Intellectual Property Law. As an avid artist from youth, she has always been fascinated by the way in which the concept of creativity meshed with the rest of the world beyond just the realm of artistic pursuit and looks forward to learning more about how law and creativity intersect.
Alena Kapachova is a lawyer from Belarus and currently finishing Advanced LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law and Knowledge Management (IPKM) at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Her research interests include modern developments in copyright and trademark law, relationships between law, information technology and cultural heritage. Her thesis addresses comparative legal analysis of the concept of the union trademark system in the Eurasian union. Besides her main work as a business law consultant, Alena is engaged in activities of Creative Commons Affiliate in Belarus, particularly, in translation and legal implementation of the licenses in accordance with Belarusian legal framework.
Email: alenakapachova@gmail.com
Nevena Kostova is a CREATe*-funded PhD researcher at the University of Edinburgh exploring the relationship between copyright, creators’ organisations and new business models. Her research is empirical, focusing on the role played by creators’ organisations in the music and publishing industries in applying and shaping the law of copyright. As part of her project she contributes to a blog on Copyright and Creators: http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/copyrightandcreators/.
Nevena holds a law degree from the University of Freiburg, Germany. Prior to beginning her doctoral research she also completed an LLM in Intellectual Property Law with a distinction at the University of Edinburgh.
Alongside her research, Nevena also tutors on the eLLM Intellectual Property Law Programme at the University of Edinburgh. She is also a co-convenor of the IP, IT and Media Law Discussion Group at Edinburgh Law School. Her research interests lie in the area of copyright with a particular emphasis on copyright exploitation in new business models and the societal implications of the law. Other areas of interest include trade marks, data protection law and privacy.
*CREATe is the Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy funded by the UK Research Councils.
A Swedish/English/Bosnian native/bilingual speaker and recent LLB graduate from the University of Southampton, Nedim Malovic is currently an LLM student in European Intellectual Property Law at Stockholm University. Besides gaining professional experience in Sweden as project and sales manager, paralegal and victim/witness support, during his time in Southampton, Nedim was involved in several extra-curricular activities. Among other things, he wrote a contribution for the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice on a 2014 decision of the High Court of England and Wales on the law applicable to online copyright infringements (Omnibill v Egpsxxx and Carter [2014] EWHC 3762 (IPEC)). He also won the Shoosmiths Gerald Dworkin Prize 2015 for the best performance in the sit-down intellectual property law exam, and the 2015 prize for Outstanding Contribution to the Law School.
Nedim Malovic
U. Shen Goh is a Ph.D. Candidate working under the supervision of Professor David Vaver at Osgoode Hall Law School. While her prior LL.M. research focused on the international protection of famous marks, her current Ph.D. research focuses on whether Canadian law is adequately protecting foreign language marks. Her work explores a pressing problem in international trade: how to address the inconsistent treatment of foreign language marks in Western trademark registries and court proceedings. She is an intellectual property lawyer, trademark agent, and co-author of the Branding & Trade Marks Handbook (2006) and Branding & Copyright for Charities and Non-Profit Organizations (2014). She won Best Presentation in the Eltaira Award Competition 2015 and can be reached atUngShenGoh@osgoode.yorku.ca.
U. Shen Goh
Judith Bussé is an associate at Crowell & Moring's Brussels office and is a member of the Intellectual Property Group. She assists clients in enforcing their intellectual property rights in a variety of sectors, with particular experience in the pharmaceutical & life sciences sector, the media & entertainment industry, and the fashion sector.
Prior to joining Crowell & Morning, Judith obtained a specialized LL.M. degree in innovation, competition, and trade law at the London School of Economics. At LSE, she focused on the overlap between intellectual property and competition law, while also maintaining a strong interest for IT law. Judith furthermore represented the LSE in the Mediation Skills Competition, organized by the UK Worshipful Company of Arbitrators.
In 2013, Judith earned her master's degree, cum laude, at the K.U.Leuven. During her curriculum, she focused on European and economic law and won the Mertens de Wilmars pleading competition.
Judith Bussé
Nick Smallwood
Nick Smallwood is a trainee solicitor with Taylor Vinters LLP. Before starting at Taylor Vinters, he wrote around 140 light-hearted intellectual property law blog posts for the London law firm Briffa. Nick first got interested in intellectual property while studying the LPC at the University of Law in York and has been known to bore friends and family by pointing out instances of potential intellectual property infringement in everyday life. Nick is interested in the normative as well as the practical aspects of intellectual property law – e.g. whether lengthy patent and copyright terms are in consumers’ best interests.
Kirsty Devine
Kirsty Devine is a trainee solicitor at Taylor Vinters LLP. Kirsty’s interest in intellectual property developed during her time in the firm’s Brand Protection team, where she carried out trade mark work for a number of high profile clients.
Kirsty studied Law at the University of East Anglia before taking up a role within the Norfolk Constabulary. She studied Commercial Law and Intellectual Property during her LPC and is keen to gain further exposure to his fast-paced and exciting area of law. Kirsty is particularly interested in the developing EU case law and the impact this has on business start-ups looking to build their own brand.
Robyn Le Friec
Robyn Le Friec is a trainee solicitor with Taylor Vinters in Cambridge. Robyn became interested in intellectual property after studying IP law at University and during the Legal Practice Course. In the summer of 2012 she worked at Wilmer Hale in London and was involved in speed networking events with technology and digital media start-up companies that were seeking IP advice for their ideas. Prior to commencing her training contract, Robyn worked as an Assistant Contracts Paralegal at the University of Warwick. Here she became involved in drafting IP licences and assignments for Warwick Ventures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University, that specialises in helping current and former students generate a commercial return from their research. Her involvement with start-ups has fuelled her passion for helping individuals bring their ideas to life and she is keen to contribute towards commercialising new innovations.
As a sportswoman, Robyn has a particular interest in wearable technology with a focus on fitness and health. She is keen to see how IP law will develop within this area in order to maintain its relevance with advancements in technology.
Jurate Breimelyte
Jūratė is a legal practitioner from Lithuania. She is currently working as a Chief Executive Officer in a young company IAM Consultants, Ltd. The company is providing a wide range of intellectual property services, including patent drafting, trade marks and designs consultations, IP strategy management.
Jūratė is a Ph.D. student at Barcelona Autonomous University. Her Ph.D. topic is "Intellectual property rights in biobanking". Jūratė holds an LL M degree in International Laws from the Maastricht University. In 2014 she was having a traineeship in OHIM, Boards of Appeal division. After finishing her traineeship, she started working at the Lithuanian State Patent Bureau and was also teaching Intellectual Property Law at Mykolas Romeris University (Vilnius, Lithuania). Jūratė is constantly attending different intellectual property events, following IP courses, writing and publishing articles from this field.
Victor Buziba Nzomo
Victor B. Nzomo is a qualified Kenyan Attorney (Advocate) turned Intellectual Property (IP) law researcher, who blogs about IP in Kenya and Africa at @IPKenya. Victor holds a Bachelor of Laws degree (LL.B), from the University of South Africa and completed his Master of Laws degree (LL.M) at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. In 2012, he was one of the founding members of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) at Strathmore University Law School in Kenya. Since 2012, he has been engaged at CIPIT as Consultant and Research Fellow. His main area of research focuses on technology and IP in the African context with heavy focus on the use or non-use of IP as a tool for companies, innovators, and entrepreneurs.
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Hayleigh Bosher is a final year PhD candidate at the Centre for Intellectual Property, Policy and Management (CIPPM), Bournemouth University, under the Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship Award. Her research interests include digital copyright law and the internet, legal language and interpretation, and copyright education. Her thesis focuses on digital copyright infringement by way of copying and communication to the public online, looking particularly at the language and interpretation of the law in relation to online activity. Whilst at CIPPM Hayleigh has been involved in a number of research projects including Copyrightuser.org<http://copyrightuser.org/>; a collaborative project between CREAte and CIPPM, funded by RCUK/AHRC since 2013. Working on this project involved, among other things, co-authoring an A Level Copyright Educational Resource<http://copyrightuser.org/schools/a-level-media-studies/>.
Hayleigh Bosher
Ertugrul Canbolat
Ertugrul has been working as a legal consultant and lawyer for three years in Turkey with a main focus on the interface between the intellectual property law and competition law. He has provided legal advice to leading companies operating in various industries including the highly regulated sectors both in Turkey and abroad on the areas such as competition law, antidumping law, regulation, copyright law, contract and corporate law. He has been responsible for creating and carrying out compliance programmes and risk assessment. He has also had a key role in the preparation of due diligence reports and M&A transactions. Besides, he has conducted extensive legal research on various matters and accordingly, he has prepared many petitions and memorandums. He has also represented multinational companies before the Turkish authorities and ministries.
As for his education, Ertugrul graduated with an LLM degree in International Commercial Law from the University of Exeter, UK and previously graduated from Bilkent University, School of Law in June, 2011, finished Österreichisches Sankt Georgs-Kolleg in Istanbul in 2006. During his LLM, he took energy&environmental law, international investment law, copyright law, mergers&acquisitions, and competition law courses and passed with distinction. During his LLM study, he wrote a paper which discussed how the Guidance has failed to provide a great precision as has been expected by the consumer welfare supporters due to the limitations of its applicability, and resulting from the uncertainties in the regulation of the main parameters of the Article 102 such as dominant position, anti-competitive foreclosure and the objective justifications for the exclusionary abuses, albeit it seems that it employs the effect-based approach. Another article of his focuses on the problems regarding the copyright owners’ right to authorise. In his dissertation, he focused on the Competition Law and Intellectual Property Law. He has the Dean's Commendation for his academic excellence.
Grace Lindo
Grace Lindo is an IP/Technology attorney in Jamaica and currently an LLM candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a member of INTA and her areas of interest include copyright/trademarks on the internet, data protection, competition in IP, financing (especially secured financing) using IP to generate wealth.
She expects to complete my LLM in 2016 and I possess degrees in Media and Communication as well as Law both from the University of the West Indies.
