European Patent Law

• Gives an indepth and comprehensive overview of the European patent law system.
• Offers a timely and important study on the new unified patent court.
• Shows the interaction between national and European level and cross-border elements.

Lord Justice Colin Birss, Court of Appeal England and Wales; Guillaume Dubos, Partner, Abello IP Firm, Paris; Gail E. Evans, Reader in the Licensing of Intellectual Property, Queen Mary University of London; Jean-Christophe Galloux, Professor, Sorbonne-Assas Law School; Heinz Goddar, Partner, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT, honorary Professor for Intellectual Property, the University of Bremen and the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC); Sam Granata, Judge, Court of Appeal Antwerp, Belgium and the Benelux Court and Judge, Unified Patent Court, Local Division, Brussels; Maximilian Haedicke, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Freiburg and Judge, Unified Patent Court, Central Division, Paris; Naomi Hawkins, Professor in Intellectual Property Law, University of Sheffield; Thomas Jaeger, Professor of European Law, University of Vienna; Alan Johnson, Consultant, Hogan Lovells International, London; Phillip Johnson, Professor of Commercial Law, Cardiff University; Tamar Khuchua, Post-doctoral Researcher, SciencesPo University, Paris; Matthias Lamping, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich; Thomas Leconte, European Patent Attorney, Abello IP Firm, Paris; Amandine Léonard, Early Career Fellow in Intellectual Property Law, University of Edinburgh; Stefan Luginbuehl, PhD, Lawyer, Head of Department, European Patent Office; Johannes Lukan, University Assistant (prae doc) at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law, University of Vienna; Miłosz Malaga, PhD, Assistant Professor, Chair of European Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań; Aisling McMahon, Professor of Law, Maynooth University; Marc Mimler, Senior Lecturer, City University of London; Duncan Matthews, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary University of London; Ana Nordberg, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Lund University; Justyna Ożegalska-Trybalska, Assistant Professor, Intellectual Property Law Chair, Jagiellonian University in Kraków; Maciej Padamczyk, Research Associate and PhD Candidate, Queen Mary University of London; Frantzeska Papadopoulou, Private Law, Stockholm University; Klara Polackova Van der Ploeg, Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham; Christoph Rademacher, Professor, Waseda University, Tokyo; Stéphanie Rollin de Chambonas, Lawyer, Abello IP Firm, Paris; Alison Slade, Associate Professor, University of Leicester; Tomasz Targosz, Assistant Professor Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Partner TKP, Kraków; Matilda Titeca, Trainee, European Patent Office; Paul Torremans, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Nottingham; Hanns Ullrich, Honorary Professor, College of Europe, Bruges; Fernand de Visscher, Partner, Simont Braun LLP, Brussels, and Scientific associate CRIDES (UCLouvain); Karen Walsh, Assistant Professor in Law, Maynooth University; Konstantin Werner, PhD candidate, Humboldt University Berlin; Jacques de Werra, Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Contract Law, Director of the Digital Law Centre, University of Geneva; Żaneta Zemła-Pacud, Assistant Professor in the Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Science, Of Counsel in TKP, Warsaw; Esther van Zimmeren, Professor in Intellectual Property Law & Governance University of Antwerp, coordinator of the GOVTRUST Centre of Excellence of the University of Antwerp.