Prof. Dr. William R. Cornish († 08.01.2022)

External Scientific Member

Intellectual Property and Competition Law



Biography

Areas of Interest:

IP law

Academic Prizes and Honours

Former Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law

Cambridge University Barrister and Bencher of Gray's Inn

Honorary Queen's Counsel: Fellow of the British Academy

Publications

Edited Works

Encyclopedia of United Kingdom and European Patent Law. Releases 75 and 76 (March and October 2014), Thomson, Sweet & Maxwell, London 2014.

    Interpretation of Patents in Europe. Application of Article 69 EPC (Intellectual Property), Heymanns, Köln; München [u.a.] 2006, XXXV + 305 pp. (together with Jochen Pagenberg).

      Encyclopedia of United Kingdom and European Patent Law, Thomson, Sweet & Maxwell, London 1987 (together with Fiona Clark et al.).

        IIC. International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Beck, München (together with Josef Drexl et al.).

          Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

            Books and Monographs

            Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights (Classics Series), 8. ed., Sweet & Maxwell, London 2013, CXXXIV + 945 pp. (together with David Llewelyn, Tanya Aplin).

              Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights, 7. ed., Sweet & Maxwell, London 2010, CVIII + 974 pp. (together with David Llewelyn, Tanya Aplin).

                The Oxford History of Laws of England - Volume 13: 1820 - 1914 Fields of Development, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, LX + 1106 pp. (together with Stuart Anderson et al.).

                  The Oxford History of Laws of England - Volume 12: 1820 - 1914 Private Law, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, CXXXI + 1190 pp. (together with Stuart Anderson et al.).

                    The Oxford History of Laws of England - Volume 11: 1820 - 1914 English Legal System, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, LXV + 1276 pp. (together with Stuart Anderson et al.).

                      Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights, 6. ed., Sweet & Maxwell, London 2007, CVIX + 918 pp. (together with David Llewelyn).

                        Cases and Materials in Intellectual Property, 4. ed., Sweet & Maxwell, London 2003, LX + 719 pp.

                          Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights, 5. ed., Sweet & Maxwell, London 2003, CX + 895 pp. (together with David Llewelyn).

                            Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and Genetics - a study into the impact and management of intellectual property rights within the healthcare sector, Public Health Genetics Unit, Cambridge Genetics Knowledge Park, Cambridge 2003, 71 pp. (together with Mike Adcock, Margaret Llewelyn).

                              Contributions to Collected Editions, Commentaries, Handbooks and Encyclopaedias

                              The Origins and Structure of the TRIPS Agreement, in: Hanns Ullrich et al. (ed.), TRIPS plus 20 - From Trade Rules to Market Principles (MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 25), Springer, Heidelberg; Berlin 2016, 3 - 51 (together with Kathleen Liddell). DOI

                              • The essays in this volume focus upon the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Agreement, which is an important element in the constitution and practice of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Known to all as the TRIPS Agreement, it reached its twentieth anniversary in operative effect on January 1, 2015. It is unlikely that the text of the TRIPS Agreement will be substantially amended by the Member states of the WTO for at least another decade or two. Our contributors therefore take its current terms as a continuing authority in international law for its immediate future. They do so, however, questioning how far the Agreement was adequate for its own time and how far it remains so in a world that has been changing so extraordinarily during the intervening 20 years and doubtless will continue to do so for the twenty to follow.

                              Editorial Commentary contained in Release 43 and Release 44, in: Encyclopedia of United Kingdom and European Patent Law, Sweet & Maxwell, London 2013.

                                Contributions to Editorial Commentary contained in Release 41 and Release 42 (March and October 2012), in: Encyclopedia of United Kingdom and European Patent Law, Sweet & Maxwell, London 2012.

                                  Secrecy and the Evolution of an Early Patent System, in: Patents and Technological Progress in a Globalized World. Liber Amicorum Joseph Straus (MPI studies on intellectual property, competition and tax law, 6), Springer, Berlin 2009, 751 - 761.

                                    The Practice in the UK, in: William R. Cornish, Jochen Pagenberg (eds.), Interpretation of Patents in Europe. Application of Article 69 EPC (Heymanns intellectual property), Heymanns, Köln 2006, 219 - 249.

                                      Embryo Stem Cells and Intellectual Property, in: Homenaje a A. Bercovitz. Estudios sobre propiedad industrial e intelectual y derecho de la competencia. Colección de trabajos en homenaje a Alberto Bercovitz Rodríguez-Cano, 2. ed., Grupo Español de la AIPPI, Barcelona 2005, 283 - 293.

                                        Taking the Common Law to Poland, in: Prawo Prywatne Czasu Przemian – Festschrift für Professor Stanislaw Soltysinski, Universität Adam Miekiewicz, Poznan 2005, 45 - 54.

                                          The Enforcement of Patent Rights in the United Kingdom, in: Christopher Heath, Laurence Petit (eds.), Patent Enforcement Worldwide. A survey of 15 countries. Writings in honour Dieter Stauder (IIC studies, 23), 2. ed., Hart, Oxford 2005, 87 - 108 (together with David Llewelyn).

                                            Who Applies a Doctrine of Equivalence?, in: „...und sie bewegt sich doch!“ – Patent Law on the Move – Festschrift für Gert Kolle und Dieter Stauder zum 65. Geburtstag, Heymanns, Köln 2005, 115 - 121 (together with David Llewelyn).

                                              The Copyright History of What-Must-Have-Been, in: Les cahiers de propriété intellectuelle - Mélanges Victor Nabhan, Yvon Blais, Cowansville 2004, 61 - 74.

                                                Journal Articles

                                                Intellectual Property in Britain - The Gowers Review, IIC 1 (2007), 1 - 5.

                                                  Procedures and Remedies for Enforcing IPRs: the European Commission´s Proposed Directive, EIPR 25, 10 (2003), 447 - 449 (together with Reto M. Hilty et al.).

                                                    Developments in the United Kingdom: Privacy and the Press, Auteurs & media 4 (2002), 334 - 338.

                                                      Reviews

                                                      Review of: Stallberg, Christian Gero: Urheberrecht und moralische Rechtfertigung. Münsterische Beiträge zur Rechtswissenschaft Bd. 164, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2006, 356 S. ISBN 978-3-428-12024-6, ZUM 51, 6 (2007), 510 - 511.

                                                      • Externer Rezensent

                                                      Research Papers

                                                      ALLEA Statement on Patent-Related Aspects of CRISPR-Cas Technology, ALLEA Secretariat, Berlin 2016, 7 pp. (together with ALLEA Permanent Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights et al.).