ABOUT JEREMY PHILLIPS

Jeremy Phillips, who holds degrees from Cambridge and Kent, is a Professorial Fellow, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, and Visiting Professor to the universities of Alicante, UCL and Bournemouth. He is also intellectual property consultant to London-based solicitors Slaughter and May. As a co-founder of Ipkat, Jeremy is committed to its development as a medium in which intellectual property news and comment is presented in a user-friendly and relevant manner.

Jeremy edits the European Trade Mark Reports, the European Copyright and Design Reports and the Information Technology Law Reports and is consultant editor to Butterworths' Intellectual Property Law Handbook and E-Commerce and Information Technology Law Handbook. Together with Ilanah Simon he is a consultant to the case law database of MARQUES, the organisation of European trade mark proprietors. He has also written numerous articles and books, the most recent of which are Introduction to Intellectual Property Law (Butterworths, fourth edition, 2002, co-authored with Alison Firth) and Trade Mark Law: a Practical Anatomy (Oxford University Press, 2003).