Adam Liberman

Adam Liberman, one of Australia's leading IP lawyers, is nowGeneral Counsel of CSIRO, Australia's national science agency.Also an established IP author, here he found time to answerquestions put to him by JIPLP. How did you first become interested in IP? Various unrelated strands formed my IP interest. The first waswhen I read Charles     

IP: It's also about trust and French chefs

There is a principle in the law known as ‘admission againstinterest’. Here is my own admission. While we are delightedto bring together this collection of quality articles aboutthe multifaceted world of IP licensing and technology transfer,something is missing: we need to broaden our coverage aboutthe diverse ways that IP rights are licensed and transferred. To judge from the professional literature, licensing and technologytransfer primarily address the exploitation of patents, copyright,and trade marks. Each of these rights is based upon disclosureand     

Guest Editorial

IP law is an integral area of the law for any society and indeedhas been part of the legal landscape in some western nationsfor centuries. Many jurisdictions in the east however have relativelyyoung IP regimes. Does youth mean immaturity? Surely not. Ifanything, many Asian jurisdictions have the opportunity to leap-frogthe sometimes obfuscated jurisprudence of the west reachingmore sensible conclusions. The uniqueness and importance of the IP landscape in Asia     

In Person

Professor Gomulkiewicz is currently undertaking research intothe history of IP licences in Oxford. He is usually based atthe University of Washington Law School where he directs thegraduate programme in IP law and policy. Prior to joining thefaculty, he was Associate General Counsel at Microsoft. He     

In person

Based in Japan, John Tessensohn is a board member of ShusakuYamamoto, a leading Japanese IP practice. John specializes inpatent litigation, trademark, unfair competition, anti-counterfeitingand licensing matters. Born and raised in Singapore, he holdsan LL.B (Hons.) from National University of Singapore and     

Slawomira Piotrowska

Polish patent attorney Slawomira Piotrowska is a well-knownand popular figure on the international IP circuit. After astint with the Polish Patent Office, Slawomira joined PATPOLin 1992 and has remained in private practice ever since then,currently leading the firm's trade marks department. A     

Frederick Mostert

Frederick Mostert, one-time International Trademark AssociationPresident and author of a leading text on Famous Marks, spearheadsthe branding and trade mark protection activities of luxurygoods house Richemont. Here, he pauses from his hectic lifeto tell us a little about himself. How did you first become interested in IP? As     

In Person

Arnaud Folliard-Monguiral is a lawyer in OHIM's Industrial PropertyLitigation Unit. He is the regular contributor, with David Rogers,of the JIPLP annual Community trade mark case law round up.JIPLP managed to catch up with him for long enough to ask afew questions... How did you first become interested in IP? When I was finishing my law studies in the early 90s, IP wasbeing revolutionized     

Gillian Davies

How did you first become interested in IP? After being called to the Bar and completing my pupillage inCommon Law Chambers, I decided I wanted to work in an internationallaw context to make use of my language skills in French andSpanish. Completely by chance, I applied for a job as legalassistant at the United International Bureaux for the Protectionof Intellectual Property (the organization which subsequentlybecame WIPO), in     

Jerome Gilson

Distinguished US lawyer Jerome Gilson has practised trade markand unfair competition law for more than 40 years. He is bestknown in the US and internationally as the original author ofTrademark Protection and Practice (LexisNexis/Matthew Bender),which was renamed Gilson on Trademarks in 2007. How did you first become interested in IP? Five years into general practice, I sent a Time article about     

Laura Azevedo

Laura Azevedo joined Clarke Modet & Co. in Portugal in 1980.She is currently Head of the Trade Marks Department and DeputyGeneral Manager of Clarke Modet & Co. Portugal. How did you first become interested in intellectual property? My interest in IP arose completely by chance. I was in my last year of University and I wanted to start earningmy own pocket money. Living on parental support is complicated,especially when your desires     

Mario Franzosi

When did you notice the first stirrings of becoming an IP man? Straight after graduation, Italian chemical company Edison askedme to consider the validity of some of Natta's polypropylenepatents, for which he won the Nobel prize, owned by Edison'sItalian competitor Montecatini. After some months I concludedthey were invalid for obviousness (the legal concept of obviousnesshaving nothing to do with reality). Later, Edison and Montecatinimerged and I had to say that the patents were valid. The same patents were declared invalid in the US after epiclitigation that     

In Person

Paul Jones is with Jones & Co., a multi-lingual law firmin Toronto, Canada. He found time in his busy schedule to respondto questions posed by JIPLP. How did you first become interested in IP? I began as a commercial lawyer doing franchising, which ledto an interest in trade marks. Later I had a small client whowas threatened with litigation     

Philip Grubb

Dr Philip Grubb, the distinguished patent specialist and authorfound time to answer questions put to him by JIPLP. How did you first become interested in IP? In 1971, I was working as a research scientist at the CorporateResearch Laboratory of ICI in Runcorn, looking for alternativesto a lifetime career in research. A job in the small patentdepartment there was advertised internally. I considered thisbut thought ‘patentssounds difficult, you have to study     

In Person

Ellen has more than 20 years of experience practising trademark and IP law. Formerly a partner and the head of the trademark department with one of the largest intellectual propertyfirms in Israel, she specializes in global branding, trade markand trade     

In Person

Clare, a partner in London solicitors Collyer Bristow, specializesin IP litigation. Much of her work involves trade mark/passingoff litigation, although copyright and design orientated mattersalso constitute important areas of practice for her,     

Sexual Orientation and the Effects of Intimate Partner Violence

Studies have demonstrated a relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and depression and other mental health issues such as suicidal behavior and posttraumatic stress disorder. Despite the breadth of the literature, there is a dearth of information specifically regarding the effects of IPV in same-sex relationships. Information regarding the prevalence of substance abuse and health issues in non-heterosexual IPV victims when compared to heterosexual IPV victims will be extremely helpful in developing tailored victim services to sexual minorities. This study uses the National Violence Against Women Survey to examine hypothesized relationships between IPV, its effects, and sexual orientation. Given the higher prevalence rates of IPV in same-sex relationships (Messinger, 2011 Messinger , A. ( 2011 ). Invisible victims: Same-sex IPV in the National Violence Against Women Survey . Journal of Interpersonal Violence , 26 , 2228 – 2243 .[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), logistic regression models are used to test the hypotheses that non-heterosexual victims of IPV will have higher rates of depression, substance use, and health issues.     

Forget-E-Not: Environmental Liabilities Poised to Rise?

Forget-E-Not: Environmental Liabilities Poised to Rise?

All authors

William M Wilt, Vinay Saqi, Brian Church & Vinay Misquith

https://doi.org/10.1080/10406020490506481

Published online:

10 August 2010

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