Jeremy Phillips

Jeremy Phillips (born 25 December 1951^[1]) is a retired British academic, author, editor, publisher, and commentator in intellectual property (IP) law.^[1][2][3] In 2007, he was reported to be "a respected IP academic" and "a well-known figure among IP lawyers."^[3]

Jeremy Phillips
Born	(1951-12-25) December 25, 1951 (age 73)
Alma mater	Cambridge University University of Kent

Career

He read law at Cambridge University in the early 1970s and went on doing a PhD at the University of Kent.^[2] He then taught law at Trinity College Dublin, Durham University, and Queen Mary University of London.^[2]

In 1990, he launched the Managing Intellectual Property magazine^[3][4] and sold it to Euromoney Publications in 1991.^[1] He also edited the magazines Patent World, Trademark World and Copyright World and cofounded the IPKat weblog.^[3][4][2] He also contributed to the Afro-IP blog and the Class 46 blog on European Trade Mark law.^[5] He was editor of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (JIPLP), European Trade Mark Reports and European Copyright and Design Reports journals. He was also a council member of the Intellectual Property Institute.^[6]

He was consultant at the law firm Slaughter and May until May 2007 and worked as a consultant at the law firm Olswang from June 2007 until his retirement in 2015.^[3][4][7] He was visiting professor at the Faculty of Laws of University College London (UCL), the Bournemouth Law School, Bournemouth University, and the University of Alicante.^[8] He was also professorial fellow at the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute from 2003 to 2006.^[1]

Bibliography

Partial list.

• Employees' Inventions in the United Kingdom, ESC Pub., 1982, ISBN 0-906214-11-4, coauthored with M J Hoolahan
• An Introduction to Intellectual Property Law, Butterworths Law, 1995, ISBN 0-406-04515-1, coauthored with Alison Firth
• Trade Mark Law: A Practical Anatomy, Oxford University Press, 2003 ISBN 0-19-926796-0