Patent Law and Policy (eBook)

Susy Frankel is a Professor of Law and Director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law at Victoria University of Wellington. She is the President of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), the premier global association of academics who work on intellectual property related research and teaching. Since 2008 she has been Chair of the Copyright Tribunal (NZ). She is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of World Intellectual Property Law and the Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property and has been a visiting professor at universities around the world. She publishes and teaches across all areas of intellectual property law including patents, copyright, trade marks, international intellectual property and international trade law.

Jessica C Lai is senior lecturer of commercial law at Victoria University of Wellington, where she researches in intellectual property, especially patent law and the protection of traditional knowledge. She has published numerous articles, chapters, books and edited books in these fields, and is the author of [Indigenous Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property Rights] (Springer 2014) and co-author of [Patent Law and Policy] (with Susy Frankel, LexisNexis 2016). Before joining Victoria University, she was a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. Between 2010 and 2012, Jessica was a Research Fellow at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland.