Prof. Jeremy John Phillips (born December 25, 1951) is a British

United Kingdom

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 academic

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, author

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 and commentator in intellectual property

Intellectual property

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 (IP) law

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. He is reported to be "a respected IP academic" and "a well-known figure among IP lawyer

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s."

He was consultant

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 at the law firm

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 Slaughter and May

Slaughter and May

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 until May 2007 and is working as a consultant at the law firm Olswang

Olswang

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 since June 1, 2007. He is visiting professor at the Faculty of Laws of University College London

University College London

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 (UCL), the Bournemouth Law School, Bournemouth University

Bournemouth University

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, and the University of Alicante

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. He was professorial fellow at the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute

Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute

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 from 2003 to 2006.

He launched the Managing Intellectual Property

Managing Intellectual Property

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magazine and sold it to Euromoney Publications in 1991. He also founded the magazines Patent World

Patent World

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, Trademark World and Copyright World and cofounded the IPKat

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weblog

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. He is also an active contributor to the new Afro-IP blog and the Class 46 blog on European Trade Mark law. He is editor of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice

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(JIPLP), European Trade Mark Reports and European Copyright and Design Reports journals. He is a council member of the Intellectual Property Institute

Intellectual Property Institute

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.

External links

• Jeremy Phillips at the University College London
  University College London
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• Jeremy Phillips at IPKat
  IPKat
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• Jeremy Phillips at the Bournemouth University
  Bournemouth University
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   (version archived by the Internet Archive
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   on September 29, 2007)
• Jeremy Phillips at the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute
  Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute
  Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute is a focused research organisation within the Centre for Commercial Law Studies in the School of Law at Queen Mary, University of London...
  
  (version archived by the Internet Archive on April 18, 2007)