Mark Anderson
OpinionPost Office: time for the Law Society to step up
Our credibility as solicitors is tarnished. Chancery Lane must take a much greater role in supporting and enforcing ethical standards.
OpinionDocumenting death is in a time warp
The system seems designed for the comfort and convenience of the people administering it.
OpinionThe profession must put IP in its rightful place
Intellectual property is at the heart of our economy, and should be at the heart of our legal system.
OpinionBake Off: what’s to stop the BBC reinventing the show?
TV production companies try to accrue a mass of IP protections to fend off competition.
OpinionContract drafters: don't be complacent
Solicitors churn out contracts full of imperfections while thinking they are good at drafting.
OpinionThe Legal Services Consumer Panel: what now?
Watchdog is a lobbying group for one interest in a diminishing part of the legal ecosystem.
OpinionChanging IP law: nearly there
Reforms promised in the new unjustified threats bill are evidence that patient committee work can pay off.
FeatureGovernance review: commercial imperatives
Is the Law Society institutionally neglectful of commercial solicitors?
OpinionGet up, stand up for IP rights
How does a judgment in a Bob Marley copyright case affect the interpretation of contracts?
OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Guidebook to Intellectual Property
This excellent introduction to intellectual property is a cut above the typical student textbook.
- Opinion
IP royalties law
If I sell you my IP in return for royalties, and you sell on the IP, shouldn’t the new owner be bound to pay me the royalties?
- Feature
The seventh Python
As most fules kno, Monty Python’s Flying Circus was a TV comedy series in the 1960s and 1970s that spawned several films and, in 2005, a stage musical called Spamalot. So ingrained is Python in the public consciousness that (according to Wikipedia) questions about it feature in the examination for ...
- News
Patent court fears
Your report ‘Euro patent court "ruinous for business"' will have left readers who are not specialists in patent law uncertain as to whether the main issue is the principle of the court, its location, procedural rules, languages used, or the training of judges. Most pertinent is the quote from Philip ...