“… Now you might think there is an easy answer to that question but before jumping to conclusions, I would like to just reflect on a couple of things. Like many people who have stayed in IP law for a good while, once my legal career got going, I settled into a practice fighting multi-zillion dollar patent cases for global multinational corporations. Unlike some cases, that kind of litigation more closely resembled a Cecil B De Mille movie production like The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston (or Robin Jacob?) as Moses. As a young lawyer you start out as the second spear carrier, mostly off camera …”
The Right Hon Lord Justice Colin Birss (Deputy Head of Civil Justice), Keynote Speech: Can The IP System Serve Small Businesses Better?, UCL IPAN Event, 23 February 2022.
First posted 2022-03-15 08:00:15
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