Few groups escaped the acerbic tongue of Professor Sir Robin Jacob at his inaugural lecture as the Sir Hugh Laddie Chair in IP Law at University College London last week. Taking as his topic “IP Law: Keep Calm and Carry On” Jacob (a former patent and Court of Appeal judge in the UK) criticised (among others) lobbyists, politicians, journalists, Andrew Gowers, Professor Ian Hargreaves and the Court of Justice of the EU.
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