IBIL: Conor v Angiotech on Appeal

UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law (IBIL) Innovation Seminar

Conor v Angiotech on Appeal

Before the Supreme Patent Court 
Justice Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada

Counsel for the Appellants:
The Rt Hon. Professor Sir Robin Jacob
and members of the Audience
 

Counsel for the Respondents:
The Rt Hon Professor Lord Hoffmann
and members of the Audience

Wednesday 23 November 2011 from 6 - 7.30pm
Followed by a reception 

This event is accredited with 1.5 CPD hours by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Bar Standard Board and is relevant CPD for IPReg. 

Programme:

About the speakers and chairman: 
Sir Robin Jacob joined the UCL Faculty of Laws in May 2011 leaving the Court of Appeal of England and Wales to do so. Having read Natural Sciences at Cambridge, Sir Robin then read for the Bar (Grays Inn). He started practice at the Intellectual Property Bar in 1967. From 1976 to 1981 he was the Junior Counsel for the Comptroller of Patents and for all Government departments in intellectual property. He was made a Queen's Counsel in 1981. His practice took him abroad often (Hong Kong, Singapore, Europe, USA, and Australia). He was appointed a High Court Judge (Chancery Division) in 1993. From 1997 to 2001 he was Supervising Chancery Judge for Birmingham, Bristol and Cardiff. He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in October 2003. He was Treasurer of Grays Inn in 2007. He continues to sit from time to time in the Court of Appeal and will sometimes act as an arbitrator or mediator.

He has written extensively on all forms of intellectual property. He often lectures, mainly but not only on IP topics, both in the UK and abroad.
 

Lord Hoffmann joined Queen Mary University of London in June 2009 as Honorary Professor of Intellectual Property Law, following his retirement as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.

The last fourteen years of his judicial career were spent as a Law Lord, prior to which he was a member of the Court of Appeal between 1992 and 1995 and a High Court Judge in the Chancery Division between 1985-1992. He remains an active arbitrator and mediator and continues to be a non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong.

He attended the University of Cape Town and then Queen's College, Oxford, as a Rhodes scholar and won the Vinerian Scholarship. He was called to the bar by Gray’s Inn in 1964 and became Queen’s Counsel in 1977.

The Honourable Mr. Justice Marshall Rothstein
Marshall Rothstein attended the University of Manitoba, where he earned a B. Com. in 1962 and an LL.B. in 1966. After being called to the Manitoba Bar in 1966, he started his career at Thorvaldson, Eggertson, Saunders and Mauro before moving to Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvaldson in 1969, where he was a partner from 1972 to 1992 and a member and periodic Chairman of the Management Committee / Executive Board from 1981 to 1992. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1979. He served as an adjudicator under the Manitoba Human Rights Act from 1978 to 1983 and as a member of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal from 1986 to 1992.

In his practice, he appeared before federal and Manitoba administrative tribunals, the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench, the Manitoba Court of Appeal, the Federal Court – Trial Division, the Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. Justice Rothstein taught transportation law as a lecturer in the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law from 1970 to 1983 and from 1988 to 1992, and contract law in the University’s Extension Department from 1970 to 1975. He was a Bar Admission Course lecturer for the Law Society of Manitoba from 1970 to 1975. He also held many other offices: Secretary (Administrator), Civil Legal Aid Committee, Law Society of Manitoba, 1968-70; Chairman, Commission on Compulsory Retirement (Manitoba), 1981-82; Chairman, Ministerial Task Force on International Air Policy (Canada), 1990-91; Member and Chairman, Manitoba Transportation Industry Development Advisory Committee, 1985-87 and 1987-90 respectively; Member, Airports Task Force, 1985-86; Member, Airports Transfer Advisory Board, 1988-92; and Member, External Advisory Committee, University of Manitoba Transport Institute, 1989-92.

Justice Rothstein was appointed to the Trial Division of the Federal Court of Canada on June 24, 1992; while a judge of the Trial Division, he also served as a member ex officio of the Appeal Division, a judge of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada and a judicial member of the Competition Tribunal. He was elevated to the Federal Court of Appeal on January 21, 1999, and, finally, to the Supreme Court of Canada on March 1, 2006.