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Postgraduate Diploma in
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND PRACTICE
RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL September 2014
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The Diploma is an intellectually rigorous academic and professionaldevelopment programme in an area of enormous national and internationalimportance. It will suit anyone seeking to build a career specializing as alawyer in IP, whether or not they have previously studied IP.
The Diploma comprises a two-week residential programme held inSeptember at St Catherines College, Oxford, and a series of weekendworkshops held from October to June in London law firms. It is taught by amix of practising and academic lawyers, and covers the full range of IPsubjects (including Patents, Trade Marks, Unfair Competition and PassingOff, Trade Secrets, Designs, Copyright and Moral Rights) as well as keyaspects of litigious and non-litigious IP practice and procedure.
The Diploma is accredited with 66 CPD hours, 33 CPD hours for the residential programme and 33 hours for the workshops, based on full attendance.
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The Oxford Diploma in IP Law and Practice is a postgraduate vocationalcourse for people embarking on a career in IP law and practice. It is a one-year, part-time course designed to give junior practitioners a grounding inthe fundamentals of IP law and practice. It is taught by senior practitionersand academics, and represents a unique collaboration between the OxfordLaw Faculty and the Intellectual Property Lawyers Association.
The Path to Professional Practicein Intellectual Property
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The Oxford Law Faculty
Law has been taught in Oxford for some 850 years. For centuries Law meantRoman Law, then in 1758 Sir William Blackstone became the first VinerianProfessor of English Law and brought the common law into the university.Since then Oxford has been home to many of the key figures of the moderncommon law.
Today the Faculty keeps faith with its history. The study of the common law,including its interaction with modern legislation and regulation, is central to ourpursuits. But our work has also been enriched by strengths in other areas, suchas Comparative Law, the Philosophy of Law, International Law, European Law,and most recently Intellectual Property Law. Those strengths have been furtherextended and enhanced by involvement with a range of specialist andmultidisciplinary Centres in Criminology, Socio-Legal Studies, European andComparative Law, Competition, Taxation, and Intellectual Property, makingOxford unsurpassed as a place for multidisciplinary work connected with theLaw and its development.
The Oxford Law Faculty is recognised as a faculty of excellence in bothteaching and research. It was awarded 5* in the 1996 and 2001 ResearchAssessment Exercises conducted by the Higher Education Funding Council forEngland. In the 2008 exercise, Oxford had the highest number of staffsubmitted for Law with the full-time equivalent of 103.5, 25% more than anyother university. The results of the exercise show that on the RAE assessments,substantially more top-rated research activity went on in Law at Oxford from2001-7, than in any other university in the UK. The Faculty was also awardedexcellent in the last teaching quality inspection on behalf of HEFCE, and wasranked first for Law in the Guardian Education University Guide 2004, 2005, 2008and 2009.
WELCOME FROM THE DEANProfessor Timothy Endicott
Welcome to the Oxford
Diploma in Intellectual
Property Law and Practice.
This unique programme
serves as the foundation for a career in an
exciting and increasingly vital field of the law.
Intellectual Property has a distinctive
structure, and a distinctive set of intellectual
challenges. Yet IP Law also needs to be
understood in light of allied fields including
competition law, the law of tax, and the law
of finance. Students in the Diploma
programme learn to master the challenges
of this discipline in their widest context in
law, in legal practice, and in commerce. And
they reach that point through intensive work
with senior practitioners and academics at
the frontiers of the field.
Oxford has long been a world-leading
centre for the study of the common law, and
it is now a powerhouse in the study of 21st-
century international financial and
commercial legal regimes. The Diploma
programme is a brilliant opportunity for us to
work with students who will become leaders
in the profession in the practice of IP law, and
also to work with the senior specialists in the
practice of IP Law who will teach in the
residential programme, and in the
workshops that will build on the residential
programme. We are
delighted to welcome you as
members of the community
of Oxford lawyers.
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A unique collaboration between theOxford Law Faculty and the IntellectualProperty Lawyers Association...
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The Oxford
Diploma in
Intellectual Property Law &
Practice is unique in many
respects. But two are
particularly important... first,
the course is comprehensive
in scope... second, it is both
designed and taught in close
collaboration between
leading academics
and practitioners.
The universitys intellectual property research community is built around the
Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre (OIPRC). The Centre provides a
focus within the University for multi-disciplinary, advanced research into all
aspects of intellectual property.
The OIPRC was established in 1990 at St Peter's College by Faculty member
Peter Hayward, with an initial gift from the Hitachi Foundation. In the 1990s, it
developed a visitors programme and multidisciplinary (law and economics)
research agenda. In 1998 Peter Hayward retired, and Professor David Vaver
became Director of the Centre. In October 2008 the OIPRC became a Centre of
the University of Oxford's Faculty of Law, taking its place alongside a growing
number of multidisciplinary Centres.
The current Director of the Centre is Professor Graeme Dinwoodie and there
are eleven academic members from Law, Economics, Politics, the Business
School, and the Oxford Internet Institute. The Centre organises a weekly seminar
series, a visiting researchers programme, periodic conferences and workshops,
and a hugely successful annual international moot that brings together
practitioners, students and academics to address current problems in the eld.
There is also a fortnightly student-led discussion group which has attracted
some high quality speakers. Students on the Diploma are encouraged to
participate in the events organised by the Centre.
Intellectual Property at Oxford
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WELCOME FROM THE COURSE DIRECTOR
The Oxford Diploma in Intellectual Property Law & Practice
is unique in many respects. But two are particularly
important, and these reect the challenges of
contemporary intellectual property law and practice.
First, the course is comprehensive in scope. Intellectual
property law is increasingly complex, putting pressure on
practitioners to specialise in narrow elds of the discipline.
Yet, problems in practice rarely arise so neatly. The Oxford
Diploma oers coverage of all the substantive IP regimes.
And it treats the material in a variety of important contexts
(domestic and international, litigation and transactional).
Second, it is both designed and taught in close
collaboration between leading academics and
practitioners. The growing complexity of intellectual
property law makes a fundamental appreciation of the
underlying legal principles essential to top-level practice.
And the fast-changing commercial and technological
environment in which intellectual property operates
makes exposure to practice signicant for any proper
academic understanding of the subject-matter. The
Oxford Diploma facilitates this essential interaction of law
and practice through the close involvement of leading
members of the legal profession in the design and
teaching of the course. The result is a course in intellectual
property law and practice that is second to none. We look
forward to seeing you in Oxford.
Dr. Dev S. GangjeeAssociate Professorof IntellectualProperty Law
THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
LAWYERS ASSOCIATION IPLA
Founded in 1982 as the Patent
Solicitors Association, the IPLA is a
professional association
representing law rms with
signicant practises in Intellectual
Property. Its members include the
top-ranking specialist IP rms in the
UK, which are responsible for the
majority of IP litigation undertaken
in the UK and Wales today.
One of the central objectives
of the IPLA is to support the
professional development and
education of IP practitioners in the
UK. The IPLA cooperated for many
years with the University of Bristols
one-year Postgraduate Diploma in
Intellectual Property Law and
Practice. In 2008 the IPLA began
its present collaboration with the
University of Oxford. Each course
has shared the primary aim of
delivering high-quality education
of relevance to IP practice through
combined practitioner and
academic teaching.
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FRIDAY5 September
9.15-10.30Trade Marks:Revocation andInvalidity
10.30-11.00Break
11.00-12.30Trade Marks:Enforcement I
12.30-13.30Lunch
13.30-15.15Trade Marks:Enforcement II
15.15-15.45Break
15.45-17.15Trade Marks:Exhaustion
SUNDAY31 August
13.30-14.00Registration(and 17.00-19.30)
14.00-15.00IntroductoryOverview(recommended)
15.00-15.30Break
15.30-17.15IntroductoryOverview(recommended)
19.30Formal Dinner
MONDAY1 September
8.30-9.00Welcome
9.00-9.15Welcome
9.15-10.45Patents
10.45-11.15Break
11.15-13.00Patents
13.00-14.00Lunch
14.00-15.30Patents
15.30-16.00Break
16.00-17.15Patents
TUESDAY2 September
9.00-10.45Patents
10.45-11.15Break
11.15-12.45Patents
12.45-13.45Lunch
13.45-14.30Patents
14.30-15.00Break
15.00-17.00HealthcareRegulation &SPC
WEDNESDAY3 September
9.00-10.30Litigation(Patents)
10.30-11.00Break
11.00-12.30Litigation(Patents)
12.30-14.00Lunch
14.00-15.30Litigation(Patents)
15.30-16.00Break
16.00-17.15Ownership
THURSDAY4 September
9.15-10.45Passing Off &UnfairCompetition
10.45-11.15Break
11.15-12.30Passing Off &UnfairCompetition
12.30-13.30Lunch
13.30-15.15Trade Marks:Registrability
15:15-15.45Break
15.45-17.15Registration ofTrade Marks:Domestic andInternationalRegistration
Week 1, Sunday 31 August to Friday 5 September 2014
Oxford Residential Programme
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MONDAY8 September
8.45-10.45Copyright(Subsistence)
10.45-11.15Break
11.15-12.45Copyright(Property &Ownership)
12.45-13.45Lunch
13.45-15.30Copyright(Infringement)
15.30-16.00Break
16.00-17.30Copyright(ComputerPrograms) andSui GenerisDatabase Right
TUESDAY9 September
9.00-10.30Copyright (P2P& Defences)
10.30-11.00Break
11.00-12.30Designs
12.30-14.00Lunch
14.00-15.30Designs
15.30-16.00Break
16.00-17.30Designs
WEDNESDAY10 September
9.00-10.30Trade Secrets
10.30-11.00Break
11.00-12.30International &EuropeanAspects(Overview)
12.30-14.00Lunch
14.00-15.30International &EuropeanAspects (PrivateInt,'l Law)
15.30-16.00Break
16.00-17.30International &EuropeanAspects (PrivateInt,'l Law)
THURSDAY11 September
9.15-10.45Litigation (Non-Patent)
10.45-11.15Break
11.15-13.00Litigation(Non-Patent)
12.30-14.00Lunch
14.00-15.30CorporateTransactions
15.30-16.00Break
16.00-17.15CorporateTransactions
FRIDAY12 September
9.15-10.45IP Security
10.45-11.15Break
11.15-12.30TaxMiranda Cass
12.30-13.30Lunch
13.30-14.45CompetitionLaw & IP
14:45-15.15Break
15.15-16.45CompetitionLaw & IP
Week 2, Monday 8 September to Friday 12 September 2014
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Teachers on the Residential Programme
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London Weekend Workshops AssessmentThe nine weekend workshops in 2014/15 will be held on the following dates:
Workshop 1 (Trade Marks & Passing Off): 4 October 2014
Workshop 2 (Patents (Review)): 15 November 2014
Workshop 3 (Patents 1): 22 November 2014
Workshop 4 (Patents 2): 17 January 2015
Workshop 5 (IP Aspects of Commercial Transactions): 28 February 2015
Workshop 6 (Copyright): 14 March 2015
Workshop 7 (Designs): 25 April 2015
Workshop 8 (Revision 1-Patents and Copyright): 6 June 2015
Workshop 9 (Revision 2-Trade Marks and Designs): 13 June 20145
The Diploma is assessed by five written assignmentsand two two-hour written public examinations.
In 2014/15, the assessment timetable will be:
Assignment 1 (Trade Marks and Passing Off):due 31 October 2014
Assignment 2 (Patents 1): due 19 December 2014
Assignment 3 (Patents 2):due 13 February 2015
Assignment 4 (Copyright): due 15 April 2015
Assignment 5 (Designs): due 28 May 2015
Final exams: in July 2015
Robert Anderson, Hogan LovellsSara Ashby, Redd Christopher Benson, Taylor WessingMichael Butler, DehnsSarah Byrt, Mayer Brown InternationalMiranda Cass, BristowsJeremy Dickerson, Burges SalmonAndrew Dickinson, University of OxfordGraeme Dinwoodie, University of OxfordAriel Ezrachi, University of OxfordSally Field, BristowsRowan Freeland, Simmons & SimmonsDev Gangjee, University of OxfordMichael Gavey, Simmons & Simmons
Paul Harris, GowlingsStephen Jones, Baker & McKenzieJohn Linneker, SNR DentonCharters Macdonald-Brown, ReddMorag Macdonald, Bird & BirdAngus McLean, Simmons & SimmonsDavid Musker, RGC Jenkins & CoMarjan Noor, Simmons & SimmonsJustine Pila, University of OxfordHamish Sandison, Field Fisher WaterhouseCatriona Smith, Rouse LegalPat Treacy, BristowsSarah Turner, Hogan LovellsPhilip Westmacott, Bristows
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Teaching and accommodation spacesTimeline2014/15
The residential programme will be held at St Catherines College, Oxford
The youngest of the Oxford undergraduate Colleges, St Catherines is adistinguished example of the very best of architecture in the tradition ofEuropean Modernism. The College, designed by the Danish architect, ArneJacobsen, and described by Pevsner as a perfect piece of architecture, is one of only a very few pieces of post-1945 architecture to be Grade 1 listed.Jacobsens buildings are complemented by three new residential blocks, builtby Stephen Hodder MBE in the early 1990s and, more recently, in 2004.
St Catherines offers the benefits of modern accommodation, excellentcatering, and up-to-date meeting and technical facilities, while being a onlyshort walk from the cloisters and quads of traditional Oxford. It lies in extensivegardens and wooded areas just to the north of Magdalen Bridge in theHolywell Great Meadow, between two branches of the River Cherwell.
As students of the Oxford Law Faculty, Diploma candidates will have access to the Law Bodleian Library. Candidates staying in College during the residential programme will also have access to College facilities.
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Timeline for Postgraduate Diploma inIntellectual Property Law and Practice
4 July 2014 Deadline for applications
25 July 2014 Notification of outcome ofapplications
31 August 2014 12 September 2014 Oxford Residential Programme at St Catherines College
4 October 2014 Workshop 1: Trade Marks & Passing Off
31 October 2014 Deadline for courseworkassignment Trade Marks & Passing Off
15 November 2014 Workshop 2: Patents(Review)
22 November 2014 Workshop 3: Patents 1
19 December 2014 Deadline forcoursework assignment Patents 1
17 January 2015 Workshop 4: Patents 2
13 February 2015 Deadline for courseworkassignment Patents 2
28 February 2015 Workshop 5: IP Aspectsof Commercial Transactions
14 March 2015 Workshop 6: Copyright
15 April 2015 Deadline for courseworkassignment Copyright
25 April 2015 Workshop 7: Designs
28 May 2015 Deadline for courseworkassignment Designs
6 June 2015 Workshop 8: Revision 1 Patents and Copyright
13 June 2015 Workshop 9: Revision 2 Trade Marks and Designs
July 2015 Exams two 2-hour exams in July
July 2015 End of year drinks
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Applications must include a degree certificate or academictranscripts (noting that the University reserves the right torequire the latter), a statement of purpose of up to 500 words,a current CV, details of three referees and at least tworeferences (professional and academic references areacceptable) and English test results (if applicable). Thestatement of purpose should detail your reasons for applyingfor the course, including your future career intentions and thecontribution you expect the Diploma to make to yourprofessional development. Applicants will not be penalised forwriting less than 500 words. Please indicate in your statementof purpose whether you would prefer to make your ownaccommodation arrangements for the residential programme.
Applications for admission to the 2014/15 Diploma are due by Friday 4 July 2014. Please note that late applications will beconsidered on a first come first served basis if there are stillplaces available.
For further information about the programme or making an application please visit the Diploma website atwww.law.ox.ac.uk/odip or contact the Diploma Administrator,Victoria Campbell, by email ([email protected])or phone (+44 (0)1865 271 457).
CostThe Diploma fee is 6,770 and covers: tuition; coursematerials; assessment and supervision; lunch andrefreshments during the residential programme and aformal College dinner at the start of the residentialprogramme. It does not cover accommodation.
Enrolments for the Diploma will be capped at 60. To beconsidered for admission, applicants will need to satisfythe following criteria:
1. Intellectual ability: A good undergraduate degree (at least 2:1) orequivalent will be required.
2. Professional experience:It is anticipated that candidates will be trainee or newlyqualified solicitors or barristers with a UK Law Firm orChambers embarking on a career in IP, although otherequivalent professional qualifications will be considered.
3. English language prociency:The programme will be taught in English, as a result ofwhich English language proficiency at the TOEFLstandard of 630 points (minimum test of written Englishscore if 5.0) or the IELTS standard of 7.5 points (minimum7.0 per component) will need to be shown by those forwhom English is not a first language.
Admissions procedure
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Students are strongly encouraged to stay at St CatherinesCollege during the residential programme. Successfulapplicants who do not opt-out of accommodation at thetime of applying will have accommodation at St Catherines arranged for them for the ten nights fromSunday to Thursday of Week 1 and Sunday to Thursday ofWeek 2 at a cost of 906 (including breakfast and dinner).Applicants may also request College accommodation forthe weekend in between, at an extra charge of 70 pernight (bed and breakfast only). Please indicate this in yourstatement of purpose.
Subject to availability, applications will be considered forattendance at the residential programme only. Residentialprogramme attendees are not examined and do notobtain any University qualification. The price of theresidential course alone is 3, 754. Further information,including the application form, is available atwww.law.ox.ac.uk/odip.
A cancellation fee of 150 will be charged on anycancelled booking.
Disclaimer: the brochure details are correct at the time ofgoing to press, June 2014. Any updates or changes toinformation can be found on our website www.law.ox.ac.uk.
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For further information about the programme,
please visit the Diploma website at
www.law.ox.ac.uk/odip or contact the Diploma
Administrator, Victoria Campbell, by email
([email protected]) or phone
(+44 (0)1865 271 457).
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