The continued role of EU law in the development of intellectual property in the United Kingdom

Abstract

The law of the United Kingdom was tied to that in the European Union for near fifty years, and no area was more tightly bound to the EU than intellectual property.  This paper will explore how EU law whether created before or after the UK left the EU has continued, and will continue, to shape the development of domestic intellectual property. It will look at how the court have approached departing from assimilated law, how they have applied post-2021 case law and, crucially, how the general implementation in section 29 of the European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020 might become much more significant with the passage of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023.

About the speaker

Phillip Johnson is a Professor of Law and the Vice Dean of Research, King's College London. He worked as a government lawyer advising the Intellectual Property Office implementing various Directives and Treaties into UK law from 2003-7, and he has been an Appointed Person hearing appeals from the IPO since 2015. He also at the intellectual property bar where he practises from Hogarth Chambers. 

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