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Fellow and College Counsel, St Catherine's College
Research Fellow, Institute of European and Comparative Law
BA/LLB Hons (Melbourne), PhD (Melbourne), DipLATHE (Oxford)
Justine Pila came to Oxford in 2004 to take up her statutory posts of University Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law and Tutorial Fellow of St Catherine's College. She holds undergraduate degrees in Law and Arts and a PhD in Law from the University of Melbourne. Before writing her PhD she worked as an IP solicitor and Associate to the Chief Justice of the Australian Federal Court. She teaches IP law and theory on a number of graduate and undergraduate courses for the Faculty, and EU Law and Jurisprudence for St Catherine's. Her books include (as author) The Requirement for an Invention in Patent Law (OUP 2010) and European Intellectual Property Law (OUP 2016) and (as editor) The Europeanization of Intellectual Property Law (OUP 2013), Perspectives on the Unitary (EU) Patent System (Hart/Bloomsbury 2015) and The Jurisprudence of Lord Hoffmann (Hart/Bloomsbury 2015). She is currently writing a book on IP subject matter and co-editing the Oxford Handbook on Intellectual Property Law for publication by OUP.
Her most recent works are European Intellectual Property Law (OUP 2016) with PLC Torremans and "Copyright and Related Rights: Outlining a Case for a European Morality / Public Policy Exclusion" in PLC Torremans (ed), Copyright Law: A Handbook of Contemporary Research (EE 2016) forthcoming.
She also has a profile page on the St Catherine's College website.
Publications
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J Pila, 'Copyright and Related Rights: Outlining a Case for a European Morality / Public Policy Exclusion' in PLC Torremans (ed), Copyright Law: A Handbook of Contemporary Research (Edward Elgar 2016) (forthcoming) -
J Pila and PLC Torremans, European Intellectual Property Law (OUP 2016) -
J Pila, 'An Historical Perspective: The Unitary Patent Package' in J Pila & C Wadlow (ed), Perspectives on the Unitary (EU) Patent System (Hart Publishing 2015) -
J Pila, 'Lord Hoffmann and Purposive Interpretation in Intellectual Property Law' in (ed), Lord Hoffmann's Jurisprudence (Hart Publishing 2015) -
J Pila (ed), Lord Hoffmann's Jurisprudence: A Festschrift in Honour of Lord Leonard Hoffmann (Hart Publishing 2015) ISBN: 9781849465915J Pila (ed), Perspectives on the Unitary (EU) Patent System (Hart Publishing 2015) ISBN: 9781849466196J Pila, 'Isolated human genes: the patent equivalent of a non-copyrightable sound recording' (2014) Law Quarterly Review [Case Note] J Pila, 'Patent Eligibility and Scope Revisited in the Light of Schütz v. Werit, European Law and Copyright Jurisprudence' in R.C. Dreyfuss & J.C. Ginsburg (ed), Intellectual Property at the Edge: The Contested Contours of IP (Cambridge University Press 2014) J Pila, 'Pluralism, Principles and Proportionality in Intellectual Property 181-200' (2014) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies J Pila, 'A Constitutionalised Doctrine of Precedent and the Marleasing Principle as Bases for a European Legal Methodology' in A Ohly & J Pila (ed), The Europeanisation of Intellectual Property Law: Towards a European Legal Methodology (OUP 2013) J Pila, 'Intellectual Property Law as a Case Study in European Harmonisation: Methodological Themes and Context' in A Ohly & J Pila (ed), The Europeanisation of Intellectual Property Law: Towards a European Legal Methodology (OUP 2013) J Pila, 'Professional and Academic Employee Inventions: Looking Beyond the UK Paradigm' in M Pittard, A Monitti and J Duns (eds), Business Innovation: A Legal Balancing Act Perspectives from Intellectual Property, Labour and Employment, Competition and Corporate Laws (Edward Elgar 2013) J Pila, 'The European Patent: An Old and Vexing Problem' (2013) 62(4) International & Comparative Law Quarterly 917940 A Ohly and J Pila (eds), The Europeanisation of Intellectual Property Law: Towards a European Legal Methodology (Oxford University Press 2013) J Pila, 'What Patent Law for the European Union? Lessons from the Patent Jurisprudence of the CJEU / Quel Droit Des Brevets Pour L\'Union Europeenne? Les Enseignements De La Jurisprudence De La CJUE' in C. Geiger (ed), What Patent Law for the European Union? (Litec 2013) J Pila, 'Copyright and Internet Browsing' (2012) 128 Law Quarterly Review 204208 [Case Note] J Pila, 'Intellectual Property Rights and Detached Human Body Parts 2732' (2012) Journal of Medical Ethics J Pila, 'Sewing the Fly Buttons on the Statute: Employee Inventions and the Employment Context' (2012) 32 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 1-31 ISBN: 0143-6503J Pila, 'Some Reflections on Method and Policy in the Crowded House of European Patent Law and their Implications for India' (2012) 24 National Law School of India Review 5474 J Pila, 'The Star Wars Copyright Claim: An Ambivalent View of the Empire' (2012) 128 Law Quarterly Review 15-19 [Case Note] J Pila, 'Law and the Victorians: Intellectual Property' (2011) Journal of Legal History, forthcoming J Pila, 'Software Patents, Separation of Powers, and Failed Syllogisms: A Cornucopia from the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office' (2011) 70 Cambridge Law Journal 203-228 J Pila, 'The Future of the Requirement for an Invention: Inherent Patentability as a Pre- and Post-Patent Determinant' in G Ghidini & E Arezzo (ed), Biotechnology and Software Patent Law: A Comparative Review on New Developments (Edward Elgar 2011) J Pila, 'Academic Freedom and the Courts' (2010) 126 Law Quarterly Review 347Â351 [Case Note] J Pila, 'An Australian Copyright Revolution and its Relevance for UK Jurisprudence: IceTV in the light of Infopaq v Danske' (2010) 9 Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 77-93 J Pila, 'Copyright and its Categories of Original Works' (2010) 30 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 229Â254 ISBN: 0143-6503J Pila, 'On the European Requirement for an Invention' (2010) 41 IIC: International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 906-926 ISBN: 0018-9855J Pila, 'Patents for Genes and Methods of Analysis and Comparison' (2010) 126 Law Quarterly Review 534Â538 [Case Note] J Pila, The Requirement for an Invention in Patent Law (Oxford: OUP, 2010) ISBN: 978-0-19-929694-1J Pila, 'The Value of Authorship in the Digital Environment' in W H Dutton & P W Jeffreys (ed), World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities (The MIT Press 2010) J Pila, 'Who Owns the Intellectual Property Rights in Academic Work?' (2010) European Intellectual Property Review 609-613 J Pila, 'Article 53(b) EPC: A Challenge to the Novartis Theory of European Patent History' (2009) 72 Modern Law Review 436-462 ISBN: 0026-7961J Pila, 'Authorship and e-Science: Balancing Epistemological Trust and Skepticism in the Digital Environment' (2009) 23 Social Epistemology 1-24 J Pila, 'Chemical Product Patents and Biogen Insufficiency Before the House of Lords' (2009) 125 Law Quarterly Review 573-578 [Case Note] J Pila, 'Chemical Products and Proportionate Patents Before and After Generics v Lundbeck' (2009) 20 King's Law Journal 489-526 ISBN: 0961-5768J Pila, 'Recognition of distinction a clash of institutional and scholarly values?' (2009) Oxford Magazine J Pila, 'Works of Artistic Craftsmanship in the High Court of Australia: The Exception as Paradigm Copyright Work' (2009) 36 Federal Law Review 365-381 J Pila, 'An Intentional View of the Copyright Work' (2008) 71 Modern Law Review 535-558
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