Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute

Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (QMIPRI) is a focused research organisation within the Centre for Commercial Law Studies

Centre for Commercial Law Studies

The Centre for Commercial Law Studies is part of the School of Law of Queen Mary, University of London. Established in 1980 by Sir Roy Goode, its mission is to develop a body of knowledge and skills in the areas of commercial law —- arbitration, intellectual property, taxation, financial law,...

(CCLS) in the School of Law at Queen Mary, University of London

Queen Mary, University of London

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. In 2002, it moved from Mile End

Mile End

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in the East End of London

East End of London

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to larger and specialised facilities at Charterhouse Square

London Charterhouse

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, as part of its growing independent identity and a substantial bequest by Herchel Smith

Herchel Smith

Herchel Smith was an Anglo-American organic chemist. His discoveries include the key inventions underlying oral and injectable contraceptives. In later life, he was a major benefactor to university science....

. In May 2007 the CCLS moved to 67-69 Lincoln's Inn Fields

Lincoln's Inn Fields

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QMIPRI offers postgraduate education by way of Certificate and Masters programmes to train future trade mark attorneys and patent attorney

Patent attorney

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s in English

English language

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and European IP Law, while also contributing individual courses to the Queen Mary University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

LLM programme.

QMIPRI provides commercial training, hosts various lectures and conferences, and engages in interdisciplinary and interinstitutional collaboration towards broader and diverse work in intellectual property law and policy. Such work includes QMIPRI's participation in the European Intellectual Property Institutes Network

European Intellectual Property Institutes Network

The European Intellectual Property Institutes Network is a cooperation network of intellectual property institutions, organizing conferences. It was founded in 1999. Its aim is "to facilitate and increase cooperation among IP institutions and students in Europe"...

(EIPIN). QMIPRI is one of the founding members of EIPIN, which links a number of European IP institutions into a series of yearly rotating training sessions for current students of the institutions.

QMIPRI and its members have directed a number of internationally-funded research and training projects around the world, including IP-NGOs and patentingLIVES.

QMIPRI's directors are Michael Blakeney

Michael Blakeney

Professor Michael L. Blakeney, British and Australian, is a Co-Director of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, at Queen Mary, University of London. He is also a Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law. His main areas of research are: traditional knowledge, access...

and Johanna Gibson

Johanna Gibson

Johanna Gibson is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, where she is also Director of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute...

See also