Biography: Patents

Trevor Cook joined Bird & Bird in 1974 with a degree in chemistry from Southampton University. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1977, joining the intellectual property department of Bird & Bird, where since 1981 he has been a partner. He is president of the UK group of the AIPPI (The International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property), secretary to the British Copyright Council standing committee on copyright and technology, and a member of the Council of the Intellectual Property Institute. Trevor is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) arbitration and mediation center's list of arbitrators. He is also currently a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics' working party on emerging biotechnologies. In addition to his practice in patent and other intellectual property litigation and advice Trevor is active in the area of life sciences administrative law, having handled many of the leading pharmaceuticals regulatory law cases heard by the European Court of Justice.

In addition to numerous articles Trevor has authored the following books, EU Intellectual Property Law (Oxford University Press, 2010), Pharmaceuticals Biotechnology and the Law (Macmillan 1991, LexisNexis Butterworths, 2009), A User's Guide to Patents (Butterworths 2002, Tottel, 2007), A European Perspective as to the Extent to Which Experimental Use, and Certain Other, Defences to Patent Infringement, Apply to Differing Types of Research (Intellectual Property Institute 2006) and The Protection of Regulatory Data in the Pharmaceutical and Other Sectors (Sweet & Maxwell, 2000). He has co-authored (with Alejandro Garcia) International Intellectual Property Arbitration (Kluwer Law International, 2010), (with Audrey Horton) Practical Intellectual Property Precedents (Sweet & Maxwell, 1998 to date) and (with Lorna Brazell) The Copyright Directive (Jordans, 2004). He is one of the general editors of The Modern Law of Patents (LexisNexis Butterworths 2005, 2010). He contributes to the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents European Patents Handbook (Sweet & Maxwell) and to Vaughan & Robertson's Law of the European Union (Oxford University Press). He also contributed to both editions of Information Technology and the Law (Macmillan 1986, 1990), to Database Law (Jordans 1998), and to recent editions of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents Guide to the Patents Act 1977 (Sweet & Maxwell 1990, 1995, 2001, 2009).

Biography: Life Sciences

Trevor Cook joined Bird & Bird in 1974 with a degree in chemistry from Southampton University. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1977, joining the intellectual property department of Bird & Bird, where since 1981 he has been a partner. He is president of the UK group of the AIPPI (The International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property), secretary to the British Copyright Council standing committee on copyright and technology and a member of the Council of the Intellectual Property Institute.

In addition to numerous articles Trevor has authored the following books: EU Intellectual Property Law (Oxford University Press 2010), Pharmaceuticals Biotechnology and the Law (Macmillan 1991, LexisNexis Butterworths 2009), A User's Guide to Patents (Butterworths 2002, Tottel 2007), A European Perspective as to the Extent to Which Experimental Use, and Certain Other, Defences to Patent Infringement, Apply to Differing Types of Research (Intellectual Property Institute 2006) and The Protection of Regulatory Data in the Pharmaceutical and Other Sectors (Sweet & Maxwell 2000). Having had experience as an arbitrator he has co-authored International Intellectual Property Arbitration (Wolters Kluwer 2010) with Alejandro Garcia. He also coauthors Practical Intellectual Property Precedents (Sweet & Maxwell 1998 to date) with Audrey Horton. He is one of the general editors of The Modern Law of Patents (LexisNexis Butterworths 2005, 2010). He contributes to the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents European Patents Handbook (Sweet & Maxwell) and to Vaughan & Robertson's Law of the European Union (Oxford University Press). He also contributed to the third, fourth and sixth editions of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents Guide to the Patents Act 1977 (Sweet & Maxwell 1990, 1995, 2009).

Trevor is ranked as "star individual", the only one in this category, in legal directory Chambers UK 2011 for his IP & patent litigation work in the life sciences sector and Chambers have commented that Trevor has long been known as a leader in IP in the UK and internationally.

Other Practice Areas

Trevor Cook also features in the following practice areas:

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