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"About the editors" [2017] ELECD 799; in Matthews, Duncan; Zech, Herbert (eds), "Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and the Life Sciences" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) viii

Book Title: Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and the Life Sciences

Editor(s): Matthews, Duncan; Zech, Herbert

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783479443

Section Title: About the editors

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

About the editors


Duncan Matthews is Professor of Intellectual Property Law in the Centre for Commercial
Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. He holds Masters degrees from the
University of Warwick and the University of Exeter, and a PhD from the London
School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has acted as an advisor to: the
Directorate General Trade of the European Commission; the ECAP II EC-ASEAN
Intellectual Property Rights Co-operation Programme; the American Association for
the Advancement of Science (AAAS); the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP); the European Parliament Committee on International Trade; the European
Patent Office (EPO); the UK Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy
(SABIP); the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) Expert Advisory Group on Trade and
Development, and IPKey (the strategic partnership and cooperation between the EU and
China on IP, implemented by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
in cooperation with the EPO).
He is Academic Director for the EPO European Qualifying Examination (EQE) training
programme and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China
(SIPO) training programme, both at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author
of Globalising Intellectual Property Rights: The TRIPS Agreement (Routledge, 2002) and
Intellectual Property, Human Rights and Development (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011).

Herbert Zech studied law at the Universities of Erlangen and Munich and obtained his
doctorate at the University of Constance. He also holds a degree in Biology (Dipl.-Biol.)
from Kaiserslautern University of Technology. Since ...