Copyright and Civil Enforcement
About this project


Lead investigator(s):
– Ms Jane Cornwell
– Ms Jane Cornwell
Contributor(s):
– Mr Andrew Black
– Mr Andrew Black
Start Date: 1st October 2013
End Date: 30th June 2016
Summary
Analysis of the profile of copyright civil enforcement activity within certain specific sectors in the UK using mixed empirical methods, combining a literature review followed by initial survey questionnaire with more in-depth follow-up interview-based work building on the results of the survey exercise.
Project outputs include:
- J. Cornwell, ‘Intellectual Property Litigation at the Court of Session: A First Empirical Investigation‘, The Edinburgh Law Review 21.2 (2017): 192-216
- J. Cornwell, ‘Between the formal and the informal: ‘repeat players’, ‘one-shotters’ and case trajectories in intellectual property infringement litigation at the Scottish Court of Session’, Civil Justice Quarterly (2017)
- J. Cornwell, ‘Empirical consideration of enforcement action’ in C Waelde and A Brown (eds) Research Handbook on IP and the Creative Industries (Edward Elgar, forthcoming, 2017) (in press)
- J. Cornwell, ‘Intellectual property litigation at the Court of Session: findings from a new research project’, Journal of the Law Society of Scotland (September 2017, forthcoming) (in press)
- J. Cornwell, ‘Between the formal and the informal: enforcing IP rights – an empirical investigation’, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Lancaster, 2016. (Conference paper)
- J.Cornwell, ‘IP litigation at the Court of Session’, Burness Paull LLP, IP & Tech Conference, May 2017 (Conference paper)
- J. Cornwell, ‘Scottish IP and copyright litigation’, CREATe consortium litigation workshop workshop, Queen Mary University of London, 2016 (Conference presentation)