UCL IBIL | Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture 2012: The Growing Imperative to Internationalise the Law

The Chief Judge of perhaps the most important patent court in the world, Chief Judge Randall Rader, provides key insights into the increasing forces for international harmonisation of intellectual property (and particularly patent) law.
The recent American Invents Act, whereby the USA moved away from the first-to-invent system to a first-to-file, but with a grace period system, is likely to provide a huge further impetus towards harmonisation across the world.
Similarly the case law of one country increasingly affects the law in other countries.
Speaker: Chief Judge Randall Rader (US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit)
Chair: The Rt Hon Prof. Sir Robin Jacob
This lecture took place on Wednesday 27 June 2012.