Online PhD in Intellectual Property Law (Online Doctor of Philosophy in Intellectual Property Law)

ONLINE PHD IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
LAW

New PhD applicants undertaking full-time
research in the area of Intellectual Property (IP) can apply for the Herchel
Smith Scholarship to start in the 2022-23 academic year. The award covers three
years of study while in full-time enrolment, subject to satisfactory
annual progress reports.

The award will cover all the tuition fees
whether at the Home rate or the International rate. It is therefore open to
both the UK and International applicants. In addition, an award of around
£17,000 per year (reviewed annually) will be paid to the recipient on the
regular basis throughout the academic year starting from September 2022.

What are Scholarships holders required to
do?

Successful recipients of this award will
undertake research support work and any related tasks as required, of up
to 6 hours per week for the duration of their studies, for the Queen Mary
Intellectual Property law Research Institutes (QMIPRI).

Who can apply?

The Herchel Smith PhD Scholarship Programme
recognizes and supports exceptional full-time students who show the
potential to make outstanding contributions to the area of intellectual
property law. This program supports PhD applicants in intellectual
property law and those working at the intersection of intellectual property law
and other areas of the sciences and humanities.

The award is for new students who will enroll
at the start of the coming academic year, in September 2022. Therefore, current
PhD candidates who enrolled prior to September 2022 are not eligible to apply
for the award.

Also, students should note that our PhD
program only has one entry point each year – in September. Most LLM courses
in the UK end with graduation in November. Entry into our PhD program is
dependent upon your obtaining a certain grade on your LLM so as to meet our
academic entry requirements. This means for students currently taking their LLM
in the UK (but not at Queen Mary) where the date of graduation falls after
September 2022, and or for International applicants requiring the UK student
visa who are currently taking an LLM in the UK, then an application this year
is not possible. 

The Research Topic Should Focus On One of the Following Themes:

IPRs and public international law or private
international law; IPRs and intangible cultural or scientific heritage; IPRs
and human rights; Doctrine of functionality; The role of the intellectual
property law in promoting and regulating art; the intersection of the international
trade and intellectual property law (e.g. Patents and Trade in Stem Cells;
Trade Marks and The Tobacco Plain Packaging); intellectual property
transactions (e.g. Licensing of the Broadcasting Rights for Premier League
matches); interrelationship of TRIPS with the regional and national Law (e.g.
TRIPS and the European Patent Convention); philosophy of intellectual property;
primary and secondary markets in the IP; Art 102 TFEU applied to “double
identity” TM cases; property rights in persona; enforcement of the IP;
exhaustion and licensing.

TOP UNIVERSITIES-

• Santa Clara University
• University Of
  California Davis (UC Davis) School of Law
• Maurice A. Deane
  School of Law at Hofstra University