[3] He read Natural Sciences (physics) at Trinity College, Cambridge (1960-1963) and law at the London School of Economics (1963-1967).
[7] The position he held before includes member of the Scientific and Advisory Board of the European Patent Office and the European Commission’s Expert Group on the development and implications of patent law in the field of biotechnology and genetic engineering.
[9] He retired from the Court of Appeal in March 2011 (acknowledged in a valedictory address[10] before a court-room packed with well-wishers) to take up his current position as the Sir Hugh Laddie Chair in Intellectual Property Law at the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law (IBIL), University College London.
When validity is challenged, the patentee says his patent is very small: the cat with its fur smoothed down, cuddly and sleepy.
But when the patentee goes on the attack, the fur bristles, the cat is twice the size with teeth bared and eyes ablaze.