Online PhD in Intellectual Property Law Admission 2024-25, Check Marking Scheme, Sports, Exams

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.

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