Patent Law and Policy

Susy Frankel is a Professor of Law and Director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law at Victoria University of Wellington. She is the President of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), the premier global association of academics who work on intellectual property related research and teaching. Since 2008 she has been Chair of the Copyright Tribunal (NZ). She is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of World Intellectual Property Law and the Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property and has been a visiting professor at universities around the world. She publishes and teaches across all areas of intellectual property law including patents, copyright, trade marks, international intellectual property and international trade law.

Prof. Dr. Jessica C Lai BSc, LLB Hons, MSc (VUW) and Dr iur. (University of Lucerne, Switzerland) is Professor of Commercial Law at Victoria University of Wellington, where she researches in intellectual property, especially patent law, the relationship between intellectual property law and Mātauranga Māori, and patents and gender. Jessica is the author of Indigenous Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property Rights (Springer, 2014) and Patent Law and Women (Routledge, 2022). Jessica is a New Zealand Royal Society Te Apārangi Rutherford Discovery Fellow. She has taught at multiple tertiary institutes, including the University of Geneva and University of Lucerne, Switzerland, Stockholm University, Sweden, and Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.