Jonathan Cornthwaite - Wedlake Bell

Thursday 27th October 2005
Media, Entertainment & Intellectual Property Law

Jonathan Cornthwaite is the head of Information Technology Law, Intellectual Property Law and E-commerce law at Wedlake Bell, where he has been a partner since 1988. He is also the head of E-commerce law in TELFA, the pan-European legal alliance of which Wedlake Bell is a founder member.

Jonathan has specialised in IT/IP law since qualifying as a solicitor in 1979. He advises a wide range of business clients in the UK and overseas on IT and IP legal issues, both contentious and non-contentious, and his practice also covers UK and EU competition law. He has published and spoken extensively on IT and IP subjects. His contributions to publications include articles published in the In Focus supplements of Intellectual Property Newsletter and regularly monthly articles published in Corporate Briefing for which he is the IP columnist. He is also the editor and co-author of Marketing Law that Matters published by Financial Times/Pitmans, and the author of The Internet and Intellectual Property (now in its second edition) published by Monitor Press Limited. He lectures frequently at conferences and seminars in the UK and abroad on IP/IT and competition law issues: for example, he represented the United Kingdom at the First European Conference on Law and Telecommunications in Rome in September 2003, and lectured on EU mobile telephone law at the MOST (Mobile Open Society through Wireless Telecommunications) Summit in Bucharest in October 2004. His legal directory entries include Chambers (where his citations include "Leading Individual"), The Legal 500 Who's Who (where he is profiled), Managing Intellectual Property's IP Contacts Handbook and Legal Experts (published by Legalease) where he is profiled.

He is a member of the Society for Computers and Law, The Intellectual Property Lawyers' Organisation, the Licensing Executives' Society, the Solicitors' European Group, the Competition Law Society and the British-Spanish Law Association, and serves as one of the Honorary Secretaries of the City of Westminster and Holborn Law Society.

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