Jonathan Cornthwaite
Wedlake Bell

Thursday 30th October 2008
Media, Entertainment & Intellectual Property Law

Jonathan Cornthwaite specialises in Intellectual Property Law, Information Technology Law and E-commerce law at Wedlake Bell, where he has been a partner since 1988. Wedlake Bell is an English law firm based in London with a leading corporate and commercial practice. 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 IP/IT 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. Jonathan has published and spoken extensively on IP and IT subjects. His contributions to publications include articles published in the In Focus supplements of Intellectual Property Newsletter and regular monthly articles published in Corporate Briefing, for which he is the IP columnist. He is 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 has also contributed the UK chapter on intellectual property licences to the global encyclopaedia entitled "International Licensing" published by BNA International Inc. Jonathan 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, lectured on EU mobile telephone law at the MOST (Mobile Open Society through Wireless Telecommunications) Summit in Bucharest in October 2004, and lectured on digital signatures law at the Italian Legal Association seminar in October 2005. 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.

Jonathan is a member of the Intellectual Property Lawyers' Organisation, the Society for Computers and Law, the Federation against Software Theft Legal Advisory Group, 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, of which he is a director.

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