IP Bar Association Garden Party
Prof. Tanya Aplin I have been a fan of Professor Tanya Aplin for some time, originally because of her transformation of Gurry on Breach of Confidence and more recently because of her part in the Submission to the UK IPO on the issue of criminal sanctions for the deliberate copying of designs by Sir Robin Jacob and the Professors of IP law at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Bournemouth. Like Francis Gurry , the Director-General of the WIPO, she is an Australian which is almost a qualification in itself as the courts of that island continent are a laboratory for the development of the common law positively fizzing with bright ideas some good and others not so good. Professor Aplin was guest of honour at the Intellectual Property Bar Association garden party on Monday which I attended with Robert Griffiths QC , the IPBA's latest recruit, and our pupil Nicola Strachan . Before we could taste our pudding metaphorically speak...