About the Author

• Author: David Vaver
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Vaver, MA (Oxon.), BA, LLB (Auck.), JD (Chicago), was appointed

Professor of Intellectual Property law at Osgoode Hall Law School of

York University, Toronto, in 2009 and is a board member of IP Osgoode.

He is the Emeritus Reuters Professor of Intellectual Property and Infor-

mation Technology Law in the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow

of St. Peter’s College, and the former director of the Oxford Intellectual

Property Research Centre. He has researched and taught intellectual

property law for forty years, previously at Osgoode, the University of

British Columbia, and the University of Auckland.

Professor Vaver founded the Intellectual Property Journal which he

currently also edits, and is associated with the Chambers of Michael

Silverleaf QC, 11 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London. Professor Vaver

has written extensively on national and intellectual property law and

policy, and his work is frequently cited by courts and legal writers. He

was the author of the f‌irst edition of this work and of Copyright Law

(2000), both in Irwin Law’s Essentials of Canadian Law Series, a co-

editor (with Marcel Boyer & Michael Trebilcock) of Competition Policy

and Intellectual Property (Irwin Law, 2009), and editor of a f‌ive-volume

collection of writings, Intellectual Property Rights: Critical Concepts in

Law (Routledge, 2006).

To mark his retirement from the University of Oxford, Professor

Vaver was presented in 2010 with a Festschrift edited by Catherine Ng,

Lionel Bently, and Giuseppina D’Agostino, The Common Law of Intellec-

tual Property: Essays in Honour of Professor David Vaver (Hart Publish-

ing, 2010).