Christopher Stothers is an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the London office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy LLP. His practice is focused on intellectual property, especially patent litigation and trade mark, copyright and design litigation, pharmaceutical regulation, European Union law and antitrust law.
He is an arbitral panelist for .eu domain name disputes at the Czech Arbitration Court, a committee member of the Competition Law Association and on the editorial board of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice. He also teaches intellectual property law to undergraduate and postgraduate law students at University College London.
His practitioner textbook "Parallel Trade in Europe: Intellectual Property, Competition and Regulatory Law" was published by Hart Publishing in April 2007. He has also published numerous articles in the European Intellectual Property Review and the European Competition Law Review and has contributed chapters to books on intellectual property, antitrust and European Union law. He is a regular conference speaker and has spoken recently at the Fordham International Intellectual Property Conference and to the Licensing Executives Society, the Practising Law Institute and the British Institute for International and Comparative Law.
Mr. Stothers is a solicitor qualified in England and Wales. He received his B.A. in Law from Downing College, Cambridge in 1998 and his B.C.L. in International and Comparative Law from Brasenose College, Oxford in 2000, both with first class honours. Before joining Milbank he worked for the international law firm Linklaters in London, including time spent in the Linklaters office in Bratislava, Slovakia and on secondment to the European Commission in Brussels, and for the niche intellectual property law firm Willoughby & Partners in London. |