About the authors

Professor Duncan Matthews holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is Director of Research at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, and Honorary Member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA). He has acted as an advisor to the European Patent Office (EPO), the European Commission, the European Parliament, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Health Organization (WHO). He is the author of Globalising Intellectual Property Rights: The TRIPS Agreement (Routledge, 2002); Intellectual Property, Human Rights and Development (Edward Elgar, 2011); and is co-editor the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and the Life Sciences (Edward Elgar, 2017) and European Patent Law: The Unified Patent Court and the European Patent Convention (De Gruyter, 2023).

Dr Maciej Padamczyk holds a PhD from Queen Mary University of London. He is a Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Liverpool. His work has contributed to several high-impact policy projects, including the Ukrainian IP Court project at Queen Mary, where he conducted a comparative study of leading intellectual property jurisdictions. In addition to issues relating to international IP adjudication and judicial design, his research focuses on the intersection of patents, life sciences, and emerging technologies. He has published on a range of patent law topics, including judicial specialization, claim construction and patent injunctions, in leading intellectual property law journals and edited collections.