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Duncan Matthews BSc (Hons), MA (Warwick), LLM (Exeter)
Duncan Matthews is Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law. He has held academic positions as a lecturer in law at the University of Warwick and as a research fellow at the ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, also at the University of Warwick. He has worked as a researcher at a policy think-tank (the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, London) and as an EU lobbyist. He has acted as a consultant to: Directorate General Trade of the European Commission; the ECAP II EC-ASEAN Intellectual Property Rights Co-operation Programme; and the Science and Intellectual Property in the Public Interest Program (SIPPI) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a member of working groups of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents (CIPA) and the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (ITMA), examining the future of education for the professions, and is also working with the Centre for the Management of Intellectual Property in Health Research and Development (MIHR) on a best practice manual for developing countries.
Research Interests
Duncan Matthews holds an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) research grant, as part of the Non-Governmental Public Action Research Programme, on NGOs, Intellectual Property Rights and Multilateral Institutions.Previously, he held a research grant funded by the ESRC, the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Intellectual Property Institute (IPI) to examine the determinants of intellectual property management in UK companies. His research interests also include: the TRIPS Agreement and access to medicines; patents for pharmaceuticals; technical assistance and TRIPS flexibilities; free trade agreements and intellectual property rights; the WIPO Development Agenda; and the global politics of intellectual property.
Publications Since 2001
Bilateral Technical Assistance and TRIPS: the United States, Japan and the European Communities in Comparative Perspective (Co-author with V. Munoz-Tellez) [2006] 9(6) Journal of World Intellectual Property 629-653, ISSN: 1422-2213 [URL]
From the August 30, 2003 WTO Decision to the December 6, 2005 Agreemement on an Amendment to TRIPS: Improving Access to Medicines in Developing Countries? [2006] 10 Intellectual Property Quarterly 91-130, ISSN: 1364-906X [URL]
TRIPS Flexibilities and Access to Medicines in Developing Countries: The Problem with Technical Assistance and Free Trade Agreements [2005] 27(11) European Intellectual Property Review 420-427, ISSN: 0142-0461 [URL]
Is History Repeating Itself? The Outcome of Negotiations on Access to Medicines, the HIV/AIDS Pandemic and Intellectual Property Rights in the World Trade Organisation [2004] 1 Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal (LGD), ISSN: 1467-0437 [URL]
The WTO Decision on Implementation of Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPs Agreement and Public Health: A Solution to the Access to Essential Medicines Problem? [2004] 7(1) Journal of International Economic Law 73-107, ISSN: 1369-3034 [URL]
A Strategic Approach to Managing Intellectual Property (Co-author with J. Pickering and J. Kirkland) in R. Blackburn (Editor), Intellectual Property and Innovation Management in Small Firms, London: Routledge, 2003, 35-54, ISBN: 0415228840 [URL]
Globalising Intellectual Property Rights: The TRIPs Agreement, London: Routledge, 2002, 216, ISBN: 041522327X [URL]
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights: Will the Uruguay Round Consensus Hold?, Coventry: Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation Working Paper No. 99/02, 2002 [URL]
Other Selected Publications
The Effectiveness of European Union Environmental Policy (Co-author with W. Grant and P. Newell), Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000, 248, ISBN: 0333730666 [URL]
