Caroline Wilson

Position:

Academic Staff

Caroline Wilson


Research interests

Her research interests are in Intellectual Property law and Information Technology law, particularly patent law and the regulation of Internet domain names.


Biographical notes

LLB (Hons) (London) 1994; LLM (London) 1995. Research Officer, National Institute of Economic & Social Research 1996-1998. Part-time Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary College, University of London 1997-2001. Field Fisher Waterhouse Fellow in Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute 2000-2001. Baker & McKenzie Lecturer in IP Law, Southampton 2001-present.

Publications

Contributing editor for 'Domain Names, Global Practice and Procedure.' (Sweet & Maxwell). Contributing editor for 'Trade Marks, Trade Names and Unfair Competition, Global Law & Practice.' (Sweet & Maxwell)

  • Selected academic and practitioner:
  • Wilson, C. “Internationalised Domain Names: Problems and Opportunities.” [2004] CTLR 174 - 181
  • Co-editor for, Domain Names, Global Practice & Procedure. (Sweet & Maxwell practitioner loose-leaf publication). Also contributing editor of the associated on-line monthly bulletin 2000-2005.
  • Contributing editor for, Trade Marks, Trade Names and Unfair Competition, Global Law & Practice. (Sweet & Maxwell practitioner loose-leaf publication). 2000-2003.
  • Contributor to Chapter Two of Saxby, S. (ed) Encyclopedia of IT Law. (Sweet & Maxwell loose-leaf publication) 2001-2004.

Research Projects

  • Co-author of a recent report on online dispute resolution (ODR) for the European Parliament. Currently completing two research projects, one on academic copyright issues and the other on comparative standards of inventive step in patent law.

Recent conference papers

  • Wilson, C and Onishi, O,“The online persona: Hikikomori, avatars and Japanese intellectual property law” (BILETA April 17, 2007).
  • Wilson, C. “Patent Law Reform: Rethinking Inventive Step” Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) conference (September 6-7, 2006. Keele).
  • Wilson, C. “Online and Offline Identity: Introducing the Janus Hypothesis.” GikII Workshop, VIth World Computer Law World Conference, September 4-8, 2006 Edinburgh.
  • Wilson, C. (2006) ‘Not such a cheap shop window: IP problems arising from Internet Advertising’ in BILETA conference (April 6-7, 2006. Malta).
  • Wilson, C. “The Domain Name WHO-IS debate: the privacy concerns of domain name registrants and spam recipients.” AHRC Privacy Workshop (Edinburgh. September 2005).