Peter Prescott (barrister)
Peter Richard Kyle Prescott
Anglo-Argentine barrister and was a Deputy High Court Judge of England and Wales, and a specialist on the law of copyright
.
He was educated at
Queen Mary College
.
He was
called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1970 and was made a bencher in 2001. As a Deputy High Court Judge, he has heard a variety of intellectual property cases, including CFPH LLC's Applications (2005),[1] which sought to bring the United Kingdom practice concerning patentable subject matter more into line with that of the European Patent Office
.
Prescott is regarded as one of the foremost authorities on copyright law in the United Kingdom. Laddie, Prescott and Vitoria - The Modern Law of copyright and Designs, a leading copyright text in the United Kingdom, bears his name alongside
Sir Hugh Laddie
and Mary Vitoria QC.
Notes
- ^ CFPH LLC's Applications [2005] EWHC 1589 (Patents) (21 July 2005)
References
- Who's Who, 2005
- Debrett's entry
   | This English law–related biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |