Intellectual Property Engagement Research Centre
IPERC is a leading research centre of The City Law School hosting national and international research funding, organising regular events and seminars and hosting doctoral and postdoctoral scholars.
Academic staff
Prof Enrico Bonadio
Professor of Intellectual Property Law
Prof Enrico Bonadio teaches, researches and advises across the full spectrum of intellectual property (IP) law, with a particular interest in how IP responds to technological changes and to non‑conventional creative practices such as street art, music borrowing and gastronomy. His work combines doctrinal analysis, empirical inquiry and sustained engagement with creative communities, policymakers and international organisations.
Dr Marc Mimler
Senior Lecturer in Law
Dr Marc Mimlers’s research interests cover intellectual property law in general, with its interfaces with human rights and international trade law, information technology law and competition law. Marc has a particular interest in exceptions to intellectual property rights from a doctrinal and practical perspective and is currently developing a monograph on this issue with Edward Elgar.
Prof Patrick Goold
Professor of Law
Prof Patrick Goold teaches and writes about intellectual property, private law, jurisprudence, and legal pedagogy.
Patrick Masiyakurima
Senior Lecturer in Law (Education and Research)
Patrick Masiyakurima's primary research interests lie in intellectual property law. Within that broad area, he has focused on various aspects of copyright law including compulsory licensing, the term of protection, authors' moral rights, the idea/expression dichotomy, works of artistic craftsmanship, unpublished works and the defences to infringement.
Dr Despoina Farmaki
Lecturer in Law
Dr Despoina Farmaki's research focuses on the intersection between Intellectual Property and Technology, with a particular focus on the video game industry. She has published in prominent journals, including the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, the Interactive Entertainment Law Review, the Journal of AI Law and Regulation, and the Esports Yearbook. She is a qualified lawyer in Greece.
PhD Students
- Jose Camarena
- Alexandra Baumann
- Rokshana Shirin
- Cheryl Dine
Past PhD Students
- Plamen Dinev
- Diana Filatova