Profile
Member of the European Parliament 1979-1994
Chairman of Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs Committee
Vice-Chairman of Legal Affairs Committee
Rapporteur of Trade Mark, Regulation and Directive
Spokesman on the European Parliament Research and Technology Committee: European policy on Industrial Research and Development; European Parliamentary Rapporteur on Japanese research, nuclear safety and Chernobyl and its aftermath, legal protection of computer programs, aeronautical policy, broadband telecommunications.
Reports for European Commission:
Future of Industrial Property Rights Legislation and Agreements applying in the European Union 1996
Trade Mark Directive Implementation 1997 & 1999
Views of industry on the Green Paper on the European Patent System 1998
Counterfeiting and Piracy 1999
Exhaustion of Trade Marks 1999
Insurance for Patent Litigation 2002
Specialist fields:
Industrial and Intellectual Property Law
European Law
Qualifications and Regulations
M.A. Oxford
Called to the Bar 1954
Queen's Counsel 1976