Programme Speakers
Ian Craig
Ian Craig is Head of the Intellectual Property Group of Dorsey & Whitney London Office .
Since 1982 Ian has specialised in intellectual property law. His practice has been in both the contentious and non-contentious side of all intellectual property matters ranging from heavy weight bio-tech patent disputes to general advice on the protection by spin-out companies of their intellectual property. For 22 years Ian was based at a Cambridge firm where he dealt with a large number of start-up companies coming out of not only Cambridge University but other universities and obtained expertise in advising such start-ups, not only in relation to their agreements with the university but also with customers and consultants.
Ian has operated in a number of different technical fields from bio-technology and software to film production.
Ian has written widely upon the topic of intellectual property, and feels passionately about the need for companies to understand their intellectual property rights and how to manipulate them themselves. To this end he has lectured, and continues to lecture, at Cambridge University in patents and copyright and at Anglian Polytechnic University where he lectures not to the lawyers but to the engineers and computer scientists on the subject.
