Programme Speakers
Mark Anderson
Mark is a solicitor and the principal of Anderson & Company, the Technology Law Practice TM. After qualifying as a barrister in 1983 he gained experience as an in-house lawyer and in the IP department of Bristows in London, until he formed Anderson & Company (solicitors) in 1994.
Anderson & Company's main areas of work include IP licensing, R&D collaborations and general commercial transactions. His regular clients include technology-based companies and several leading UK universities. Recent projects include:
- advising a consortium of UK universities on a bid to the MOD for a long-term management contract
- advising Imperial College Innovations Limited on a licensing agreement with a spin-out company, Thiakis Limited
- a large licensing transaction between a Canadian biotech company and a German company
- numerous clinical trials, manufacturing and CRO agreements
software licensing and distribution agreements for a large IT services company - web-hosting agreements for a computer games company
Mark and his colleagues have written several books on IP and commercial law subjects, including:
- 9 UNICO Practical Guides to University Commercialisation Agreements
- A-Z Guide to Boilerplate and Commercial Clauses (Tottel, 2006)
- Modern Law of Patents (chapter on transactions, Butterworths 2005)
- Execution of Documents (Law Society, 2005)
Drafting Confidentiality Agreements (second edition, Law Society, 2004) - Technology Transfer (second edition, Butterworths, 2003)
Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Contracts (Butterworths, 1998) - Several volumes of Butterworths' Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents
Mark is a member of the Law Society's Working Party on Intellectual Property and the Intellectual Property Lawyers Association.
