Brunel Law School is a diverse and vibrant community where you'll be supported in your studies and encouraged to develop your skills for your future career in intellectual property.
Studying at Brunel Law School brings with it the benefit from learning in a building dedicated to law, with excellent research facilities, allowing you to be surrounded by fellow, like-minded law students and academics who are focused on your education. Brunel's single-site campus in Uxbridge, West London is just a short drive from the M25, M4, and M40 motorways, 20 minutes from Heathrow airport, and a 40-minute tube ride from central London - perfect if you're travelling in from your work.
Our intellectual property programmes are taught by a team of prolific academics and industry experts with a strong reputation specialising in the area of intellectual property.
Intellectual property law activities for students
The intellectual property team put together an exciting programme of extra circular activities for the students, which include things such as:
Read the highlights of our most recent intellectual property event held within the Brunel Law School.
Our IP courses are taught by the following experts:
Dr Peter Petkoff - Senior Law Lecturer, Brunel Law School
Dr Peter Petkoff is Convenor for the PgCert in Intellectual Property and convenor of Managing IP and Trade Marks and Allied Rights modules. He is also Director of the Religion, Law and International Relations Programme, a collaborative international research network at Regent's Park College, Oxford, and Managing Editor of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion.
Peter is involved in cutting edge research on the relationship between religion and politics and law and religion.
Dr Olga Grigula - Lecturer in IP Law, Brunel Law School
Olga Grigula is a lecturer and a course convenor for the Patent law and Practice module, as well as contributes to other modules related to intellectual property and contract law.
Olga holds a Visiting Fellow position at the Oxford Martin School, the University of Oxford. She is part of the Oxford Martin Programme on Affordable Medicines, working on the ‘open innovation in drug development’ project that is aimed at facilitating the accessibility and affordability of medicines.
Dr Hayleigh Bosher - Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, Brunel University London
Hayleigh convenes the Copyright and Industrial Design module. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Intellectual Property, Policy and Management, writer and Book Review Editor for the specialist IP blog IPKat, Deputy Editor of the European Trade Mark Reports, founder of the World IP Women (WIPW) network and an Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law consultant.
Hayleigh holds a PhD in Copyright Law from Bournemouth University, under the Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship Award. She also has completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice and accepted as a Fellow of the Higher Edcation Academy.
Dr Paula Westenberger - Lecturer in Intellectual property, Brunel University London
Paulaisalso an Assistant Editor for the European Copyright and Design Reports (ECDR). She covers the syllabus on English Law Fundamentals for IP Practitioners.
Paula joined Brunel in 2018, having previously held positions at Queen Mary University of London and Buckinghamshire New University. She holds a PhD from Queen Mary University of London, under the Centre for Commercial Law Studies Scholarship Award.
Our intellectual programmes
The Brunel Intellectual Property Law LLM is designed for graduates wishing to gain specialist knowledge in the fast-growing discipline of intellectual property law.
Our programme, one of the most comprehensive of its kind in the UK, will give you a solid grounding in the fundamentals of intellectual property and the opportunity to develop specialised skills through our wide range of elective modules covering both policy and practical technology-related issues.
The Brunel Intellectual Property Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) is a unique, part-time programme with two separate routes designed for trainee patent attorneys with STEM degrees or for trainee trade mark attorneys. It is also suitable for people wishing to pursue a more general career in intellectual property law and practice.
The PgCert is accredited with IPREG and provides two separate routes of Foundation Level Qualification (Patents) and a Foundation Level Qualification (Trade Marks). Candidates may undertake either one or the other as part of the PgCert programme or combine the two FLQs in Patents and Trade Marks as part of an LLM in Intellectual Property.
In addition, Intellectual Property PgCert alumni have the option to upgrade to an LLM in Intellectual Property should they choose to re-enrol as returning students within the first five years after their graduation from Brunel.
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