We have a meeting of the BPP Legal Awareness Society tomorrow evening at 6.15 pm (until 7.15 pm) in room 2.6, BPP Law School, Red Lion Street, Holborn, London.

Any current, past or future student of BPP may attend. You may be studying any discipline, and we as a society actively encourage students from any discipline, from any site, to attend. Please however be mindful that you will be asked for ID by security should you attend, and members of reception are not able to recognise you immediately.

The aim of this meeting is to look behind the purposive nature of the law of patents in the English courts, and to look at how the recent Apple/Samsung dispute was decided in the High Court (judgment delivered 18/19 June 2012). This will require a discussion of how patent claims are looked at general. Because of the nature of society, we will be considering carefully the commercial strategy of Apple and Samsung internationally in achieving competitive advantage, but paying attention why they might have sought to pursue civil litigation for this.

As such, you may find this meeting particularly interesting if you are studying the commercial law and intellectual property special elective on the Legal Practice Course at BPP. It may also be useful if you are wishing to demonstrate the competence of ‘commercial awareness’ in your training contract interview this summer. Deadlines are during this month, usually culminating on midnight of 31 July (i.e. prior to 0.01 1 August 2012).

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