The Herchel Smith Intellectual Property PhD Scholarship Programme

IMPORTANT NOTE: a brief overview is provided below. Students MUST read the full details including application criteria, application process and eligibility before applying on the Queen Mary website

New PhD students undertaking full-time research in the area of Intellectual Property (IP) can apply for a Herchel Smith Scholarship to start in the 2013-14 academic year. The award covers three years of study while in full time enrolment, subject to satisfactory annual progress reports.
The award will cover all tuition fees whether at the Home/EU rate or non-Home/EU rate. In addition, an award of around £15,000 per year (reviewed annually) will be paid to the recipient on a monthly basis throughout the calendar year starting from September 2013.
 

What are Scholarship holders required to do?
Successful recipients of this award are not required to undertake any teaching or research assistant duties, but they are expected to participate in the Intellectual Property community at Queen Mary, University of London.
 

Who can apply?
The Herchel Smith PhD Scholarship Programme recognises and supports exceptional full-time students who show the potential to make an outstanding contribution to intellectual property law. This programme supports PhD students in intellectual property law and those working at the intersection of intellectual property law and other areas of sciences and humanities.

The research topic should focus on one of the following themes:
IPRs and public international law/private international law; IPRs and intangible cultural/scientific heritage; IPRs and human rights; Doctrine of functionality; The role of intellectual property law in promoting and regulating art; intersection of international trade and intellectual property law (e.g. Patents and Trade in Stem Cells; Trade Marks and Tobacco Plain Packaging); intellectual property transactions (e.g. Licensing of Broadcasting Rights for Premier League matches); interrelationship of TRIPS with regional and national Law (e.g. TRIPS and the European Patent Convention); philosophy of intellectual property; primary and secondary markets in IP; Art 102 TFEU applied to "double identity" TM cases; property rights in persona; enforcement of IP; exhaustion and licensing.

Deadline
 Monday 3 June 2013 and decisions will be made in the following month.

How to Apply

Read the Herchel Smith Awards Research Proposal Outline to find out what information you need to submit. There is not an application form, instead you will need to produce a two-page document (as described in the application advice document).

We will only consider applications from applicants who have also completed the application process for the law PhD programme and who have submitted all the required supporting documentation.

Full details:

www.law.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/herchelsmith/index.html

www.law.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/phd/apply/index.html