Darren Smyth, MA, DPhil, CPA, EPA, FRSC, CChem, CSci

Profile

Teaching design law and professional ethics on the Intellectual Property Law Postgraduate Certificate, MSc Intellectual Property, and Trade Mark Law and Practice Postgraduate Certificate courses.

Darren is a patent attorney and partner in the firm EIP, where he is Head of Knowledge.  Before entering the patent profession his academic background was in chemistry, with his postgraduate study at the University of Oxford and post-doc at the Tokyo Institute of Technology focusing on synthetic organic chemistry.

Research

Research Interests:

Interests include patent law, design law, ethics, the Unified Patent Court, genetic resources and the Nagoya Protocol.

Publications

• The Doctrine of Equivalents in the UK Following Actavis v Lilly, Darren Smyth, Azadeh Vahdat, in Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law, Bosher, H. and Rosati, E. (Eds), Oxford University Press 2023.
• The protection of fashion design in Europe (in Japanese), Darren Smyth, AIPPI Japan Journal, Volume 68, No 4, April 2023, pages 26-36.
• The Design Corpus and Degree of Freedom of The Designer in European Design Law and Practice (in Japanese), Darren Smyth, AIPPI Japan Journal, Volume 67, No 1, January 2022, pages 22-30.
• UK system for registered and unregistered designs (in Japanese), Darren Smyth, AIPPI Japan Journal, Volume 66, No. 3, March 2021, page 19-24.
• The clinician impact and financial cost to the NHS of litigation over pregabalin: a cohort study in English primary care, Richard Croker, Darren Smyth, Alex Walker, Ben Goldacre, BMJ Open, 2018 Jun 7;8(6):e022416
• Pregabalin: what the patent litigation means for doctors and drug companies, Darren Smyth, Richard Croker and Ben Goldacre, BMJ, 2018; 361
• Novelty does not necessarily mirror infringement: product-by-process claims, Darren Smyth, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 10, Issue 5, 1 May 2015, Pages 318–319.
• Patent law decisions from Supreme Courts: how can non-specialist judges decide this field of law?, Darren Smyth, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 9, Issue 1, 1 January 2014, Pages 31–39.
• Routine rejection: Is the EPO's approach to antibody and polymorph claims correct, balanced and justified?, Stephen Ingham, Darren Smyth, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 February 2013, Pages 154–164.
• The Protection Conferred by Product-by-Process Claims; Grant, Gregor; Smyth, Darren, European Intellectual Property Review (2010), volume 32, issue 12, p. 635-643.