tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post812857470223938978..comments2024-03-29T09:21:58.696+00:00Comments on The IPKat: In memoriam: William (Bill) Cornish (1937 - 2022)Verónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-63946124529570105582022-01-11T00:42:54.634+00:002022-01-11T00:42:54.634+00:00So very sad to read this. Bill taught me IP at LSE...So very sad to read this. Bill taught me IP at LSE in 1980. His indeed truly 'magisterial book' was released during the course. That book was I think the first to deal with all the causes of action that now comprise intellectual property in a single volume anywhere in the Anglo Commonwealth (not sure if anybody did in earlier in Europe or the US). There was no wasted verbiage and an immediate grasp of the big issues such as the tendency in IP to proliferate detail like tax law, on recurrent themes. He brought his legal history background to bear in a decisive manner. He visited a few times at the University of Hong Kong. He'd often borrow my bike and and cycle to the Hilton for tea, a very dangerous enterprise, handing the bike to the Majordomo. As far as I know he continued residence in the UK on his Australian passport and was a member of the Royal Academy. Condolences to his wonderful wife Lovedy and his children. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16751742803237771325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-16695679970433842642022-01-09T16:41:19.789+00:002022-01-09T16:41:19.789+00:00I learned IP in the 1980's, which was the last...I learned IP in the 1980's, which was the last decade that one could be an IP autodidact. It was possible only because of Bill Cornish's book, which l devoured and devoured again and again and .... I was not alone. Before there was distance learning, there was the Cornish book, which reached many of us in far flung locales, wherever. My IP adventure has been due in no small part to Bill's erudition and exposition. May his memory be blessed. Neil Wilkofhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04200865773480720037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-65330927071279762912022-01-09T15:02:35.362+00:002022-01-09T15:02:35.362+00:00So sorry to read of Professor Bill Cornish's d...So sorry to read of Professor Bill Cornish's death. My first encounter with IP Law was at Queen Mary (PGDip, 1989). My teachers included Professor Jeremy Phillips. We used the pale pink, blue and green paperback 'samizdat' early editions of Cornish's 'great and magisterial book'.ruthsoethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00021385960504251368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-29359887875860084382022-01-09T14:53:41.051+00:002022-01-09T14:53:41.051+00:00I owe so much to my friend Bill Cornish. We met i...I owe so much to my friend Bill Cornish. We met in November 1963 when he was an assistant lecturer at the LSE given the job of teaching the evening students. I started the course a bit late (I was doing the Bar exams too). He was teaching us contract law - the first topic I still remember - how precise must a contractual term be - see Hillas v Arcos - to sell at a reasonable price (cf FRAND). Bill taught my class for 3 of the four years of the course - he taught me Industrial Relations one year and Trusts another. Neither of us knew anything about IP. In the last year (1967) he was doing a pupillage in Francis Taylor Building (now 8 New Square) with Blanco. I pupilled there the next. Bill was the first to start teaching an IP course at any UK university - 1967. I helped out with a few lectures in the next few years - he was in part based at Max Planck from about 1969. I would have done much less without him. I am so, so sad.<br />Robin Jacob<br />Robin JacobNiborhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16704503789313448557noreply@blogger.com