Consumer protection, PhD students and IP rights: where are we now?

In this episode Smita Jamdar and Andrew Hartshorn consider the case of Oxford University Innovation v Oxford Nanoimaging Limited [2022] EWHC 3200 (Pat), the extent to which PhD students are considered as consumers under the various consumer protection laws, the approach to evaluating unfairness of such terms in university contracts with students, the applicability or impact of consumer protection laws on terms relating to student intellectual property rights and what universities should do as a result.

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