Trevor COOK, a national of the United Kingdom, is a partner with Bird & Bird in London. He is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Group. Mr. Cook is a solicitor and holds a degree in chemistry from the University of Southampton.

Mr. Cook has extensive experience in multi-jurisdiction patent litigation. He is on the WIPO List of Arbitrators and has acted as counsel and arbitrator in various arbitration cases. He has recently acted as arbitrator in a complex international WIPO patent arbitration.

Mr. Cook is the President of the UK Group of the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI), Secretary to the British Copyright Council Standing Committee on Copyright and Technology, and a member of the Council of the Intellectual Property Institute.

Mr. Cook has authored several books and articles especially on patent issues, in particular The Protection of Regulatory Data in the Pharmaceutical and Other Sectors (Sweet & Maxwell 2000) and A User’s Guide to Patents (Butterworths 2002, Tottel - 2006) and Pharmaceuticals Biotechnology and the Law (Macmillan 1991, LexisNexis Butterworths 2009).