Competition Law Association
JACQUES LASSIER PRIZE
Organised by the LIDC (International League of Competition Law) to honor the memory of Jacques Lassier, a distinguished lawyer at the Paris Bar and former chairman of our organisation. This esteemed prize aims to promote scholarly contributions in the filed of competition law, fostering intellectual dialogue and innovation.
Full details of the prize rules can be viewed here
GOLDING ESSAY PRIZE
2025 ENTRY DETAILS
The Golding Essay Prize is an annual prize of £1000 to be awarded for an essay submitted by (1) any student (whether currently based in the UK or in a foreign jurisdiction) but excluding any student currently practising as a qualified lawyer, whether full-time or part-time; or (2) any trainee solicitor, pupil barrister, devil barrister (from Scotland) or trainee patent and trade mark attorney; or (3) a qualified solicitor or barrister with less than 2 years PQE on a topic chosen by the CLA Committee. Past topics and winners are listed below.
The CLA encourages all entrants to consider submitting their entries for publication, and may lend support to the submission of the winning entry. The winning entry must only be published if it is identified on publication as having won the CLA's Golding Essay Prize. All entrants agree not to submit their entries for publication until after the judges have announced their decision. Several past winners have been published by Sweet & Maxwell in European Intellectual Property Review (EPIR) or by Oxford University Press in the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (JIPLP), and are reproduced below by agreement with the publishers.
Golding Essay Prize 2024
Portfolios, Pools and Public Intervention - IP strategies for a greener future?
Alex Mocanu, Trainee at Bristows LLP has won this years Golding Essay Prize. Congratulations Alex!
Essay can be viewed here
Golding Essay Prize 2023
How should 'bad faith' in trade mark applications be used to balance the interests of those who want to use the same or similar brands?
The Essay Prize was not awarded this year.
Golding Essay Prize 2022
Which courts should decide FRAND terms and whether patents are valid and essential to a standard and when should they do it?
Josh Stickland, Trainee at Hogan Lovells won the Golding Essay Prize 2022
Golding Essay Prize 2021
The Next Rembrandt project (https://www.nextrembrandt.com/) has recently applied artifical intelligence to generate a 'new' Rembrandt painting. Should copyright subsist in A1 artworks and who should get it?
Ben Williams, Trainee at Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton won the Golding Essay Prize 2021
Download published winning Essay 2021
Golding Essay Prize 2020
Are the courts of England & Wales right to consider plausibility in so many contexts as part of their validity analysis? What is the legal basis for their approach and what are the potential consequences?
The Essay Prize was not awarded this year.
Golding Essay Prize 2019
Following Brexit, will or should IP rights prevent the importation into the UK of goods put on the market outside the UK by the rightholder or with their consent?
Franziska Kurz, Graduate of Oxford University won the Golding Essay Prize 2019. The prize will be formally awarded at our lunchtime event on 19 June
Download published winning Essay 2019
Golding Essay Prize 2018
Was the Supreme Court right in Actavis v Eli Lilly to introduce a doctrine of equivalents when determining infringement of patents in the UK?
Crawford Jamieson, Trainee at Allen & Overy won the Golding Essay Prize 2018
Download published winning Essay 2018
This material was first published by Sweet & Maxwell in European Intellectual Property Review E.I.P.R 2019, 41(3), 147-154
Golding Essay Prize 2017
How can owners of EU trade marks effectively maintain their rights following Brexit, and what implications is this likely to have for trademark litigation and licensing? Will any assistance be needed by way of legislation to preserve rights of such owners in the UK?
Emily Thea won the Golding Essay Prize 2017
Golding Essay Prize 2016
"How should three dimensional shapes be protected under intellectual property law?"
The Essay Prize was not awarded this year as the judges determined that no entry was of sufficient quality.
Golding Essay Prize 2015
"Are the new 'fair dealing' provisions an improvement on the previous law, and why"
Sabine Jacques, a PhD student at Nottingham University, won the Golding Essay Prize 2015
Link to Published Article in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice
Golding Essay Prize 2014
To what extent should Courts take jurisdiction over infringement of foreign IP rights?
Hazan Yilmaztekin, University of Exeter won the Golding Essay Prize 2014.