Dr. Brian Bandey is acknowledged as one of the leading experts on Information Technology Law and the international application of the Law of Copyright and Patents to Computer and Internet Programming Technologies. His experience in the global computer law environment spans more than three decades and he routinely advises on and drafts contracts in respect of almost every specie of arrangement that the world computer software and internet industries make. This work has received judicial approbation.
Dr. Bandey services the needs of multinational software houses for specialist intellectual property – computer–internet law advice throughout the world. He is the author of the definitive legal practitioner’s textbook on “International Copyright in Computer Program Technology”. This work is recognised as being the first definitive text which examines all of the principal technologies employed in the development, manufacture, use and general exploitation of all computer program types; thereafter applying the Law of Copyright (in the United Kingdom, USA, and the European Union).
It is cited regularly and internationally by other senior academic practitioners (as one example, see “Intellectual Property” by W.R. Cornish KC – Emeritus Herschel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Cambridge University). His Papers are also cited by Doctoral Law Programme Students.
Another edition to this work is in progress together with works on Big Data and Cloud Law, and Intellectual Property in Computer, Internet and Artificial Intelligence Programming.
Dr. Bandey’s legal opinions are regularly published throughout the world. His articles appear internationally: e.g., articles on “Multimedia Law” and “Computer-Generated Works” published in the New Zealand Intellectual Property Journal and most recently “Over-categorisation in Copyright Law: Computer and Internet Programming Perspectives” in the prestigious European Intellectual Property Review. Dr. Bandey is not a self-published author.
His commentaries on contemporary IT legal issues have been syndicated by the BBC and Washington Post, among others. Among the papers Dr. Bandey has presented internationally are ones on Copyright in Computer-Generated Multimedia Works (National and European Conference on Law, Computers and Artificial Intelligence) and on IT Intellectual Property: Global Management through the Offshore Holding Entity (International Symposia sponsored by the Republic of the Seychelles).
Besides the presentation of academic papers at Oxford University – Dr. Bandey has taught at the Intellectual Property Summer School at the London School of Economics, London, England; Oxford University, England and as an Associate Professor at the University of Tulsa, School of Law.
Dr. Bandey studied for a Second Doctorate of Law advancing the state of the art in the Intellectual Property in the Construction, Structure and Operation of Internet-based Technologies with St. Peter’s College at the University of Oxford in England. He was a Research Associate of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre.
His other current, additional, and major research threads include:
Evidential Reliability of Digital Compliance Records in Regulated Healthcare Environments
The Law on Custodianship and Ownership of Massively Multiplayer Online Games.
Patent Registration and Copyright Growth for Systematized, Algorithmic Business Processes.