Christopher Heath (1964) studied law at the Universities of Konstanz, Edinburgh and the LSE. He lived and worked in Japan for three years, and between 1992 and 2005 headed the Asian Department of the Max-Planck-Institute for Patent, Copyright and Competition Law in Munich. Christopher Heath, who wrote his PhD thesis on Japanese unfair competition prevention law, is a Member of the Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Office in Munich, co-editor of IIC and editor of the Max Planck Institute s Asian Intellectual Property Series published by Kluwer Law International.