Dr Patrick Goold
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About
Overview
Patrick Goold teaches and writes about intellectual property, private law, jurisprudence, and legal pedagogy.
Qualifications
- Senior Fellow, Advance HE, December 2021
- Attorney at Law, New York State Bar, July 2010
- PhD, International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation, Germany
- LLM, Cornell Law School, USA
- LLB, Newcastle University, UK
- BA (PPE), The Open University, UK
Employment
- Senior Lecturer, The City Law School, Present, August 2020 - August 2022
- Lecturer, The City Law School, UK, September 2018 - August 2020
- Qualcomm Fellow and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School, USA, August 2016 - August 2018
- IP Fellow, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, USA, July 2014 - July 2016
- Microsoft Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, USA, October 2012 - June 2014
Research students
1stsupervisor
- Nouf Ali S Algazlan, Research Student
Publications
Publications by category
Books (3)
- Goold, P.R. (2024). A Critical Introduction to Intellectual Property Law. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009182287.
- Bonadio, E. and Goold, P. (Eds.), (2023). The Cambridge Handbook of Investment-Driven Intellectual Property. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108839198.
- Goold, P.R. (2022). IP Accidents. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108841481.
Chapters (3)
- Ashton, J. and Wilson, J. (2026). From podcasts to posters: 20 case study examples of authenticity in legal assessment. How to Embed Authenticity in Legal Assessments (pp. 72-164). Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781035327065.
- Goold, P. (2024). The banality of NFTs. NFTs, Creativity and the Law (pp. 249-262). Routledge.
- Goold, P. (2023). The Philosophical Foundations of Investment-Driven IP. The Cambridge Handbook of Investment-Driven Intellectual Property (pp. 341-350). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108839198.
Journal articles (23)
- Simon, D. and Goold, P. (2025). The Case of Snickerwood Soup. Intellectual Property Quarterly, 3, pp. 180-207
- Goold, P. and Algazlan, N. (2025). The UK’s evolving copyright subject matter through the lens of John Cage’s 4’33. European Intellectual Property Review, 47(8), pp. 492-502
- Goold, P. and Simon, D. (2025). IP's Pluralism Puzzle. Texas Law Review, 103(7), pp. 1453-1475
- Goold, P. and Simon, D. (2024). On Copyright Utilitarianism. Indiana law journal (Indianapolis, Ind. : 1926), 99(3), pp. 721-773
- Goold, P.R. (2024). Intellectual Property Absurdism or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love IP. The Modern Law Review, 87(3), pp. 761-784. doi:10.1111/1468-2230.12875
- Goold, P., Mimler, M., Bonadio, E. and Green, E. (2023). Mind the Gap: Analysing the Disconnect Between IP Research and IP Policy. European Intellectual Property Review (EIPR), 45(8), pp. 439-443
- Goold, P. (2022). Intellectual Property's Faith-Based Empiricism. The Green Bag: an entertaining journal of law
- Goold, P.R. (2022). The Legal Judgment: A Novel Twist on the Classic Law School Problem Question. The Law Teacher, 56(3), pp. 368-383. doi:10.1080/03069400.2021.2000232
- Goold, P. and Simon, D. (2022). Lucky IP. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. doi:10.1093/ojls/gqac006
- Goold, P. (2021). Moral Reflections on Strict Liability in Copyright. Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts, 44(2), pp. 123-156
- Goold, P. (2021). The Curious Case of Computer-Generated Works under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Intellectual Property Quarterly, 2, pp. 119-129
- Goold, P. (2021). A Radical Restructuring? A Response to Bell and Parchomovsky, Restructuring Copyright Infringement. Texas Law Review Online, 99, pp. 101-110
- Goold, P. (2020). Artificial Authors: Case Studies of Copyright in Works of Machine Learning. Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, 67, pp. 427-470
- Goold, P. (2020). Patent Accidents: Questioning Strict Liability in Patent Law. Indiana Law Journal, 95(4), pp. 1075-1135
- Goold, P. (2017). The Lost Tort of Moral Rights Invasion. Akron Law Review, 51(4), pp. 1093-1125
- Goold, P. (2017). The Interpretive Argument for a Balanced Three-Step Test? American University International Law Review, 33(1), pp. 187-230
- Goold, P. (2017). Intent in Patent Infringement. Florida Law Review Forum, 68, pp. 93-100
- Goold, P. (2016). Unbundling the “Tort” of Copyright Infringement. Virginia Law Review, 102(8), pp. 1833-1899
- Goold, P. and Bracha, O. (2016). Copyright Accidents. Boston University Law Review, 96(3), pp. 1025-1091
- Goold, P. (2015). Is Copyright Infringement a Strict Liability Tort? Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 30(1), pp. 305-383. doi:10.15779/Z38MP32
- Goold, P. (2014). Why the U.K. Adaptation Right is Superior to the U.S. Derivative Work Right. Nebraska Law Review, 92(4), pp. 843-896
- Goold, P. (2014). Corrective Justice and Copyright Infringement. Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, 16(2), pp. 251-295
- Goold, P. (2012). The Evolution of Normative Legal Scholarship: The Case of Copyright Discourse. European Journal of Legal Studies, 5(2), pp. 23-29
Working paper
- Goold, P. (2025). IP Pluralism’s Puzzle. London, UK: City Law School
Other
- Goold, P.(2025). Copyright and Artificial Intelligence: A Response to the UK Intellectual Property Office’s Open Consultation.