Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) Podcast

Speaker : Lisa P. Ramsey, Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law Professor Lisa P. Ramsey, Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law and an expert on trademark law, will be speaking on her new book, Trademarks and Free Speech: Conflicts and Resolutions (CUP: 2026) . This book explores how trademark laws can conflict with the right to freedom of expression and p...

Speaker: Professor Leah Grinwald (Dean and Richard J. Morgan Professor of Law, University of Nevada) Session 3: Comparative Experience and Potential Reform On Saturday 21 March 2026, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights' In Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Wright [2024] EWHC 1809 (Ch), [63],...

Speaker: Trevor Cook (Bird and Bird) Full title: 'Does the UK Need a Distinct Doctrine of Abuse of Right? – Lessons from the Civil Law' Session 3: Comparative Experience and Potential Reform On Saturday 21 March 2026, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights' In Crypto Open Patent Alliance v W...

Speaker: Phil Barnes (BarnesIP) Session 2: Current Disincentives and Remedies On Saturday 21 March 2026, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights' In Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Wright [2024] EWHC 1809 (Ch), [63], Mellor J. observed “IP rights, being monopolies of various sorts, are … justif...

Speaker: Trevor Cook (Bird and Bird) Session 2: Current Disincentives and Remedies On Saturday 21 March 2026, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights' In Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Wright [2024] EWHC 1809 (Ch), [63], Mellor J. observed “IP rights, being monopolies of various sorts, are … j...

Speaker: Dr Katarina Foss-Solbrekk (University of Copenhagen) Session 2: Current Disincentives and Remedies On Saturday 21 March 2026, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights' In Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Wright [2024] EWHC 1809 (Ch), [63], Mellor J. observed “IP rights, being monopolies...

Speaker: Dr Quentin Schaefer (11 South Square) Session 2: Current Disincentives and Remedies On Saturday 21 March 2026, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights' In Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Wright [2024] EWHC 1809 (Ch), [63], Mellor J. observed “IP rights, being monopolies of various sort...

The nineteenth Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture was delivered by Professor Ruth Okediji , Jeremiah Smith. Jr, Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University on Tuesday 17 March 2026. The lecture entitled 'Thirty Plus One: TRIPS, Innovation, and the Political Future of Minimum IP Standards' took place at Emmanuel College, C...

Speaker : Associate Professor David A. Simon, Northeastern University School of Law Biography : David A. Simon, J.D., LL.M., Ph. D., is an Associate Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law, where he teaches courses on tort law, administrative law, and drug & device regulation. Professor Simon’s research focuses on innovation in healthcare, with an emphasis on drugs and device...

Speaker : Dr Christopher Stothers, Partner at Freshfields in London and Dublin Biography : Christopher Stothers is a partner at Freshfields in London and Dublin and an experienced patent litigator, managing strategic, cross-border disputes around Europe and beyond for over 20 years. He has acted as a legal practitioner in many oppositions and appeals before the European Patent Office and as a UPC...

Speaker : Dr Svitlana Lebedenko, Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick and part-time Assistant Professor at the European University Institute. Biography : Dr Svitlana Lebedenko specialises in innovation and industrial policy, law and technology, and intellectual property law. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Law at the University of Warwick and a part-time Assist...

Speaker : Dr Poorna Mysoor, CIPIL, University of Cambridge Biography : Dr Poorna Mysoor is a Fellow in Law at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. She was a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at Oxford Law Faculty. She is the author of two books, Copyright as Personal Property (2025) and Implied Licences in Copyright Law (2021), both published with Oxford University Press, and of oth...

Speaker: Professor Jon Penney (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto) In this talk, Jon Penney explores key themes from his new book Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age (Cambridge University Press, 2025), which examines the increasing weaponization of surveillance, censorship, and new technology to repress and control us. With corporations, government...

Speaker : Tim Pitt-Payne KC, 11 Kings Bench Walk Biography : Timothy Pitt-Payne KC is a leading information law silk based at 11KBW where he has practiced since 1990. He was appointed QC/KC in 2010. His information law practice involves both litigation and advisory work in data protection, freedom of information, access to environmental information, RIPA, human rights issues, privacy, and breach o...

Speaker : Professor Lilian Edwards, Emeritus Professor of Law, Innovation & Society, Newcastle Law School  Biography : Lilian Edwards is a leading academic in the field of Internet law. She has taught information technology law, e-commerce law, privacy law and Internet law at undergraduate and postgraduate level since 1996 and been involved with law and artificial intelligence (...

Speaker: Professor Bhamati Viswanathan, Visitor, Cambridge Law Faculty and Fellow at the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School Biography: Bhamati Viswanathan is a Senior Visitor at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law and a Fellow (Non-Resident) at the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School (New York). Prior to joining the Cambridge...

Speaker : Dr Yin Harn Lee, Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol Biography : Dr Yin Harn Lee is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol. Her research interests lie primarily in copyright law. A significant part of her research focuses on copyright and videogames, and she is also interested in historical aspects of copyright as well as the interface between int...

Speaker : Professor Andrew Christie, University of Melbourne Biography : Professor Andrew Christie was the foundation appointment to the Chair of Intellectual Property at the University of Melbourne in 2002.He holds BSc and LLB (Hons) degrees from the University of Melbourne, a LLM from the University of London, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge (Emmanuel College). Admitted...

Speaker: Professor Niva Elkin Koren (Tel Aviv University) Session 4: Concluding Thoughts – AI Transforming IP On Saturday 29th March 2025, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Is AI Transforming IP?' For the last few years, lots of attention has been paid to AI and IP. The Supreme Court has already considered whether AI c...

Speaker: Professor Tanya Aplin (King’s College London) Session 3: AI Transforming the Scope of Protection and Enforcement On Saturday 29th March 2025, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Is AI Transforming IP?' For the last few years, lots of attention has been paid to AI and IP. The Supreme Court has already considered wheth...

Speaker: Mr Dennis Collopy (University of Hertfordshire) Session 3: AI Transforming the Scope of Protection and Enforcement On Saturday 29th March 2025, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Is AI Transforming IP?' For the last few years, lots of attention has been paid to AI and IP. The Supreme Court has already considered whe...

Speaker: Professor Sean Flynn (Washington College of Law) Session 3: AI Transforming the Scope of Protection and Enforcement On Saturday 29th March 2025, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Is AI Transforming IP?' For the last few years, lots of attention has been paid to AI and IP. The Supreme Court has already considered wh...

Speaker: Mr David Stone (White & Case LLP) Session 2: AI Transforming IP Application / Registration Processes and Eligibility Tests On Saturday 29th March 2025, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Is AI Transforming IP?' For the last few years, lots of attention has been paid to AI and IP. The Supreme Court has already co...

Speaker: Professor Mireille van Eechoud (University of Amsterdam) Session 3: AI Transforming the Scope of Protection and Enforcement On Saturday 29th March 2025, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Is AI Transforming IP?' For the last few years, lots of attention has been paid to AI and IP. The Supreme Court has already...

Speaker: Professor Dev Gangjee (University of Oxford) Session 2: AI Transforming IP Application / Registration Processes and Eligibility Tests On Saturday 29th March 2025, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Is AI Transforming IP?' For the last few years, lots of attention has been paid to AI and IP. The Supreme Court has alr...