Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) Podcast

Dr Matt Fisher (UCL) spoke on the topic of "Patents and Equivalents: Words Aren't Walls - A Modest Defence of Taking the Pith" at a seminar on 14 November 2019. The Supreme Court’s 2017 decision in Actavis v Eli Lilly ushered in a new era in patent claim interpretation. It marked an explicitly radical expansion of the patent’s reach through the doctrine of equivalents: a doctrine that extends prot...

Professor Christine Haight Farley (American University) spoke on the topic of "Unravelling Unfair Competition Law's Misunderstood Development" at a seminar on 5 November 2019. Tracing the development of U.S. unfair competition law reveals a sequence of events some of which we seem to have forgotten. First, we learn that unfair competition law has always been baffling. The accepted metaphor that tr...

Dr Poorna Mysoor, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford spoke on the topic of "Towards a Methodology for Implying Copyright Licences" at a seminar on 31 October 2019. A person infringes copyright if she exercises one of the exclusive rights without the licence of the copyright owner. An express licence granted by the copyright owner is the most common example of such a l...

Professor Graham Greenleaf of UNSW, spoke on the topic of "Assessing Data Privacy Laws after 50 Years of Global Enactment" at a seminar on 17 October 2019. It is (almost) 50 years since the first recognisable data privacy law was enacted in Hesse, Germany. Now there are 136 countries with data privacy laws, in all regions of the world but one, and multiple international agreements. How do we make...

Professor Ansgar Ohly, (LMU, Munich) delivered the fourteenth Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture (funded from the Herchel Smith Bequest) at Emmanuel College entitled 'Hybrids between Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition Law' on 12 March 2019 as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Professor Ohly holds law degrees from the Universities...

Professor Annette Kur (Max Planck Institute) spoke on the topic of "The CJEU's Functions Doctrine - where does it come from and where will it take us?" at a seminar on 5 March 2019. Professor Kur is an Affiliated Research Fellow in Intellectual Property and Competition Law at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. She is the author of numerous books and articles in the field of n...

Dr Xavier Seuba (CEIPI, University of Strasbourg) spoke on the topic of "Negotiating Intellectual Property Chapters in New European Trade Agreements" at a seminar on 28 February 2019. Preferential trade agreements have become a crucial source of international intellectual property law. As a proof of this, more than 160 preferential trade agreements presently regulate intellectual property in a rel...

Antony White QC of Matrix Chambers spoke on the title: 'Mapping the Frontiers of Privacy and Data Protection: Recent Cases and Key Issues' at a seminar on 21 February 2019. Antony's talk specifically explores: - Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and criminal investigation/arrest; - Article 8 and family life; - The liability of internet intermediaries for the posting of private c...

Professor Dr Hong Xue of the Beijing Normal University, spoke on the topic of "Copyright on E-Commerce Platforms: An Insight Preview of Chinese New Law" at a seminar on 18 January 2019. Chinese E-Commerce Law, effective from 1 January 2019, impacts all the stakeholders in the business. This comprehensive Law revamps the copyright system applicable to e-commerce platforms by redefining their roles,...

Dr Łukasz Żelechowski of Warsaw University, spoke on the topic of "Freedom of Expression and Trade Mark Law: In Search of Legal Mechanisms for Striking a Balance" at a seminar on 20 November 2018. The tension between protection of trade mark rights and considerations concerning freedom of expression and its limits has grown in recent years. The development of case law in this area in the EU and el...

Gillian Phillips, Director of Editorial Legal Services at The Guardian News and Media spoke on the topic of "The Ethical and Legal Framework within which the Guardian approaches Information Concerning Natural Persons" at a seminar on 15 November 2018. For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk

Dr Ge Chen (Durham University) spoke on the topic of 'How Copyright Affects Free Expression: A Perspective from Sino-US Trade War' at a seminar on 1 November 2018. The tension between copyright and freedom of expression has generated a spate of discussion and debates in recent copyright law discourse. Presumably, copyright may both facilitate and hinder free expression in different contexts. China...

Professor Robert W. Gomulkiewicz (University of Washington) spoke on the topic of 'Copyright Licensing for Revolutionaries' at a seminar on 26 October 2018. Open access and open development have become popular approaches to creative and innovative activity. How does law, especially intellectual property law, relate to openness? Drawing on lessons from open source software, this seminar explores th...

Dr Yin Harn Lee of Sheffield University, spoke on the topic of 'Rethinking the "Copy" in Copyright' at a seminar on 18 October 2018. The exclusive right to control the copying of a work has been given a very broad definition in the present day. The adoption of a technology-neutral definition of ‘copying’ means that it now encompasses tangible and intangible copies, permanent and temporary copies,...

Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Global Professor of Intellectual Property Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, spoke on the topic of "Non-Traditional Marks In Europe: Conceptual Lessons From Their Potential Demise" at a seminar on 10 May 2018. Graeme B. Dinwoodie is Global Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and co-Director of the Centre for Design, Law and Technology. He...

Professor Robert Burrell (University of Sheffield) and Dr Aaron Graham (UCL) spoke on the topic of "The History of Patents,1600-1850" at a seminar on 3 May 2018. Robert Burrell holds joint appointments as Professor of Law at the University of Sheffield and Melbourne Law School. His previous academic positions include posts at the Australian National University and King’s College London. He has als...

Dr Sabine Jacques, UEA Lecturer in IP/IT/Media Law, spoke on the topic of "The Parody Exception in Copyright Law" at a seminar on 26 April 2018. Sabine Jacques joined UEA in 2016 as Lecturer in IP/IT/Media Law. Previously, Sabine achieved a PhD in copyright law at the University of Nottingham where she studied: ‘The Right to Parody? A comparative analysis’. In this research, she has a specific foc...

Professor Litman, John F. Nickoll Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, delivered the thirteenth Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture (funded from the Herchel Smith Bequest) at Emmanuel College entitled 'Copyright and Property-Think' on 13 March 2018 as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Professor Jessica Litman is the John F. Nicko...

The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) Annual Spring Conference 2018 was held on 10 May 2018, on the subject of 'Intermediary Liability and Responsibility'. This recording features Przemysław Polanski (Kozminski University). The creation of open and responsible digital markets is a major policy priority across the globe, linking critically to both economic dynamism and to...

The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) Annual Spring Conference 2018 was held on 10 May 2018, on the subject of 'Intermediary Liability and Responsibility'. This recording features Nicolo Zingales (University of Sussex). The creation of open and responsible digital markets is a major policy priority across the globe, linking critically to both economic dynamism and to pro...

The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) Annual Spring Conference 2018 was held on 10 May 2018, on the subject of 'Intermediary Liability and Responsibility'. This recording features Matthias Leistner (LMU Munich). The creation of open and responsible digital markets is a major policy priority across the globe, linking critically to both economic dynamism and to protecting...

The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) Annual Spring Conference 2018 was held on 10 May 2018, on the subject of 'Intermediary Liability and Responsibility'. This recording features Christina Angelopoulos (CIPIL, University of Cambridge). The creation of open and responsible digital markets is a major policy priority across the globe, linking critically to both economic dy...

The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) Annual Spring Conference 2018 was held on 10 May 2018, on the subject of 'Intermediary Liability and Responsibility'. This recording features Daithi Mac Sithigh (Queen’s University Belfast). The creation of open and responsible digital markets is a major policy priority across the globe, linking critically to both economic dynamism a...

The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) Annual Spring Conference 2018 was held on 10 May 2018, on the subject of 'Intermediary Liability and Responsibility'. This recording features Mark Bunting (Communications Chambers/Oxford Internet Institute). The creation of open and responsible digital markets is a major policy priority across the globe, linking critically to both ec...

The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) Annual Spring Conference 2018 was held on 10 May 2018, on the subject of 'Intermediary Liability and Responsibility'. This recording features Hugh Tomlinson (Matrix Chambers). The creation of open and responsible digital markets is a major policy priority across the globe, linking critically to both economic dynamism and to protectin...