Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) Podcast

Professor Martin Senftleben (VU University Amsterdam) gave a seminar entitled "Protecting Mickey Mouse and the Mona Lisa in Perpetuity? - The Need to Leave Cultural Material Free From Trade Mark Protection" on Tuesday 18 November 2014 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Professor Senftleben is an expert on the law of copyright and t...

Simon Davies (partner and patent attorney at D Young & Co.) and Julian Potter (partner, patent attorney and trade mark attorney at WP Thompson) gave an evening seminar entitled "Software patents - legal and commercial perspectives" on Thursday 1 May 2014 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). For more information see the CIPIL website...

Professor Kevin Outterson (Professor of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights, Boston University and Visiting Fellow at Chatham House, Centre on Global Health Security) gave an evening seminar entitled "The legal ecology of resistance, or why normal IP rules shouldn't apply to antibiotics" on Thursday 24 April 2014 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property an...

Christopher Rennie-Smith, of the Board of Appeal - European Patent Office, gave an evening seminar entitled "Bioscience, patent law, and the generally-overlooked requirement of industrial application" on Thursday 13 February 2014 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). The requirement that an invention be capable of industrial applicati...

Julius Stobbs, Founder, Stobbs, gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "What makes a trade mark inherently distinctive?" on Thursday 30 January 2014 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Prior to founding Stobbs, Julius was Head of Trade Marks at Ipulse. He was also a Partner at a major European firm for seven years. He has extensive exper...

Professor Alice Lee, Associate Professor, Hong Kong University, gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "An Exception for Parody - A Common Concern in the Recent Copyright Consultation in UK and Hong Kong" on Thursday 5 December 2013 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Alice Lee specializes in property/land law and intellectual property l...

Dr Eleonora Rosati (Research Associate, CRASSH and CIPIL), gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "If You Expect Nothing From Anybody, You're Never Disappointed: Orphan Works in the EU and UK" on Thursday 14 November 2013 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Eleonora is currently a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, where...

Professor Sam Ricketson, Professor of Law at Melbourne Law School, gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "The Past and Present of the Paris Convention" on Thursday 7 November 2013 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk

Dr Ge Chen gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "From Shevill to Pinckney: How the European Courts Balance Information Regarding Rights in Internet Jurisdiction" on Thursday 24 October 2013 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Dr Chen is a Research Associate in intellectual property and global regulation at the University of Cambridge,...

Professor Tim Wu, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "Net Neutrality and Freedom of Speech" on Thursday 30th May 2013 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). The Internet has been widely understood, at least in the United States, as a boon to new forms of speech, thou...

Rajeev Sachdev, Ph. D researcher at Maastricht University, gave an evening seminar entitled "Towards an Improved Legal Framework for Trademarks and Copyrights in Social Media and Mobile Apps: Web 2.0 Legal Lessons from the Silicon Valley" on Tuesday 21st May 2013 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). A presentation of research on how...

Professor Christopher Marsden, University of Sussex, and Mr Ian Brown, Oxford University, gave an evening seminar entitled "Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age" on Thursday 10th May 2013 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Christopher T. Marsden is Professor of Law at the University of Susse...

Justin Turner QC, gave an evening seminar entitled "Do we need patents for Embryonic Stem Cells?" on Thursday 2nd May 2013 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Do patents matter? Stem cell science is, to a greater or lesser extent, to be denied patent protection. Apparently it is unethical, notwithstanding that it has been funded by...

Dr Yahong Li, Associate Professor and Deputy Head at the Department of Law, University of Hong Kong, gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "Changes in Chinese patent law and the impact on innovation in China" on Thursday 2nd May 2013 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). China has become a patent powerhouse lately, but has China become mo...

Professor Paul Heald, University of Illinois School of Law, gave an seminar entitled "Do Bad Things Happen When Works Enter the Public Domain? Empirical Tests of Copyright Term Extension" on Thursday 28th February 2013 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Paul Heald (University of Illinois School of Law) lectures on patent, copyright...

Professor Graeme Dinwoodie, Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law at the University of Oxford, gave an evening seminar entitled "Mapping Marks and Markets: the Unitary Nature of the CTM" on Thursday 14th February 2013 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). About the speaker: Graeme Dinwoodie is the Professor...

Petroula Vantsiouri, Doctoral Candidate at the University of Cambridge, gave an evening seminar entitled "The Justifications Behind the Legal Protection of Self-help Mechanisms" on Friday 30th November 2012 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Petroula Vantsiouri is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Cambridge. Her research in...

This session brought together representatives from two very different organisations that have frequently advocated for reform of the current copyright regime. The objective of this session was to tease out the similarities and differences in the nature of each organisation’s respective criticisms of and objections to copyright law in its present form, as well as the similarities and differences in...

Sean Bottomley, Ph. D candidate in History, University of Cambridge, gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "The Specification Requirement and the Diffusion of Technology During the Eighteenth Century" on Thursday 17th May 2012 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.u...

Helen Gubby, Adjunct Professor, Rotterdam School of Management and the School of Law, Erasmus University, gave an evening seminar entitled "Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: Why the Patent Disputes of the Industrial Revolution Shed Light on the Patent Disputes of the Digital Age" on Thursday 17th May 2012 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and I...

Keith Schilling, Senior Partner and Co-Founder of Schillings, gave an evening seminar entitled "Law, Celebrity and the Internet" on Wednesday 9th May 2012 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Keith Schilling is Senior Partner and Co-Founder of Schillings, which is regarded as the pre-eminent claimant law firm in England, specialising...

David Lametti, Associate Professor of Law, McGill University, a member of the Institute of Comparative Law, and of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP), gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "The Cloud as Enclosure 3.0" on Thursday 24th May 2012 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). This was the first of two presentations. F...

David Lametti, Associate Professor of Law, McGill University, a member of the Institute of Comparative Law, and of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP), gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "Virtue Ethics and IP/Property: The Briefest of Introductions" on Thursday 24th May 2012 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). This was...

Jennifer Davis, University of Cambridge, gave an seminar entitled "Trade mark law and brand values (or Arsenal v Reed Ten Years On)" on Tuesday 7th February 2012 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Over the past couple of decades the language of brands has become inextricably linked with the language of commerce. This lecture begins...

Professor Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University, gave an evening seminar entitled "Patents, Pharmaceuticals and the Health Impact Fund" on Friday 27th January 2012 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Thomas Pogge is a German philosopher and currently the Leitner Professor of Philoso...