Saturday Sunshine

Another week means another round of IPKat's Miscellany, including exciting IP Events, calls for papers and job opportunities!

Events:

4iP Council has a new webinar coming up soon. Held on the 14th of May, the topic will be "Understanding Injunctions in European Patent Law" and the presenter will be Prof. Dr. Lea Tochtermann of Mannheim University. Registration and more details can be found here.

With INTA Annual Meeting just around the corner, the International Trademark Association will be holding a press conference to announce the release of its latest impact study - “Gen Z Insights: Brands and Counterfeit Products Study". This press conference will take place on Thursday the 16th of May at 16:30 EST in New York and will also be live streamed. For more information or to RSVP please contact JC Darne at jdarne@inta.org.

The Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys is holding its CITMA Summer Reception on Tuesday the 2nd of July. Early bird tickets are available before 3rd June, after which the tickets are full price. Click here for more information.

Keen Kat ready to travel far for the
upcoming IP Events

The Swedish Copyright Society is holding its XVII Nordic Copyright Symposium in Visby. This year's theme is: "Is there a Nordic copyright? On the impact of EU law and the scope for national specificity". The event is taking place on the 5-6th of September, with a golf tournament the day before and an excursion to Ingmar Bergman's Fårö the day after the event. Further information on the programme and registration can be all found here.

On the 18th and 19th of June, at the London Stadium in Stratford, London, the Intellectual Property Office in the United Kingdom, in co-operation with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) is hosting a conference on "AI: decoding IP". Registration is free and can be done here. If you are unable to attend the conference, the event will be live-streamed for those who register and specify their preference.

Other:

Other miscellany include: Interactive Entertainment Law Review (IELR) is now accepting submissions for the forthcoming Volume 2 Issue 2. Submissions for this volume are to be sent by the 18th of August 2019 and will be considered and subsequently published in Winter 2019. Further information can be found on www.elgaronline.com/ielr or by contacting journals@e-elgar.co.uk.

A research assistant position has opened up at Goldsmiths University of London. This post is part of the 5-year research project Politics of Patents: Re-imagining Citizenship via Clothing Inventions 1820-2020 led by Dr Kat Jungnickel, for a start in September 2019. Applications close on the 8th of May 2019. If you'd like to apply, more information can be found here.

A postdoc/fellowship position in Law & Tech has opened up at ETH Zurich. Further information can be found here, and any questions regarding the position should be directed to Prof. Alexander Stremitzer by email at astremitzer@ethz.ch. To apply please do so through the portal here.

Lastly, a PhD position is available on the research topic - 'Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of E-Health Regarding Sharing Personal Sensitive Data on an IoE Platform'. The closing date for applications is the 15th of May at 1:00 pm CEST. More information about this opportunity can be found here.

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