Monday Miscellany

To get your week started, here's the latest update of IP news, events, and opportunities.

Thanks and all the best Cecilia! - The IPKat is sad to say farewell to Cecilia Sbrolli, who is stepping down from her role as GuestKat. An Italian IP enthusiast, Cecilia is currently a lawyer at the Brussels office of K&L Gates, mainly dealing with competition and commercial law issues. We thank Cecilia for all her work for and dedication to the blog and we look forward to collaborating with her in the future in some other capacity. Thanks Cecilia and all the best! 

Events

On July 16th (11:00 EST/16:00 GMT) Managing IP and Incopro are hosting a free webinar on the topic of "Search Engines can do more to protect your intellectual property". The webinar will look in-depth at what actions search engines can take to help protect rights holder's IP, but more importantly what more can search engines do.

Join the webinar as the speakers - Simon Baggs (Incopro), Dan Glover (McCarthy Tetrault), Helen Saunders (Incopro), and Moderator Sanjana Kapila (Managing IP) - analyse:

• What is happening online, with practical case study examples on issues affecting the pharma, sports, consumer product, motoring and electrical sectors
• The case law that shows how search engines can be required to do more
• What next steps brands can take to get more cooperation from search engines

The research conducted by Incopro and its legal network partners will be released in an upcoming white paper. More information and how to register for the webinar are available here.

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Save the date for the 2019 I3PM Meets Academia conference: “Strategic Management of Intellectual Property in Business Organizations: Value, Use and Risks” on 19th November 2019 in Milan at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. For more information on the event, see I3PM's website here or contact webmaster@i3pm.org.

Join John Marshall Law School on Friday, November 1, 2019 for the 63rd Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference in Chicago, tackling current developments in Intellectual Property, Information Technology & Privacy Law. More information and how to register can be found here. As the IPKat is an institutional partner of The John Marshall Law School, we're pleased to offer a 20% discount off general admission tickets to the first 20 readers! The code discount code is: jmlsipkat2019.

On October 14th 2019 at the Millennium Hotel in Mayfair, London the 2019 the London IP Summit will be back for the 8th time. The London IP Summit  is an annual networking meeting for C-level IP professionals aimed at promoting innovation and IP protection. LIPS is attended by 120 delegates representing largest and most innovative tech and biotech companies as well as top legal firms. More information can be found here.

Job Opportunities

My alma mater, the University of Southampton, is looking for two Associate Professors in Corporate or Commercial Law, with also a position focused on IP law. To apply and for more information click here.

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) is offering a Copyright and Digitization Economics Fellowship to start on the 1st of September 2019. Those interested in applying should contact Alexander Cuntz with a CV and a research sample.

The University of Antwerp is looking for an IP Law Academic Assistant to start on the 1st of October 2019 for 2 years. Applications must be submitted online here (the deadline is the 18th of August 2019), and more information can be found here.

The House of Innovation at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) invites applications for a tenure-track position (Assistant Professor level) in Technology & Innovation Management. Applications must be submitted online here (the deadline is the 16th of September 2019), and more information can be found here.

The Faculty of Law, Masaryk University launches a call for projects of post-doctoral fellows from abroad in the field of intellectual property protection. The contract is expected to start on January 1st, 2020. The deadline for applications is the 31st of August 2019, and more information can be found here.

The Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) has a range of opportunities on offer, including: a PhD position on “Intellectual property and sustainable development: what interactions? what protection?”; an employment offer for a research assistant; and two internships in human rights and IP. More information on each of the roles can be found here.

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