Sunday Surprises

Webinars

Join Fashion Law London on April 13,l 2021 for “The New Age of Fashion: Sustainable Horizons”, an event entirely dedicated to sustainability and its legal significance for the fashion sector! Tickets are available here.

On April 13 and 14, the University College of London (UCL) is conducting a six-hour online course on “IP Terms in Trade Mark Agreements”. The course is intended for contracts managers, licensing executives, lawyers, trade mark attorneys and other practitioners whose job involves reviewing or drafting IP terms in commercial contracts. For more information, consult here.

On April 16, the UIC John Marshall Law school is offering a “IP Master Class” Virtual Seminar. This seminar will feature interactive sessions focusing on four key areas of patent practice: the International Trade Commission, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, U.S. district courts, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The first 10 Kat readers who use the discount code “IPKat2021” will receive a 20% discount on CLE registration. For more details, see here.

On April 22-23 and on May 17-19, the European Patent Office will be offering “Opposition Matters reloaded” and “Examination Matters reloaded”, a reprise of two 2020 courses that sparked high interest among the patent attorneys.

For World IP Day on April 26, the Intellectual Property Awareness Network (IPAN) is hosting a live online event with the support of the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and Nottingham Law School. The event will address IP strategy for FinTech start-ups & SMEs. More information on the event is available here.

On June 8-10, the World Intellectual Property Review (WIPR) is holding a WIPR Trademark Live event, whose topic is “Cost effective, efficient brand protection to maximise trademark value”. Attendance is free of charge and the complete agenda is available here.

Job opportunities

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) will publish traineeship opportunities in May 2021in areas such as medicine regulation, life sciences, healthcare, chemistry, information technology, law, pharmaceutical regulatory affairs, human resources, finance, communications, public relations and library and information science. More information about the EMA traineeships is available here.

The Oxford Internet Institute and Faculty of Philosophy are seeking to appoint an Associate Professor of AI & Society in association with a Senior Research Fellowship at Wadham College. More information on the position is available here.

The International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) is looking to hire a new Executive Director. Information on requirements and application documents is available here.

The UK IP Office has opened several positions for Associate Patent Examiners. The deadline for submitting the application documents is April 19, 2021. For more information on the vacancies, consult here.

Other

The Australian National University has extended the deadline for submitting paper proposals for the conference “Intellectual Property after Artificial Intelligence”, to be held in September 2021. Abstracts of 200-300 words are expected by May 31, 2021. For more information on the underlying topics, see the announcement here.

On November 14-16, 2021 Tel Aviv University will hold the 6th Workshop for Junior Scholars in Law, with the theme “Legal Change in Revolutionary Times”. Submissions are expected until June 1, including a 350- word abstract. The call for papers with additional details is available here.