Sunday Surprises

We’re almost at the end of March now. Here are the latest events and opportunities.

 

Calls and opportunities

Bill Cornish Memorial Fund

A fund to support doctoral researchers in intellectual property at University of Cambridge has been established in honour of Bill Cornish, a seminal figure in establishing the modern study of IP law in much of the common law world. If you would like to give, please visit this link here. If you would like to discuss the possibility of a larger donation, please contact cornishmemorialfund@law.cam.ac.uk.

Fellowship program for researchers affected by the earthquakes

The Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law has created a fellowship program for researchers affected by the February 6 earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, aimed exclusively at those in an emergency situation due to the earthquakes. For more information, click the link here.

Summer School in Lucca/Creative Industries between Law & Heritage

Dr. Felicia Caponigri and Dr. Anna Pirri Valentini will be hosting a summer school in Lucca (with virtual attendance options) from June 12-14. The focus will be on examining art and cultural heritage from a comparative, Italo-American perspective with a fashion law component. For more information, click here.

 

Events

 

'First in Intellectual Property Law': 2023 Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture

Prof. Jeanne Fromer’s lecture on March 14 as part of the CIPIL Intellectual Property Seminar Series is available online to watch here.

 

CIPIL spring conference 2023

The annual spring conference, tilted ‘Intellectual Property Rights as Allied Rights: Bill Cornish and the Making of Today’s Intellectual Property System’, is available online to watch here.

 

Seventh Session of the WIPO Conversation – Intellectual Property and the Metaverse

The WIPO will be hosting this event in Geneva (with virtual attendance options) on March 29-30. For more information, click the link here.

 

Blockchain and IP Law #2

The European Blockchain Centre will be hosting their second conference on the intersection of blockchain technology/web3/metaverse and IP Law at ITU Copenhagen on April 19. The lectures will cover subjects such as patient data as NFTs, blockchain-infused circular economies and trademark law in web 3.0. More details and the link for the livestream are available here.

 

Copyright: the announced legislative developments

The Research Centre for Justice and Governance of the School of Law of University of Minho – JusGov and the NOVA Knowledge Centre on Intellectual Property & Sustainable Innovation (NOVA IPSI) of the Faculty of Law of Nova University of Lisbon will hold this event at the School of Law of Minho University on April 26, in celebration of World Intellectual Property Day. For more information, click here.

 

Fifteenth Annual Emile Noël Lecture on the State of the (European) Union: “The Court of Justice of the European Union and the Contemporary Challenges to European Integration - Rule of Law, New Technologies and More.”

The Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice at NYU School of Law will be hosting a fireside chat between First Advocate General Maciej Szpunar and co-directors of The Jean Monnet Center, Professors Grainne de Burca and J.H.H. Weiler, on April 3. For more information, click here.

 

IP Awareness Summit® 2023: 'Bridges, Not Barricades'

The 6th annual Intellectual Property Awareness Summit (IPAS 2023) will be held on May 2 in Boston at the Center for Research Innovation at Northeastern University. For information about the programme and attendance, click here.

 

Annual World Congress of the International Literary and Artistic Association

On June 22-23, the French Association for the International Protection of Copyright (AFPIDA) is organising the annual world congress of ALAI (International Literary and Artistic Association) on the theme of literary and artistic property and artificial intelligence. For more information, click here.