Monday Miscellany

Here is your IPKat weekly summary of IP news, events and opportunities!

Upcoming events and competitions:

UCL IBIL course: Law Drafting and negotiating clinical trial agreements on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th November.
IESEG school of management, Design protection in the fashion field. Letter from different countries, 8 Nov 2024
UCL IBIL seminar: Patent Law – Fit for an (emotional) AI age?: CIIs, Training ANNs and other stories, Wednesday 4th December 2024
UCL IBIL course: AI for Lawyers: Technological Understanding for Compliance and Litigation. In-person course at UCL’s Faculty of Laws (Bloomsbury, London), Monday 16 June - Thursday 19 June 2025.
The SCL AI Group Junior Lawyer Article Competition 2024: The first article competition to be run by the SCL AI Group, open to trainees and other junior lawyers (including students). Submit your article on a topic concerning the intersection of artificial intelligence and law for a chance to be published in the SCL’s Computers & Law magazine and on the SCL’s website. Submissions must be entered by 5:00pm
That Monday feeling

(UK time) on Friday, 6 December 2024.
ALAI European Authors’ Right Award, supported by GESAC. The prize, which amounts €2,000 to the winner and €1,000 to the second winner (if awarded), is awarded annually to the best essay related to authors’ rights/copyright with a European dimension. Open to students and researchers aged under 35. Apply by 15 Nov.

Job opportunities

Max Plank Institute for Innovation and Competition, Senior Research Fellows/Postdocs (m/f/d) in Economics/Management of Innovation. Deadline 15 Nov 2024.
University of Amsterdam Postdoc Information Law at AI, Media & Democracy Lab. Deadline 15 Nov 2024.

In other news, a new report has been published by the EPO looking at patent applications originating from universities. The report finds that University research generated over 10% of all inventions in Europe between 2000 and 2020. The UK IPO’s CEO Adam Williams commented on the contribution of the UK university sector. The UK ranked third in Europe by total number of academic patents after Germany and France. Four British institutions were reported as among the top 25 European universities by number of start-ups filing academic patents: Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial College London and University College London.

Not just any old IPKat ...

* "Most Popular Intellectual Property Law Blawg" of all time according to Justia rankings, November 2024.

* "Most Popular Copyright Blawg" of all time according to Justia rankings, November 2024.

* PermaKat Eleonora Rosati has been quoted, and the IPKat has also been hyperlinked on the New York Times, April 2024.

* "Best UK Intellectual Property blog" of all time according to FeedSpot, January 2024.

* PermaKat Eleonora Rosati and The IPKat are expressly recommended as sources to follow to get an "unstuffy look at IP issues" according to Legal Business, April 2023.

* PermaKat Eleonora Rosati received the 2022 Adepi Award.

* PermaKat Eleonora Rosati listed as one of the World Intellectual Property Review's "Influential Women in IP" of 2020.

* PermaKat Eleonora Rosati listed as one of the Managing Intellectual Property magazine's "Fifty Most Influential People" of 2018.

* IPKat founder and Blogmeister Emeritus Jeremy Phillips listed as one of the Managing Intellectual Property magazine's "Fifty Most Influential People" of 2005, 2011, 2013, and 2014.

* Recommended by the European Patent Office as reading material for candidates for the European Qualifying Examinations, 2013.

* Listed as "Top Legal Blog" in The Times Online, March 2011.

* One of the only two non-US blogs listed in the Blawg 2010 ABA Journal 100.

* Number 1 in the 2010 Top Copyright Blog list compiled by the Copyright Litigation Blog, July 2010.

* Selected by the United States Library of Congress for inclusion in its historic collections of Internet materials related to Legal Blawgs as of 2010.

* Top Patent Blog poll 2009: 3rd out of 50 in the "Favourite Patent Blog" poll and 2nd out of 50 in the "Most-read" poll.

* ComputerWeekly IT Law and Governance Blog of the Year, 20 August 2008.

* Best of the Blogs, Times Online, 21 August 2008.

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