The IPKat is turning 15 ... and is inviting you to the birthday party!
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| It's (Kat)party time!! |
To celebrate the best of the teen age years of the IP community's favourite blog, join us on Monday, 2 July at Bird&Bird in London offices for an afternoon of celebrations and discussions about the recent past, present and future of this great area of the law!
For those attending there will be also a GREAT surprise!
For those attending there will be also a GREAT surprise!
Here's the programme of the day:
14:00-14:30 - Registration
14:30-14:40 - Welcome
14:40-16:20 - The past 15 years and the next 15 years of IP rights
Patents & SPCs
Trade secrets
SEP/FRAND
Trade marks
Copyright
Intermediary injunctions
SEP/FRAND
Trade marks
Copyright
Intermediary injunctions
16:20-16:50 - Coffee break
16:50-18:30 - Focus on selected issues: the next 15 years
How should and will industry change?
How should and will the IP bench change?
How will the study of IP change?
How will the practice of IP change?
Internationalization and IP and what effects Brexit might have
How does IP blogging fit into all of this?
How should and will the IP bench change?
How will the study of IP change?
How will the practice of IP change?
Internationalization and IP and what effects Brexit might have
How does IP blogging fit into all of this?
18:30 - Conference ends
18:45 onwards - Drinks and canapés
Confirmed speakers (in alphabetical order) include:
- Sir Richard Arnold (High Court of Justice of England and Wales)
- Prof Lionel Bently (University of Cambridge)
- Sir Colin Birss (High Court of Justice of England and Wales)
- Dr Hayleigh Bosher (IPKat and Brunel University)
- Brian Cordery (Bristows)
- Sir Christopher Floyd (Court of Appeal of England and Wales)
- John Halton (Financial Times)
- Myles Jelf (Bristows)
- Sir David Kitchin (Court of Appeal of England and Wales)
- Ros Lynch (UK Intellectual Property Office)
- Charlotte May QC (8 New Square)
- Darren Meale (Simmons & Simmons)
- Amanda Michaels (Hogarth Chambers)
- Jelf Myles (Bristows)
- Jane Mutimear (Bird&Bird)
- Dr Frantzeska Papadopoulou (IPKat and Stockholm University)
- Lauri Rechardt (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry)
- Dr Eleonora Rosati (IPKat and University of Southampton)
- Eibhlin Vardy (IPKat and Stephenson Harwood)
- Richard Vary (Bird&Bird)
- Annsley Merelle Ward (IPKat and Bristows)
- Kiaron Whitehead (British Phonographic Industry)
Also in attendance (and speaking) from the IPKat team: Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo, Ieva Giedrimaite, Rose Hughes, Tian Lu, Nedim Malovic, Cecilia Sbrolli, and Nicola Searle.
More speakers to be announced soon!
Further details and registration here: but hurry up because places are limited!!
