Friday Fantasies

January may be over, but the IP events keep coming!

Events

On the 22nd of February, UNION-IP is hosting a round-table at the German Patent Office in Munich. More information can be found here on the UNION-IP’s webpage.

On the 9th of March 2019 the Centre for Intellectual Property & Information Law (CIPIL) Annual Spring Conference 2019 is taking place at the University of Cambridge, Law Faculty. Further information can be found here or by contacting cipil@law.cam.ac.uk.

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On the 28th of March the UCL Institute of Brand & Innovation Law is hosting an evening seminar on the topic of “Exhaustion of Intellectual Property Rights”. Tickets and more information can be found here.

On April 11th – 12th 2019 the European Patent Office is hosting the “East meets West” forum on patent information from Asia. Registration is open until the 20th of March. More information can be found on the programme here or by contacting asiainfo@epo.org for further information.

The Law School of the University of Lisbon and the Portuguese Society for Intellectual Property Law is jointly promoting the Lisbon International Intellectual Property Summer Course, to be held from the 1st to 12th July 2019. Registrations are now open with a 10% early bird discount available until the 1st April 2019. More information here.

From the 1st to the 5th of July 2019, the annual Cyber Security Summer School (C3S) will be taking place in Estonia with a focus on blockchain and their impact on digital transformation. The Summer School even includes a guided tour of the Estonian National Museum on the 3rd of July! Registration deadline is the 30th of April; more information can be found here or by contacting Mr Madis Raaper at madis.raaper@ut.ee.

Call for papers

The School of Law of the University of Geneva (UNIGE) is collaborating with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and World Trade Organisation (WTO) in the 2019 IP Researchers Europe Conference (IPRE). The event itself takes place on Friday 28th June to Saturday 29th June 2019, at WIPO and WTO respectively. There is also a call for applications, with the 25th of March as a deadline. More details here.

The European Policy for Intellectual Property Association (EPIP) has announced its 14th Annual Conference from the 11th till the 13th September 2019 in ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Coinciding with this is their Call for Papers, the deadline for which is April 7th. More information regarding the conference can be found here and details of the call for papers are found here.

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