External Events 2008-2010

During the academic year 2008-2009. Lionel Bently spoke at conferences in Singapore (the Global Forum on Intellectual Property), Leiden and Cambridge (Fordham Conference on International Intellectual Property Law and Policy), as well as at ALAI in London, and gave seminars at Brunel, Bonn, New York University, Queen Mary, and the Intellectual Property Institute, London.

Kathy Liddell gave a talk for the Cambridge Brainbank on the IP policies; a talk on Orphan drugs for the "IP at Emmanuel" group; and a talk on the Health Impact Fund at the meeting organised by Laura Biron/Alex Oliver at Caius.

Members of CIPIL also accepted a number of invitations to speak outside Cambridge during the academic year 2009-2010. Lionel Bently gave the 2009 Stephen Stewart Memorial Lecture in London in November 2009. He also spoke at conferences in Bayreuth, Brisbane, and Berkeley and participated in a Trade Mark scholars Roundtable at De Paul University in April.

Isabella Alexander gave a seminar presentation to the Copyright Society of Australia, Sydney, Australia in March 2010, and at Berkeley in April 2010.

Jennifer Davis gave a talk entitled ‘Why the United Kingdom should have a law against misappropriation’ at the University of Leeds, 16th March 2010.

Catherine Seville gave a paper entitled “The Statute of Anne: rhetoric and reception in the nineteenth centry” at the University of Houston Law Center’s Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law’s “The ©©© Conference: Celebrating Copyright’s tri-Centennial”, held in Sante Fe.