The CIPIL Intellectual Property Seminar Series brings together specialist speakers to discuss prevailing issues in relation to copyright, patents, trademarks, design rights, and other subjects.
The Centre brings together a group of legal academics already recognised for their historical and inter-disciplinary, as well as doctrinal, research. Drawing on the resources of Cambridge University, CIPIL is ideally positioned to carry out and promote well-informed interdisciplinary work.
Subject to speaker consent, the lecture component for each seminar will be made available in audio via the CIPIL Intellectual Property Seminar Series podcast or in video on YouTube. Any Q&A or discussion sections are typically not included to encourage frank and open discussion.
You can subscribe for an audio feed on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or most podcast services for automatic download, or an RSS feed is available for use on other platforms.
Seminar programme
All seminars take place at 5.30pm unless otherwise stated.
Audio recordings of most of these events are available on Captivate (and most popular podcast apps) or Apple Podcasts/iTunes.
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Easter Term 2026 |
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| 14 May 2026 G24/Zoom |
Professor Lisa P. Ramsey |
'Trademarks and Free Speech: Conflicts and Resolutions' |
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LentTerm 2026 |
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| 29 January 2026 G26/Zoom |
Tim Pitt-Payne KC |
'Should we care about GDPR Article 22?' |
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| 4 February 2026 G26/Zoom |
Professor Jon Penney |
CIPIL/CPL Lunchtime seminar: 'Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age' |
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| 5 February 2026 G26/Zoom |
Dr Poorna Mysoor |
'Property Framework and Copyright Maximalism' |
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| 12 February 2026 G26/Zoom |
Dr Svitlana Lebedenko |
'A Technology Perspective on Intellectual Property' |
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| 16 February 2026 G24 5pm |
Professor Lionel Bently (University of Cambridge) / Professor Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan (University of Cambridge) / Professor Bhamati Viswanathan (Columbia Law School) |
'Governing AI and IP: A Comparative Approach' | Nor recorded | ||
| 5 March 2026 G26/Zoom |
Dr Christopher Stothers |
'Cross-Border Patent Enforcement: Law and Practice' |
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| 12 March 2026 G26/Zoom |
Associate Professor David A. Simon |
'Copyright, Moral Rights, and Subjective Authorial Harm' |
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MichaelmasTerm 2025 |
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16 October 2025 |
Professor Andrew Christie |
'Patents for Wellbeing' |
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| 23 October 2025 G24/Zoom |
Professor Julie Cohen |
'Governing After the Digital Phase Shift' | Not recorded | ||
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30 October 2025 |
Dr Yin Harn Lee |
'Rethinking the 'Copy' in Copyright' |
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6 November 2025 |
Professor Bhamati Viswanathan |
'Transformative Landscapes: How Generative AI is Shaping The Contours of US Copyright Law and Policy' |
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| 13 November 2025 G24/Zoom |
Dr S. Che Ekaratne |
'Post-Mortem Passing Off in Comparative Context' |
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| 20 November 2025 G24/Zoom |
Professor Lilian Edwards |
'Faithful or Traitor? The Right of Explanation in a Generative AI World' |
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For further information about the seminars, please email: cipil@law.cam.ac.uk
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