CIPIL Annual Spring Conference

The CIPIL Spring Conference is held annually in March. The conference aims to bring together academics, practitioners and students to discuss current issues in intellectual property law.

Forthcoming conference

The 2026 spring conference will take place on Saturday 21 March at the Cambridge Law Faculty and will be on 'Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights'.  Booking will open shortly. 

Previous conferences

• CIPIL spring conference 2025 - Is AI transforming IP?
• CIPIL spring conference 2024 - Data Protection Reform 
• CIPIL spring conference 2023 - Bill Cornish and the Making of Today’s Intellectual Property System
• 2022:  CIPIL was the co-sponsor of the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Conference which was held at the Faculty of Law here in Cambridge. 
• 2021: Sadly, because of constraints put in place as a result of the global pandemic, the 2021 CIPIL Annual Spring Conference did not take place. 
• CIPIL spring conference 2020 - Is IP Good for Our Health?
• CIPIL spring conference 2019 - 'Mens Rea in IP: Knowledge, Intent and Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights'
• CIPIL spring conference 2018 - Intermediary Liability and Responsibility
• CIPIL spring conference 2017 - Intellectual Property and Human Rights
• CIPIL spring conference 2016 - The Essence of IP: Scope of Protection
• CIPIL spring conference 2015 - Intellectual Property: Use It or Lose it?
• CIPIL spring conference 2014 - Exhaustion without Exasperation: Intellectual Property Imports and Border Measures
• CIPIL spring conference 2013 - What's New in IP Remedies? 
• CIPIL spring conference 2012 - Employees and Intellectual Property Rights
• CIPIL spring conference 2011 - Intellectual Property and Private International Law
• CIPIL spring conference 2010  - Widening the Net: Contributory Liability for Facilitating, Authorising and Inducing Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights
• CIPIL spring conference 2009 - Unfair Competition - Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?
• CIPIL spring conference 2008 - Trade Mark Dilution: Putting An End to (all the) Confusion
• CIPIL spring conference 2007 - Breach of Confidence and Trade Secrets: Domestic Developments and Comparative Perspectives
• CIPIL spring conference 2006 - Privacy and Personality Rights in Comparative Perspective