Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law

Seminar Programme for 2013-2014

Audio recordings of most of these events are available on Captivate (and most popular podcast apps) or Apple Podcasts/iTunes.

Easter Term
Date	Speaker	Title	Recording
24 April 2014	Professor Kevin Outterson Professor of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights, Boston University and Visiting Fellow at Chatham House, Centre on Global Health Security	"The legal ecology of resistance, or why normal IP rules shouldn't apply to antibiotics"
1 May 2014	Simon Davies D Young & Co Julian Potter WP Thompson	"Software patents - legal and commercial perspectives"

Lent Term
Date	Speaker	Title	Recording
30 January 2014	Julius Stobbs Stobbs IP	"What makes a trade mark inherently distinctive?"
13 February 2014	Christopher Rennie-Smith Board of Appeal - European Patent Office	"Bioscience, patent law, and the generally-overlooked requirement of industrial application"

Michaelmas Term
Date	Speaker	Title	Recording
24 October 2013	Dr Ge Chen Research Associate, CRASSH and CIPIL	"From Shevill to Pickney: How the European Courts Balance Information Regarding Rights in Internet Jurisdiction"
31 October 2013	Professor Sam Ricketson Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School	"The Past and Present of the Paris Convention"
14 November 2013	Dr Eleonora Rosati Research Associate, CRASSH and CIPIL	"If You Expect Nothing From Anybody, You're Never Disappointed: Orphan Works in the EU and UK"
22 November 2013	Professor Jane Ginsburgh Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law	"Vestigial Copyright Categories and Copyright-Avoiding Business Models"	Not recorded
5 December 2013	Professor Alice Lee Associate Professor, Hong Kong University	"An exception for parody - A common concern in the recent copyright consultation in UK and Hong Kong"
6 December 2013	Professor Mark McKenna Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development, University of Notre Dame Law School	"Defensive Doctrines in Trademark Law"	Not recorded

For further information about the seminars, please email: cipil@law.cam.ac.uk