In January 2015, Dr. Dinusha Mendis, Associate Professor in Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) in the Faculty of Media and Communications was awarded a period of research leave funded by the Fusion Investment Fund which commenced on 1 January 2015. The study leave was granted to further Dr…. Read more » about A Reflection on Research Leave at University of Tasmania Australia and Stanford Law School California
Emergent Technologies
CIPPM Researchers Present at the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Conference
The 10th Annual Conference of European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) was hosted by CREATe, the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy at the University of Glasgow, on 2 and 3 September 2015. Opening the conference in the beautiful setting of the Chapel, Professor Ian Hargreaves, Professor of Digital Economy and the author… Read more » about CIPPM Researchers Present at the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Conference
Dinusha Mendis Invited to Speak at Plymouth Law School
On 28 August 2015, Dr. Dinusha Mendis was an invited speaker at Plymouth Law School’s one-day workshop. The event titled, ‘Valuing Knowledge, Creativity and Innovation: Relating Corporate Social Responsibility to Copyright Law’ considered the prospect of practising Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in relation to copyright, where similar ideas of corporate social awareness have already applied to other… Read more » about Dinusha Mendis Invited to Speak at Plymouth Law School
Dinusha Mendis presents at the 34th Annual ECTA Conference 2015, Hamburg
On 12 June 2015, CIPPM Co-Director, Dr. Dinusha Mendis presented at the European Communities Trade Mark Association 34th Annual Conference in Hamburg. The Conference took place from 10-13 June 2015. At the 2015 Conference, the ECTA organisers included a new copyright panel and invited Dr. Mendis to speak on the copyright implications of 3D printing…. Read more » about Dinusha Mendis presents at the 34th Annual ECTA Conference 2015, Hamburg
Reports for the UK Government on IP Implications of 3D Printing
CIPPM researchers Dr. Dinusha Mendis and Dr. Davide Secchi together with Dr. Phil Reeves of Econolyst Ltd have published a sequence of three reports on the intellectual property implications of 3D printing resulting from a project commissioned by the UK Intellectual Property Office. In 2012, the Big Innovation Centre, in their Report ‘Three Dimensional Policy:… Read more » about Reports for the UK Government on IP Implications of 3D Printing





