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CIPPM welcomes Prof Cristiani Fontanela and Dr Rossana Ducato

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CIPPM is delighted to welcome Professor Cristiani Fontanela as Visiting Professor and Dr Rossana Ducato as Visiting Fellow. Professor Fontanela and Dr Ducato joined CIPPM in December 2024 and January 2024 respectively. They will both be working at CIPPM until April 2024. Professor Fontanela researches law and innovation, focusing on industrial property, the university-business relationship,… Read more » about CIPPM welcomes Prof Cristiani Fontanela and Dr Rossana Ducato

Roger Brownsword: “Technology, Humans, and Discontent with the Law: The Quest for Better Governance”

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Roger Brownsword, Technology, Humans, and Discontent with the Law: The Quest for Better Governance (Routledge, 2024) 240 pp This book analyses discontent with law and assesses the prospect of better governance by technology. In the first part of the book, where the context is ‘low tech’, the range of discontent with law is examined; the underlying… Read more » about Roger Brownsword: “Technology, Humans, and Discontent with the Law: The Quest for Better Governance”

Dinusha Mendis and Rosa Ballardini: “Intellectual Property Rights at Crossroads: The Copyright and Patent Implications relating to 3D printing”

Posted . Filed under Creative Industries, Emergent Technologies, Publications, UK EU IP Policy.

Mendis D and Ballardini R., ‘Intellectual Property Rights at Crossroads: The Copyright and Patent Implications relating to 3D printing’ in Pei E et al (eds), Springer Handbook of Additive Manufacturing (Springer; 2023), pp. 87-99 Through an analysis of copyright and patent laws, this chapter considers the implications arising from 3D printing and 3D scanning. In… Read more » about Dinusha Mendis and Rosa Ballardini: “Intellectual Property Rights at Crossroads: The Copyright and Patent Implications relating to 3D printing”

Keynote Speech at the I Congress on Re-thinking the Paradigms of Law

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On 25 October 2023, the I Congress on “Re-thinking the Paradigms of Law on the Basis of Innovation, Technology and the Economy” featured a keynote by Dr Suelen Carls and Professor Mohamed Amal, examining how Intellectual Property (IP) law and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) interact in Latin America’s evolving landscape. Their presentation emphasised that IP… Read more » about Keynote Speech at the I Congress on Re-thinking the Paradigms of Law