Stavroula Karapapa: “Introducing the ‘new public’ into copyright infringement”April 23, 2015-Public lectures series 2015 Thursday 23 April, from 6 pm in EB306 This talk will discuss what amounts to an actionable communication of copyright works to the public. Recent rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union uphold that infringement takes place not only where an unauthorised communication reaches the public but also... Read more »
Rafael García Pérez: “The scope of injunctions in intellectual property cases”April 21, 2015-Research Seminar Tuesday 21 April, 4pm, Room EB205 The injunction, being a remedy grounded in equity, has a discretionary nature in English law, in intellectual property as well as in other areas of law. However, intellectual property remedies have been harmonised by Directive 2004/48 on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights. The seminar will consider... Read more »
Jennifer Davis: “The problem with the average consumer in European trade mark law”March 19, 2015-Public Lectures Series 2015 Thursday 19 March, from 6 pm in EB306 The talk will consider the problem of identifying the average consumer in EU trade mark law. It will suggest that his or her position in case law relating to both distinctiveness and confusion is increasingly uncertain and that explanations for this uncertainty might... Read more »
Nicola Coppola: Can GIs be used as a marketing tool?February 19, 2015-Thursday 19 February 2015, 9:00 a.m, Room PG22 The relationship between IP and Communication is part of the collaboration within the Departments of the newly created Faculty of Media and Communication. In this context, Nicola Coppola gives insights on Geographical Indications (GIs) protection from a legal perspective, tailored to the interests of MA Media and... Read more »
Marcella Favale: “A Wii too stretched? DRM protection of game consoles”February 18, 2015-Faculty Seminar of Marcella Favale This seminar comments the case C-355/12 – Nintendo v. PC Box. Despite the fact that the difficult conditions imposed by the Court in practice will disrupt the implementation of DRM, Marcella Favale questions the extension of the protection of TPMs implemented on gaming consoles. She also argues that there are... Read more »
Marco Ricolfi: Trade mark licensing under EU lawApril 5, 2014-Professor Marco Ricolfi (University of Turin) gives a keynote lecture to the students of the PG Cert IP on Trade mark licensing under EU law. Professor Ricolfi is a leading expert in EU trade mark and copyright law, a practicing lawyer and co-founder or NEXA Centre for Internet and Society. The event is free and... Read more »
Ilanah Simon Fhima (UCL) The confusion test in European trade mark lawApril 3, 2014-Spring lectures series Thursday 3 April 2014 6pm Executive Business Centre (EB206), Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth BH8 8EB The seminar presents the preliminary results of a large empirical study on the application of the “confusion” test for trade mark infringement in Europe. Key objectives of the study, which is being carried out in collaboration with Dr... Read more »