CIPPM: Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management
Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management
Professor Dinusha Mendis has contributed chapters to two new books published by Edward Elgar Publishers and Oxford University Press. The first, published in May 2017, analyses Directive 2014 / 26 / EU on Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights and Multi-Territorial Licensing of Rights in Musical Works for Online Use in the Internal Market… Read more » about Two new book chapters by Dinusha Mendis
Four Visiting Research Fellows joined CIPPM this summer as part of the short-term residential fellowship programme 2017. Tabrez Ebrahim, from California Western School of Law in San Diego (USA), will work on a project on “3D Printing Abundance in a World Without Scarcity”, which investigates the relationships between IP laws, competition, and innovation in response to 3D… Read more » about Visiting research fellows join CIPPM
The growth of 3D technologies impacts on intellectual property (IP) law, leading to a number of implications including copyright, design and licensing issues amongst others. Such challenges question the enforcement, object and purpose of IP laws whilst exploring the opportunities presented through this technology. These were some of the issues which Professor Dinusha Mendis touched… Read more » about IP Law at Crossroads? A Case Study into 3D Scanning, 3D Printing and Mass Customisation
The ALAI Congress 2017 was held at the University of Copenhagen on 18-19 May 2017. Ruth Towse was invited to take part and present in the panel on Economics of copyright. Here is professor Towse’s report on the Congress. The ALAI (International Literary and Artistic Association) 2017 conference, title ‘Copyright, to be or not to be’, met… Read more » about Economics of copyright at the ALAI Congress in Copenhagen
CIPPM fellow Professor Paul Cole, partner at Lucas & Co, has filed a brief as Amicus Curiae to the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit in the case Recognicorp LLC v Nintendo Co., Ltd. The case is about patentability and claim interpretation. Recognicorp, owner of a patent in a system for encoding image data as part… Read more » about Amicus brief field in Recognicorp v Nintendo
