{"id":4760,"date":"2016-07-13T22:29:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T22:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/?p=4760"},"modified":"2016-08-08T10:49:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T10:49:33","slug":"emerging-technologies-and-the-future-is-ip-law-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2016\/07\/13\/emerging-technologies-and-the-future-is-ip-law-under-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging Technologies and the Future: Is IP Law under Pressure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2016, CIPPM Co-Director, <a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2014\/04\/23\/dinusha-mendis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Dinusha Mendis<\/a> disseminated her research on the IP Implications of 3D printing in Southampton, Newcastle and London.<\/p>\n<p>Questioning what the future holds for IP law as a result of technologies such as 3D printing, Dr. Mendis spoke about the research she has conducted for the UK Government (UK Intellectual Property Office) as well as next-steps for the future. In doing so, Dr. Mendis also spoke about her RCUK\/AHRC funded research project, <a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2015\/11\/12\/cippm-awarded-rcuk-funding-to-carry-out-further-research-into-the-ip-implications-of-3d-printing\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Going for Gold&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On <strong>5th July 2016,<\/strong> Dr. Mendis was invited to present her research on 3D Printing and IP at a <strong>Cross-Hub Workshop on 3D Printing at Southampton Solent University<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The event titled \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/cross-hub-workshop-3d-printing-development-application-and-its-contribution-to-local-economy-tickets-26280743411\" target=\"_blank\">Cross-Hub Workshop: 3D Printing: Development, Application and its Contribution to Local Economy&#8217;<\/a> hosted speakers from both academia and industry, thereby presenting the opportunity to explore and discuss the digital opportunities and its potential contribution to local\/national economy in the development and application of 3D printing technology.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mendis spoke about her research into the intellectual property implications of 3D printing and presented the <a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2015\/04\/07\/cippm-researchers-publish-reports-for-the-uk-government-detailing-the-ip-implications-of-3d-printing\/\" target=\"_blank\">results from the commissioned research<\/a> carried out for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/intellectual-property-office\" target=\"_blank\">UK Intellectual Property Office<\/a>, which led to the publication of 2 Reports and an Executive Summary in 2015, whilst outlining the research being carried out under the <a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2015\/11\/12\/cippm-awarded-rcuk-funding-to-carry-out-further-research-into-the-ip-implications-of-3d-printing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Going for Gold<\/a> project.<\/p>\n<p>On <strong>11th July 2016<\/strong>, Dr. Mendis was an invited speaker at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/nuls\/research\/groups\/lisgroup\/\" target=\"_blank\">Law, Innovation and Society Research Group<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/nuls\/research\/groups\/\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle Law School<\/a> which hosted a 2-day event on \u2018Fossilisation and Innovation&#8217;<\/strong> exploring law\u2019s response to innovation and emerging technologies. Dr. Mendis&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/media\/wwwnclacuk\/newcastleuniversitylawschool\/files\/Fossilisation%20and%20Innovation%20Schedule.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">presentation explored law\u2019s resilience to dynamic change<\/a>, and questioned whether legislators should <em>adapt<\/em> to innovation whilst <em>adopting<\/em> innovative regulation. The 2 day event began with a keynote speech by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.berkeley.edu\/php-programs\/faculty\/facultyProfile.php?facID=1141\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Dan Faber of UC Berkeley<\/a> and concluded with a keynote speech by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/law\/people\/academic\/kyeung.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Karen Yeung of Kings College London<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On <strong>12th July 2016<\/strong>, Dr. Mendis was an invited speaker at the <strong>\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/infolawcentre.blogs.sas.ac.uk\/2016\/06\/13\/upcoming-event-3d-printing-in-law-and-society\/\" target=\"_blank\">3D Printing in Law and Society<\/a>\u2018 workshop hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/infolawcentre.blogs.sas.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Information, Law and Policy Centre<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ials.sas.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS)<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The event marked the launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/staff.qut.edu.au\/staff\/dalya2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Angela Daly\u2019s<\/a> new book on 3D Printing and commenced with a presentation from Dr. Daly, a research fellow at Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Law, Australia. Dr. Daly\u2019s presentation was followed by Dr. Mendis speaking about the IP implications of 3D printing, highlighting the challenges and opportunities which this technology has brought about, whilst outlining the next steps for 3D printing, from a legal perspective. More information about the event as well a write up about it, can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/infolawcentre.blogs.sas.ac.uk\/tag\/3d-printing\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"entry\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"entry\"><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2016, CIPPM Co-Director, Dr. Dinusha Mendis disseminated her research on the IP Implications of 3D printing in Southampton, Newcastle and London. Questioning what the future holds for IP law as a result of technologies such as 3D printing, Dr. Mendis spoke about the research she has conducted for the UK Government (UK Intellectual&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2016\/07\/13\/emerging-technologies-and-the-future-is-ip-law-under-pressure\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Emerging Technologies and the Future: Is IP Law under Pressure?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":4761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[18,19,2],"class_list":["post-4760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-emergent-technologies","category-focus-areas","tag-focus","tag-highlights","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4760"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4782,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760\/revisions\/4782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}