Monday Miscellany

Here is your IPKat weekly summary of IP news, events and opportunities! 

Upcoming events and competitions:

• UCL IBIL course: Law Drafting and negotiating clinical trial agreements on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th November.
• IESEG school of management, Design protection in the fashion field. Letter from different countries, 8 Nov 2024
• UCL IBIL seminar: Patent Law – Fit for an (emotional) AI age?: CIIs, Training ANNs and other stories, Wednesday 4th December 2024
• UCL IBIL course: AI for Lawyers: Technological Understanding for Compliance and Litigation. In-person course at UCL’s Faculty of Laws (Bloomsbury, London), Monday 16 June - Thursday 19 June 2025.
• The SCL AI Group Junior Lawyer Article Competition 2024: The first article competition to be run by the SCL AI Group, open to trainees and other junior lawyers (including students). Submit your article on a topic concerning the intersection of artificial intelligence and law for a chance to be published in the SCL’s Computers & Law magazine and on the SCL’s website. Submissions must be entered by 5:00pm

  

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  (UK time) on Friday, 6 December 2024.
• ALAI European Authors’ Right Award, supported by GESAC. The prize, which amounts €2,000 to the winner and €1,000 to the second winner (if awarded), is awarded annually to the best essay related to authors’ rights/copyright with a European dimension. Open to students and researchers aged under 35. Apply by 15 Nov. 

Job opportunities

• Max Plank Institute for Innovation and Competition, Senior Research Fellows/Postdocs (m/f/d) in Economics/Management of Innovation. Deadline 15 Nov 2024.
• University of Amsterdam Postdoc Information Law at AI, Media & Democracy Lab. Deadline 15 Nov 2024.

In other news, a new report has been published by the EPO looking at patent applications originating from universities. The report finds that University research generated over 10% of all inventions in Europe between 2000 and 2020. The UK IPO’s CEO Adam Williams commented on the contribution of the UK university sector. The UK ranked third in Europe by total number of academic patents after Germany and France. Four British institutions were reported as among the top 25 European universities by number of start-ups filing academic patents: Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial College London and University College London.