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The annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture is a public lecture which takes place every year in June (usually) in honour of IBIL's founder.
Obtain more information about each of our lectures and (where available), access a recording of the event.
- 16th Annual Lecture (2024) - Gadi Oron
20th June 2024
Artificial Intelligence and Collective Rights Management: the Future or the End?
Delivered by Gadi Oron,听Director General of .听
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- 15th Annual Lecture (2023) - Judge Rian Kalden
21st June 2023
The UPC Sets Sail
Delivered by: Judge Rian Kalden
Vice-President of the Unified Patent Court, former Presiding Judge of the Court of Appeal of The Hague
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- 14th Annual Lecture (2022) - Professor David Vaver
22nd June 2022
Mr Justice Laddie and his intellectual property cases: Of millefeuilles and a fish called Elvis
Delivered by: Professor听David Vaver
Osgoode Hall Law School & University of Oxford (Emeritus)听
Click here to access more information about the event and click , or below, to view a recording of the lecture. You can also read a copy of the speech, which has been published in听Intellectual Property Quarterly, see: D. Vaver, 'The 14th Annual Sir Hugh Laddie lecture: Mr Justice Laddie and his intellectual property cases: of millefeuilles and a fish called Elvis'听[2022] IPQ 119.
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- 13th Annual Lecture (2021) - Professor Barton Beebe
3rd November 2021
Is Europe Running out of Trademarks?
Delivered by: Barton Beebe
John M. Desmarais Professor of Intellectual Property Law at NYU School of Law and a Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU.Click here to access more information about the event,听补苍诲 click听, or below, to watch the lecture recording.听This research builds upon earlier research,听co-authored with Professor Jeanne Fromer, published in the Harvard Law Review in 2018, which you can read , and a subsequent article, published in The Trademark Reporter in 2022, which you can read .听
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- 12th Annual Lecture (2020) - Professor Daniel Gervais
10th November 2020
Machina Sapiens: The Conflation of Natural and Artificial Creativity and Inventiveness
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Delivered by: Daniel Gervais
Director of the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Programme听补苍诲 Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law at Vanderbilt Law SchoolClick here to access more information about the event, or read the paper, ,听based upon Professor Gervais' talk.
- 11th Annual Lecture (2019) - Willem Hoyng
13 June 2019
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No cats and no doctrine of equivalence?
Delivered by: Willem Hoyng
Founding member and partner of European IP Firm, Hoyng Rokh MonegierClick to find out more about the event, and click , or below, to watch the lecture recording.听
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- 10th Annual Lecture (2018) -听HH Michael Fysh QC SC
20 June 2018
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Apologia pro vita sua: A hifi retrospective and a modest prospective
Delivered by: HH Michael Fysh QC SC
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- 9th Annual Lecture (2017) -听Shira Perlmutter
21 June 2017
Towards a Global Copyright Policy?听
Delivered by: Shira Perlmutter
Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs, United States Patent and Trademark OfficeClick here to access more information about the event, and click听, or below,听to watch the lecture recording.
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- 8th Annual Lecture (2016) -听The Hon Dr Annabelle Bennett
22 June 2016
Patents and Populism听
Delivered by:听The Hon Dr Annabelle Bennett AO SC
former Judge of the Federal Court of AustraliaClick here to access more information about the event, and click听, or below, to watch the lecture recording.
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- 7th Annual Lecture (2015) -听Judge Alex Kozinski
24 June 2015
IP and Advocacy
Delivered by:听Judge Alex Kozinski
US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit听
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- 6th Annual Lecture (2014) -听Professor Hugh Hansen
25 June 2014
Culture of the Public Domain: A Good Thing?
Delivered by:听Professor Hugh Hansen
Fordham Law SchoolClick here听to access more information about the event, and click听, or below,听to watch the lecture.
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- 5th Annual Lecture (2013) -听Prof.听Dr听Joachmin Bornkamm
12 June 2013
Community Trade Marks: Are they a Swiss Cheese?
Delivered by:听Professor Dr. Joachmin Bornkamm
German Supreme Court听
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- 4th Annual Lecture (2012) - Chief Judge听Randall Rader
27 June 2012
The Growing Imperative to Internationalise the Law
Delivered by:听Randall Rader
Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit听
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- 3rd Annual Lecture (2011) -听The Hon听Mrs Justice Macken
22 June 2011
Use and Intention to Use in EU Trade Mark Law
Delivered by:听The Hon. Mrs Justice Macken
Irish Supreme Court
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- 2nd Annual Lecture (2010) -听Raimund Lutz
15 June 2010
From National Patent Litigation to a European Patent Court: A Dream, A Wish or Soon Reality?
Delivered by:听Raimund Lutz
President of the German Federal Patent Court, Munich
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- 1st Annual Lecture (2009) -听Lord Hoffmann
16 June 2009
The Function of a Trade Mark: Hugh Laddie and the European Court of Justice
Delivered by:听Lord Hoffmann
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (Law Lord)
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