Bird & Bird’s Annual IP Update (UK) 23 September

What would you like to see at our next annual IP update in September?

Audience: Led by our IP team in the UK, with guest speakers from our international team, this event will focus on UK relevant legal issues and will be of interest to in-house legal advisors whose companies have UK operations or an interest in the UK legal market or general IP trends.

We’d like to ask you to help shape our digital agenda this year, ensuring that we’re focusing on topics that are relevant to your business and that ultimately support you in your function as legal advisors in your organisation. We will be running two webinars this year, which will cover complementing areas of IP law and take place on two separate dates. We’ve identified the following potential topics, but please take a look, vote for what most interests you and do suggest any other topics you’d like to see us cover. We will then share the final agenda in August.

To submit your votes, suggest other topics and register for these sessions please use the RSVP buttons below

Programme

16 September

16:30 - 18:00

Patents & Trade Secrets

  • The pros and cons of the Shorter and Flexible Trial Schemes
  • Doctrine of Equivalents – perspectives from different jurisdictions
  • Patent Litigation moving East
  • Anti-suit injunctions
  • Impact of the pandemic on waiver of patent rights/compulsory licensing
  • Jurisdictional challenges and the position in the UK post-Brexit
  • AI patent disputes – how are the arguments going to develop?

23 September: 

16:30 - 18:00

Trade Marks, Designs & Copyright
 

  • Developments in design law in the UK over the last year as the curtain closes on the Community design regime
  • Developments in trade mark disputes in 2021 – perspectives from different jurisdictions
  • Communication to the public online – how the law has evolved
  • EU Copyright Directive and UK copyright policy post Brexit: A comparison
  • Developments in design law in the UK over the last year – What now?
  • Jurisdictional challenges and the position in the UK post-Brexit
  • Developments relating to AI – where is the plethora of draft legislation taking us?

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