UCL IBIL

UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law

[UCL Faculty of Laws @UCLLaws]

🔎 How should trade mark law evolve in an AI-driven, sustainable economy?

Join us for the @UCL_IBIL 2026 Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture from Prof Martin Senftleben (University of Amsterdam) for this cutting-edge discussion.

📅 24 June 2026 | 6pm
🎟️ Book now: https://t.co/rJMLJsBqp9

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

As the new academic year gets under way, IBIL has published its Annual Report for the academic year 2024/2025. Plenty more in the pipeline for 2025/2026. You can read more about what we have been up to here: https://t.co/4InOxtO9En.

[UCL Faculty of Laws @UCLLaws]

Last month @ucl_ibil welcomed The Rt Hon Sir Christopher Floyd, Former Lord Justice of Appeal, to deliver the 17th Annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture. His talk on patent law harmonisation is available on the UCL Laws YouTube channel: https://t.co/KicJ81OSHT 📹

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

📢 2025 Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture with The Rt Hon Sir Christopher Floyd – Patent Law Harmonisation: How we got this far.
📅 24 June 2025 @ 6pm
🏦 Senate House, University of London
🎟️In person + online
🔗https://t.co/ZJu05ydgvD

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

Wishing best of luck to @UCLLaws students Kieran Yeo & Guanchen Zhou, who are on their way to Geneva to compete in the final rounds of @WIPO Inaugural IP Moot Court Competition next week! ⚖️#AllRoadsLeadToGeneva.
https://t.co/2gojTaYqaR

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

We're looking forward to @UCamCIPIL's Spring Conference tomorrow - "Is AI transforming IP?". Speakers include our own @alinatrapova.
More details: https://t.co/PkQOoJJZfy.

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

Do join us, and @IPDraughts, at @UCLLaws for our UK Universities’ IP and Spinout Policies conference on 12 May - full details👇:
https://t.co/aKzwe6l26Q

[Mark Anderson @IPDraughts]

https://t.co/aSCc1aEx1D

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

Wishing best of luck to the @UCLLaws LLM students Victoria Browell (left) and April Wells (right) - who are on their way to Oxford to compete in the oral rounds of the @OxIPMoot this week! ⚖️
https://t.co/i7G5BNoruR

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

Join us @UCLLaws for our Annual Copyright seminar: '#Copyright Law and #AI: Time to Revisit Copyright Registration?'
Our panel will evaluate the pros & cons of registries, from transatlantic & EU perspectives.
🗓️ 14 May @ 6pm
For full information, see:
https://t.co/fybYqxqA41

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

It seems to have been a busy year on the trade mark front!
Join us and @MarquesIP on 25 March @UCLLaws to meet and question some of the judges that are deciding our trade mark disputes.
Full details at: https://t.co/kFjtSAgq7Y.

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

Don't miss your opportunity to comment on the future shape of UK design law. What matters more - speed/low cost or validity? Choice of options or simplicity? What features should design law protect? Have your say! 🫵

[Intellectual Property Office UK @The_IPO]

Calling all designers: here’s a chance to shape the future of design IP law in the UK!

We need your expertise to ensure that IP laws effectively protect your creative work.

Share your priorities in our Design Protection Survey [link]: https://t.co/dbDydqeCtH

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

Whether post-sale confusion should be actionable is a current hot topic in UK TM law. Still a few places left at our event discussing it next week.
It's also the subject of a new article by Prof Ilanah Fhima published in @JIPLP which you can access here: https://t.co/bLfu0EcP2C.

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

Join our Annual Brand lecture on post-sale confusion & targeting - with a transatlantic expert panel, inc including Daniel Alexander KC, Christine Farley, Ilanah Fhima, & Jeremy Sheff. In-person & online tickets available.
🗓️ 26 Feb @ 6pm

More info: https://t.co/2cPQfbBJIl

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

Join us on 18 March @UCLLaws for an update on developments in Standard Essential #Patents, hosted by @UCL_CLES. The speaker is Dr @igornikolic17 , Nokia's Director of IP Policy (a former IBIL PhD Scholarship recipient🧑‍🎓) with @IoannisLianos chairing.
See: https://t.co/wXDcYQRgEU

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

We are growing! @UCLLaws is looking to recruit a Lecturer or Associate Prof in IP/IT Law!

Applications close on 28 Feb. Full details of the positions: https://t.co/4nHTendQTF

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

Book your place at our Annual Privacy Lecture: 'Journalism, Politics & British Journalism' on 12 Feb @ 6pm @UCLLaws.

Find out how to protect the identity of sources when reporting news and investigating matters of public interest. For more info, see: https://t.co/J8BXVgN9ui

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

Join our Annual Brand lecture on post-sale confusion & targeting - with a transatlantic expert panel, inc including Daniel Alexander KC, Christine Farley, Ilanah Fhima, & Jeremy Sheff. In-person & online tickets available.
🗓️ 26 Feb @ 6pm

More info: https://t.co/2cPQfbBJIl

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

If you missed our Patents and AI event earlier in the month, or simply want to watch it again, then you can find the link to the recording below.

https://t.co/TmkX6R1H1O

Watch this space for more IP-related events in 2025!

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

Still a few in-person tickets left for our #patents and #AI event next week, or register to join the livestream!

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

Join us on 4 Dec @ 6pm @UCLLaws for our Annual Innovation seminar: Patent Law – Fit for an (emotional) AI age?: CIIs, Training ANNs & other stories.

Our expert panel includes VirginiaDriver, Matt Hervey, Michael Prior & Noam Shemtov. For full details: https://t.co/VaCpzztMBI.

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

The recording of this event is now available to view online: https://t.co/fOrM0MxrFK.

Thanks again to @CITMAuk for your support!

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

On 7 Nov, IBIL & @CITMAuk will join forces to reflect on thirty years of the UK TM Act. Join us at 6pm @UCLLaws (or online), for 'UK Trade Marks Act 1994 at 30 - Going Forward, Looking Backwards: Lessons from Harmonisation.'

For more info: https://t.co/z5cWdlef1O.

[UCL IBIL @ucl_ibil]

Next week, Ilanah Fhima will be discussing her research on minority rights and trade mark law's 'average consumer' - please join us!

[CREATe @copyrightcentre]

The CREATe Trade Mark Seminar Series is back!

Seminar 1: Innovative Methodologies in Researching Current Trade Mark Law
📅 Thursday, 21st November 2024
🕒 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (UK Time)
🌐 Online
🎙 Prof. Ilanah Fhima, @ucl_ibil, @ucl

Seminar 2: Trade Mark History
📅 Thursday, 5th December 2024
🕒 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (UK Time)
🌐 Online
🎙 Dr. @andrewvent, School of Communication, @IllinoisStateU, USA

Zoom links for the seminars will be sent out a few days before the events to all members of The CREATe Trade Mark Seminar Series mailing list. No RSVP is required.

To join the mailing list, please contact @drelena_cooper at: [email protected]

Read more here: https://t.co/ssoLwShm1n