Intellectual Property Discussion Group
About the Group
The Intellectual Property Discussion Group provides a forum to facilitate the exchange of ideas between students, faculty members and practitioners on issues touching upon the regulation of intellectual property. The group is open to cross-disciplinary participation and is primarily intended as a forum to allow students to present their work and discuss recent intellectual property law developments in an informal environment. Intellectual Property Discussion Group meetings begin with a 20-30 minute presentation followed by discussion. The Intellectual Property Discussion Group meets fortnightly in even weeks of term on Tuesdays from 12.30pm to 2.00pm.
Convenor: Daniela Simone
Senior member: Graeme Dinwoodie
Recent papers and other downloads
Previous Group Events
May 2013
Tuesday 14 May 2013
- The Application of Copyright to Cultural Heritage: Who owns folklore?
- Speaker: Steven Collins, University of Glasgow
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room D at 1230
Tuesday 7 May
- The intersection of freedom of expression and copyright in Canada
- Speaker: Graham Reynolds, Assistant Professor, Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University and D.Phil candidate, St. Peter’s College (University of Oxford)
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 1230
April 2013
Tuesday 30 April
- The Distinctive Function of Authorship
- Speaker: Dr Jesus Gonzalez, Bournemouth University
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 1230
March 2013
Tuesday 5 March
- Account of profits for breach of contract – Does it matter if the contract serves to protect (intellectual) property rights?
- Speaker: Dr Franz Hofmann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich), currently visiting OIPRC
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 13:00
February 2013
Friday 22 February
- Philosophy, intellectual property and the 'metaphysics of law'
- Speaker: Dr Laura Biron, University of Cambridge
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 13:00
Tuesday 5 February
- Pirates at the Tea Party? Copyright’s Strange Bedfellows
- Speaker: Ms Barbara Lauriat, King's College, London
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 13:00
January 2013
Tuesday 22 January
- Reframing Property in the Age of Genetics
- Speaker: Prof Nils Hoppe, Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences, Leibniz University, Hannover
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 13:00
November 2012
Tuesday 27 November 2012
- Images and desires: ownership, anxiety and the art of persuasion
- Speaker: Dr Julia Craig-McFeely, The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 13:00
Tuesday 13 November
- When is “Good” Good Enough? The Online Distribution of Copyright Works and Copyright Exhaustion
- Speaker: Professor Pascale Chapdelaine
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 1300
October 2012
Tuesday 30 October
- Fairness in competition: is it desirable, definable, enforceable?
- Speaker: Professor Christopher Wadlow, University of East Anglia
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 1300
Tuesday 16 October
- Copyright law in the realm of Theatre
- Speaker: Dr Luke McDonagh, LSE
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 1300
June 2012
Wednesday 6 June
- Designing Effective Remedies for Internet Wrongdoing
- Speaker: Jaani Riordan, Magdalen College
Oxford Law Faculty Law Board Room at 1300
May 2012
Tuesday 15 May
- Intellectual Property enforcement: The practical side of IP rights
- Change of time
Speaker: Rosie Burbidge, Rouse
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 1000
Tuesday 8 May
- Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources
- Speaker: Professor Brett Frischmann
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 1300
Tuesday 1 May
- Copyright and Social Norms: The Case of Hebrew Authors in Mandate Palestine
- Speaker: Professor Michael Birnhack
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 1300
March 2012
Tuesday 6 March
- Moral Rights and Joint Authorship: Film, Indigenous Art, and other Complex Cases?
- Speaker: Dr Mira T. Sundara Rajan
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 1245
February 2012
Tuesday 7 February
- Startup Licensing in the Shadow of R & D Competition
- Speaker: Dr Andreas Panagopoulos, Department of Economics, University of Crete
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room D at 1245
Thursday 2 February
- Plain talking about plain packaging laws
- Speaker: Dr Andrew Higgins (Oxford), Professor Derrick Wyatt (Oxford), Associate Professor Robert Burrell (University of Queensland)
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 1200
January 2012
Tuesday 24 January
- Counterfeiting and Anti-Counterfeiting in China
- Speaker: Professor Daniel Chow, The Ohio State University
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 1245
November 2011
Tuesday 29 November 2011
- The Confusion Trap: Rethinking a Parody Defense in Trademark Law
- Speaker: David A. Simon, University of Cambridge
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 1245
Tuesday 15 November
- Making New Law: Test Cases and Novel Points
- Speaker: Michael Edenborough QC, Serle Court
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 1245
October 2011
Tuesday 18 October
- IP Abuse Prevention and Competition Laws: A Comparative Study of Australia, China and Japan
- Speaker: Dr George Yijun Tian, University of Technology (Sydney, Australia), visiting research fellow at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 1245
June 2011
Tuesday 21 June
- Graffiti rules: Parallel norms of intellectual property in public space
- Speaker: Marta Iljadica, King's College, London
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room C at 13:00
May 2011
Tuesday 24 May
- Does it matter whether intellectual property is really property?
- Speaker: Ben McFarlane, Simon Douglas, Jaani Riordan, Quentin Cregan
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 13:00
Tuesday 10 May
- IPR and Access to Cultural Diversity: Variable Geometry in Copyright Duration?
- Speaker: Dr Christophe Germann
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 13:00
March 2011
Tuesday 8 March
- Recent Developments in the Patenting of Medical Technology at the European Patent Office
- Speaker: Adrian Bradley, Cleveland
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 13:00
February 2011
Tuesday 22 February
- The ‘Objectives’ and ‘Principles’ of the TRIPS Agreement: express recognition and increasing relevance beyond the WTO
- Speaker: Alison Slade
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 13:00
Tuesday 8 February
- IPR Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry: An Empirical Study of Effects on Stock Market Valuations and Implications for Financing Innovation
- Speaker: Carl Benedikt Frey
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 13:00
January 2011
Tuesday 25 January
- How to pay for the news: a question of copyright or business model?
- Speaker: Dr Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb, Saïd Business School
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 13:00
November 2010
Tuesday 30 November 2010
- A Geology of Terroir – Wine Appellations in France
- Speaker: Dr Dev Gangjee, London School of Economics
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 15:00-16:30
Tuesday 16 November
- Law vs Practice: Human gene patents and genetic testing in the UK
- Speaker: Dr Naomi Hawkins, University of Exeter
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 13:00-14:30
Tuesday 2 November
- Digital knock-offs, ceded sovereignty and international law: the repercussions of SAS Institute Inc. v. World Programming Ltd
- Speaker: Quentin Cregan, St Hildas College, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Room 19 at 13:00-14:30
October 2010
Tuesday 19 October
- Pirates, Porn and Privacy: What the Digital Economy Act means for Britain
- Speaker: Jaani Riordan, Magdalen College, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 12:30
March 2004
Monday 1 March 2004
