Annual Hugh Laddie Lecture Series
Annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lectures
The annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture is a public lecture which takes place every year in June (usually) in honour of IBIL's founder.
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2025 - Patent Law Harmonisation: How we got this far
2024 - Patent Law: Fit for an (emotional) AI age?
2024 - 10x Genomics v Nanostring: How are novelty and inventive step to be assessed?
2023 - EPO and UPC: Friends or Foes?
2023 - The UPC Sets Sail
2021 - AI: Reinventing Inventorship?
2020 - Regeneron - Good or Bad?
2020 - COVID-19: IP Law, Policy and Practice I - IP Rights for Treating, Diagnosing and Preventing COVID-19
2019 – No Cats and No Doctrine of Equivalence?
2018 - Pregabalin: Where stands plausibility, Swiss-form claims, late amendment and more?
2017 - Equivalents: K = Na. Is the genie out of the bottle?
2016 - Do Patents have a ‘Chilling Effect’ on the Incentives for Research and Development?
2019 - Patents vs Open Innovation: Incentivising 'Medicines for the Many'
2016 - Do Patents have a Chilling Effect on the Incentives for R&D?
2012 - Patents Stop People Doing Things? So Why Are They a Good Thing?
2024 - UK Trade Maraks Act at 30: Going Forward, Looking Backwards
2024 - Question the Trade Mark Judges
2024 - Thinking Clearly about Trade Mark Clutter
2023 - 3D Shape Marks - a 360 Degree Analysis
2023 - Question the Trade Mark Judges
2022 – Naughty Trade Marks and Greedy Owners
2021 – Is Europe Running out of Trade Marks?
2021 - Perfecting Pharmaceutical Trade Mark Protection: Pinnacles and Pitfalls
2020 - Question the Trade Mark Judges
2020 - What is the Function of Functionality in Trade Mark Law?
2018 - Question the Trade Mark Judges
2018 - The Shape of Things to Come: Design & Trade Mark Protection of Product Shapes
2017 - Question the Trade Mark Judges
2015 - Question the Trade Mark Judges
2025 - Copyright Law and AI: Time to Revisit Copyright Registration?
2024 - Artificial Intelligence and Collective Rights Management: the Future or the End?
2024 - The Battle of the Booksellers: the 250th anniversary of Donaldson v Beckett
2023 - Copyright and the CJEU
2021 - AI and Copyright: What Next?
2020 - COVID-19: IP Law, Policy and Practice II - Copyright, Competition Law and Privacy
2019 - Copyright and Collective Authorship
2025 - Journalism, Politics and British Justice
2024 - AI-Enabled Crime
2024 - Are you Ready for REULA?
2023 - IP and the Metaverse
2023 - Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated?
2022 - Mr Justice Laddie and his intellectual property cases: Of millefeuilles and a fish called Elvis
2022 - Can the IP System Serve Small Businesses Better?
2022 - Clash of Jurisdictions – the EU-US Data Transfer Saga
2021 - World IP Day, Life on the IP Bench and Other Things: A Conversation with Professor Sir Robin Jacob
2020 - COVID-19: IP Law, Policy and Practice II - Copyright, Competition Law and Privacy
2020 - COVID-19: IP Law, Policy and Practice III - COVID-19 and the UK IP Professions
2019 – IP and ADR: Sessions 1-3; Session 4 and Session 5
2019 - Exhaustion of Intellectual Property Rights
2018 – Apologia pro vita sua: A hifi retrospective and a modest prospective
2015 – IP and Advocacy
2015 - IP and Ethics: The impact of ethical considerations on the existence or enforcement of IP Rights
2013 - Professor Sir Robin Jacob's Inaugural Lecture - IP Law: Keep Calm and Carry On?