The Annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture Series
The annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture is a public lecture which takes place every year in honour of IBIL's founder.
Find out more about each of our Annual lectures and view the recording of the event.
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
Click here to access more information about the event, and click here to view a recording of the lecture. You can also read a copy of the speech here.
22nd June 2022
Mr Justice Laddie and his intellectual property cases: Of millefeuilles and a fish called Elvis
Delivered by: Professor David Vaver
Osgoode Hall Law School & University of Oxford (Emeritus)
Click here to access more information about the event and click here to view a recording of the lecture. You can also read a copy of the speech, which has been published in 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' [2022] IPQ 119.
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, and click here to watch the lecture recording. This research builds upon earlier research, co-authored with Professor Jeanne Fromer, published in the Harvard Law Review in 2018, which you can read here, and a subsequent article, published in The Trademark Reporter in 2022, which you can read here.
10th November 2020
Machina Sapiens: The Conflation of Natural and Artificial Creativity and Inventiveness
Delivered by: Daniel Gervais
Director of the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Programme and Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law at Vanderbilt Law School
Click here to access more information about the event, or read the paper, The Human Cause, based upon Professor Gervais' talk.
Watch the Laddie Lectures
Patent Law Harmonisation: How we got this far
The 17th IBIL Annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture - 2025
'Patent Law Harmonisation: How we got this far' delivered by The Rt Hon Sir Christopher Floyd
Artificial Intelligence and Collective Rights Management: the Future or the End?
The 16th IBIL Annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture - 2024
'AI and Collective Rights Management: the Future or the End?' delivered by Gadi Oron
The UPC Sets Sail
The 15th IBIL Annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture - 2023
'The UPC Sets Sail' delivered by Judge Rian Kalden
Mr Justice Laddie and his intellectual property cases
The 14th IBIL Annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture - 2022
'Mr Justice Laddie and his intellectual property cases: Of millefeuilles and a fish called Elvis' delivered by Professor David Vaver (Osgoode Hall)
Is the EU running out of trade marks?
The 13th IBIL Annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture - 2021
'Is Europe Running Out of Trademarks?' delivered by Professor Barton Beebe, Professor of Intellectual Property Law at NYU School of Law
Machina Sapiens: The Conflation of Natural and Artificial Creativity
The 12th IBIL Annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture - 2020
'Machina Sapiens: The Conflation of Natural and Artificial Creativity and Inventiveness' delivered by Professor Daniel J. Gervais
