UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law publishes its Annual Report

As the new academic year gets underway, the UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law, known to most as IBIL, has published its Annual Report. This is available to read here as a pdf.

The Report reflects the Institute's continued efforts to extend the reach of research undertaken by IBIL members and promoting stakeholder conversations on a range of important issues in intellectual property law. This year, this has seen the launch of the IBIL Trade Marks and Social Justice series to complement the IBIL Copyright and GenAI series, which was set up last year. The report also reviews the IBIL's programme of events, which have, inter alia, considered the implications that AI has on patent law, the expansion of trade mark law's scope of protection and whether copyright law should revisit a registration scheme. 

The Report further highlights IBIL's activities aimed which are aimed at supporting the Faculty's IP students at undergraduate, postgraduate level, as well as PhD students and early career researchers (ECRs), both within UCL and at other institutions in the UK and Europe. These activities include the continued provision of scholarships for PhD students undertaking relevant reseach projects at UCL Laws, awarding prizes for those students achieving the highest marks in IP modules, providing coaching and support for the Oxford International IP Moot team, and sponsorship of the student UCL Intellectual Property Society. 

A special thanks to our Sponsors, and thanks too to all those who attended our events. Without this support, much of what is reported would not have been possible!