Forthcoming Events

APRIL

• 24 April: IP and Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture, Geneva and online. 
• 24-25 April: Protecting IP Rights, Freedom to Operate and IP Strategy for Start Ups and SMEs, online. IPKat readers are entitled to a 10% discount by mentioning 'IPKat' in the registration form.  
• 25-30 April: Platforming Creativity Spring School, Glasgow.
• 26 April: AI Disrupting Law Online Symposium 2024, Chicago-Kent Law Review Online Symposium, online.
• 28-30 April: LESI 2024, Madrid.
• 29-30 April: EUIPO Boards of Appeal IP Case Law Conference - Decoding Decisions: Insights from Selected Case-Law, Alicante and online.

MAY

• 1 May: IMRO and Law Society Annual Copyright Lecture - Music Copyright: The Text and Data Mining Exceptions and the EU's AI Act, Dublin.
• 2 May: Seminar on Collective Licensing and Workshop on Copyright Solutions, London.
• 7 May: Retromark:The Conference, London.
• 7 May: The Professor Bill Cornish Memorial Lecture 2024, London and online.
• 6-17 May: Bournemouth IP Summer School, online.
• 13 May: Fashion Law London - Fashion Reborn: The Age of AI, London and online. IPKat readers are entitled to a 15% discount by using promo code IPKAT.  
• 13-17 May: Artificial Intelligence and EU Law, Tübingen. 
• 16-17 May: Patents in Telecoms & the Internet of Things, London and online.
• 15 May: Protecting Confidential Information, Trade Secrets and Know How, online. IPKat readers are entitled to a 10% discount by mentioning 'IPKat' in the registration form. 
• 18-22 May:  2024 INTA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
• 20 May: Deepfakes and the Law, London.
• 24 May: 2024 European Copyright Society Conference, Frankfurt.

JUNE

• 5 June: Intellectual Property and the European Courts, Luxembourg.
• 6 June: Lecture ‘The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on IP Law in the World of Fashion’, London.
• 12 June: How are Novelty and Inventive Step to be Assessed and Should the Patent Claim be Construed First?, London.
• 12-13 June: Framing IP Rights in Legal, Economic, and Cultural Settings, Swansea.
• 13-14 June: Towards a Responsible Development of the Metaverse, Alicante.
• 20 June: Annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture, London and online.
• 24 June-12 July: UCL’s Summer School 2024, London.
• 26 June: UCL PhD Conference, London.
• 30 June-3 July: 42nd ATRIP Annual Congress, Rome.

JULY

• 1-5 July: Summer Course on European Intellectual Property Law, Trier. IPKat readers are entitled to a 25% discount using VIP code IPKAT2024ERA at checkout (the code can be combined with the early bird discount where applicable (but no other discounts)).
• 1-5 July: IViR Summer Course on International Copyright Law & Policy, Amsterdam.
  
• 1-10 July: KU Leuven Summer School on the Law, Ethics and Policy of Artificial Intelligence, Leuven.
• 8-10 July: TILTing Perspectives Conference, Tilburg.

SEPTEMBER

• 6-7 September: 2024 SERCI Annual Congress, Fort Worth, TX. 
• 9-13 September: Summer Course on European Information Technology Law, online. IPKat readers are entitled to a 25% discount using VIP code IPKAT2024ERA at checkout (the code can be combined with the early bird discount where applicable (but no other discounts)).
• 12-13 September 2024: Digital Knowledge – The Library and Copyright in a Global Digital Economy, Stockholm. 
  
• 25 September 2024 (course start): Accredited European Patent Litigation Certificate Course, Trier and online.

OCTOBER

• 4-5 October: EIPTN 16th Worldwide Annual Conference, Brussels.

NOVEMBER

• 28-29 November: Annual Conference on European Copyright Law 2024, online.