What’s on this week




Managing IP’s round-up of the IP events, decisions and meetings taking place week beginning April 2

Monday April 2

The Effect of the Macro-Economy on Patenting and the Commercialization Process, seminar at WIPO in Geneva.

Start of a two-day Euro-Mediterranean conference on research and innovation in Barcelona, organised by the European Commission.

William Patry, copyright counsel at Google, gives an open lecture at the London School of Economics entitled What Would an Evidence-Based Copyright Law Look Like?

The Licensing Executives Society International 2012 Annual Conference in Auckland, New Zealand, April 1 – April 4.

Anthony Taubman, director of the IP division of the WTO, gives a seminar at the University of Melbourne entitled TRIPS on the Web: An Analogue Treaty in a Digital Age, or the First Trade 2.0 Agreement?




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