Intellectual Property Teachers' Workshop
Scarman House, University of Warwick
Monday 25th June 2001
The second annual Intellectual Property Teachers' Workshop will take place at Scarman House, University of Warwick on Monday 25th June 2001.
The aims of the workshop are:
- to provide an informal setting for members of the intellectual property teaching and research community to develop links with one another; and
- to give members of this community an opportunity to exchange ideas and information about current issues in intellectual property teaching and research.
The workshop is sponsored by the Patent Office. There is no charge for attending the workshop and lunch will be provided for all participants. However, participants will be expected to meet their own travel expenses.
Travel information
Information about travelling to the University of Warwick is available at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/maps/
Provisional programme
The morning session of the workshop will be devoted to papers and a panel discussion on teaching intellectual property, while the afternoon session will be concerned with intellectual property research. The provisional programme is as follows:
10.00 Registration and coffee
10.30 Welcome
10.35 Papers on teaching issues
Terry Prime (University of East Anglia) and David Booton (Manchester), "Intellectual Property Teaching in the United Kingdom"
Philip Johnson (Patent Office), "Patent Office and Intellectual Property Education"
Roger Burridge (UK Centre for Legal Education), "Initiatives in Law Teaching and Learning"
12.00 Panel discussion on teaching issues
Panelists: Euan Cameron (De Montfort), Rosa Greaves (Durham), Keren Bright (Oxford Brookes), Claire Howell (University of West England)
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Papers on research issues
Paul Heald (Georgia) "Indigenous peoples and co-opting the multinational corporation: setting sail with the bio-pirates"
Jim Tunney (Abertay) "The reflexive relationship between computer games and intellectual property"
David Townend and Peter Odell (Sheffield) "Intellectual property rights: risk, reward and confidence"
Anthony Murphy (Patent Office) "Intellectual property rights in cyberspace"
3.30 Tea
4.00 Panel discussion on research issues
Panelists: Fiona Macmillan (Birkbeck), Martin Kretschmer (Bournemouth), Peter Drahos (QMW), Peter Jaffey (Brunel), Irini Stamatoudi (Leicester)
5.00 Close
Further information
If you would like any further information about the Workshop, please contact:
Dr. Andy Clark
School of Law
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
Tel. 024 7652 4165
Email: andy.clark@warwick.ac.uk