Saturday Sundries

4iPcouncil will hold a webinar titled “SMEs and patent holdouts: how European SMEs fight back on 22 February 2024”. Click here for details and to register.

4-5 April 2024: 31st Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference

The Emily C. & John E. Hansen IP Institute at Fordham Law School will hold its 31st Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference on 4 and 5 April 2024. The program and a partial list of conference faculty will be posted to the website in the coming weeks. Regular updates to the program and faculty will be made as information becomes available. Click here to register.

Calls and opportunities

Call for papers: 2024 SERCI Annual Congress

SERCI will hold its annual congress in Fort Worth, Texas (USA), on 6 and 7 September 2024. As usual, SERCI is looking for papers. Submissions may be on any topic that uses economic analysis (theoretical or empirical) to better understand any issue related to copyright. Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to, efficient use of copyright, models of copyright piracy, optimal copyright parameters, effects of copyright upon welfare, the law and economics of copyright, copyright and its alternatives, and copyright policy generally. Submissions should be sent to [email protected] before 30 June 2024. More information here.

Job opportunity: part-time Legal Counsel

The Society of Authors is currently looking to recruit part-time Legal Counsel to provide in-house legal advice to the Chief Executive, staff team and Management Committee (the SoA’s board of
directors). Click here to know more.