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This volume is a compendium of the Sir Hugh Laddie Lectures delivered at University College London (UCL) in the period between 2009 and 2018. This is a public lecture series organised by the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law (IBIL) at UCL Faculty of Laws in honour of IBIL's founder - Professor Sir Hugh Laddie. Presented as a collection of verbatim lecture transcripts, rather than formal papers, the book brings the subjects to life by providing the reader with a 'fly on the wall' experience. As distinguished IP judges, academics and policy makers, the eminent men and women who gave these lectures have all played a prominent role in shaping the recent development of intellectual property law. The lecture forum affords them the opportunity to speak in a personal capacity, often with surprising candour, which casts what may seem well-worn subject matter in a new and interesting light. The book, as a whole, highlights controversial legislative policies and decisions, tracks legal shifts and affords extra-judicial perspectives, providing an enlightening and historically relevant snapshot of intellectual property over the last decade. In doing so, it not only provides a valuable reference source for the UK and international IP community but also provides anyone with a true interest in intellectual property law a set of eminently readable essays.Contents and Contributors: * Preface The Rt. Hon. Professor Sir Robin Jacob * The Insatiable Appetite for Intellectual Property RightsSir Hugh Laddie, QC * The Function of a Trade Mark: Hugh Laddie and the European Court of JusticeThe Rt. Hon. Lord Leonard Hoffmann * From National Patent Litigation to a European Patent Court: A Dream, A Wish or Soon Reality?Raimund Lutz * Killing the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg: Too Many Trade Marks? Use and Intention to Use in EU Trade Mark Law.The Hon. Mrs Justice (Fidelma) Macken * The Growing Imperative to Internationalise the LawJudge Randall R. Rader * Community Trade Marks: Are they a Swiss Cheese?Professor Dr. Joachmin Bornkamm * Culture of the Public Domain: A Good Thing?Professor Hugh Hansen, Fordham Law School * IP and AdvocacyJudge Alex Kozinski * Patents and PopulismThe Hon. Dr Annabelle Bennett AO SC * Towards a Global Copyright Law?Shira Perlmutter * Apologia pro vita sua: A hifi retrospective and a modest prospective His Honour Michael Fysh QC SCThe Rt. Hon. Professor Sir Robin Jacob has been variously a leading member of the Intellectual Property Bar, a High Court judge and a judge in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. His primary expertise is intellectual property law. He left the Court of Appeal in 2011 to take up his current position as the Sir Hugh Laddie Chair in Intellectual Property Law, and Director of the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law at the Faculty of Laws, University College London.

Intellectual property. --- Intellectual property --- IP (Intellectual property) --- Proprietary rights --- Rights, Proprietary --- Intangible property --- Law and legislation

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What do the Mona Lisa, the light bulb, and a Lego brick have in common? The answer - intellectual property (IP) - may be surprising, because IP laws are all about us, but go mostly unrecognized. They are complicated and arcane, and few people understand why they should care about copyright, patents, and trademarks. In this lustrous collection, Claudy Op den Kamp and Dan Hunter have brought together a group of contributors - drawn from around the globe in fields including law, history, sociology, science and technology, media, and even horticulture - to tell a history of IP in 50 objects. These objects not only demonstrate the significance of the IP system, but also show how IP has developed and how it has influenced history. Each object is at the core of a story that will be appreciated by anyone interested in how great innovations offer a unique window into our past, present, and future.

Intellectual property --- History. --- IP (Intellectual property) --- Proprietary rights --- Rights, Proprietary --- Intangible property --- Law and legislation

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"This collection provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of the concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the issues surrounding its value to society. Critically engaging with the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the book also discusses local-level conceptualizations of living cultural traditions, practices and expressions, and reflects on the efforts that seek to safeguard them. Exploring a global range of case studies, the book considers the diverse perspectives currently involved with intangible cultural heritage and presents a rich picture of the geographic, socioeconomic and political contexts impacting research in this area."--Back cover.

Collective memory. --- Cultural property. --- Ethnologie. --- Ethnology. --- Immaterielles Kulturerbe. --- Intangible property. --- Mémoire collective. --- ethnology. --- social anthropology.

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As a central part of the regulation of contemporary economies, intellectual property (IP) is central to all aspects of our lives. It matters for the works we create, the brands we identify and the medicines we consume. But if IP is power, what kind of power is it, and what does it do? Building on the work of Michel Foucault, Gordon Hull examines different ways of understanding power in copyright, trademark and patent policy: as law, as promotion of public welfare, and as promotion of neoliberal privatization. He argues that intellectual property policy is moving toward neoliberalism, even as that move is broadly contested in everything from resistance movements to Supreme Court decisions. This work should be read by anyone interested in understanding why the struggle to conceptualize IP matters.

Intellectual property --- Biopolitics --- Political behavior --- Human behavior --- Political science --- Sociobiology --- IP (Intellectual property) --- Proprietary rights --- Rights, Proprietary --- Intangible property --- Philosophy. --- Law and legislation

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Parodies have been created throughout times and cultures. A glimpse at the general judicial latitude generally afforded to parodies, satires, caricatures, and pastiches demonstrates the social and cultural value of this particular form of artistic expression. With the advent of technologies and the evolution of copyright legislation, creative endeavours in the form of parody gathered a new youth but became unlawful.While copyright law grants exclusive rights to right-holders, this right is not absolute. Legislation includes specific exceptions, which preclude right-holders from exercising their prerogatives in particular cases which foster creativity and cultural diversity within that society. The parody exception pertains to this ultimate objective by permitting users to reproduce copyright-protected materials for the purpose of parody.To understand the meaning and scope of the parody exception, this book examines and compares five jurisdictions which differ in their protection of parodies: France, Australia, Canada, the US and the United Kingdom. This book is concerned with finding an appropriate balance between the protection awarded to right-holders and the public interest. This is achieved by analysing the parody exception to the economic rights of right-holders, the preservation of moral rights and the interaction of the parody exception with contract law.As parodies constitute an artistic expression protected under the right to freedom of expression, this book also considers the influence of freedom of expression on the interpretation of this specific copyright exception. Furthermore, this book aims at providing guidance on how to resolve conflicts where fundamental rights are in conflict.This is the first book in English to offer an in-depth investigation into the parody exception in copyright law, and comments on industry practices linked to this form of creative endeavours.

Copyright --- Parody --- Comic literature --- Literature, Comic --- Travesty --- Satire --- Burlesque (Literature) --- Caricature --- Literary property --- Property, Literary --- Intangible property --- Intellectual property --- Anti-copyright movement --- Authors and publishers --- Book registration, National --- Patent laws and legislation --- Law and legislation