Widening the Net: Contributory Liability for Facilitating, Authorising and Inducing Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights

Saturday 13 March 2010 09:30 to 17:30

Location

Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ, UK
 

Participants

Chair

Mr Justice Richard Arnold

Speakers

Paul Davies, (Gonville & Caius, Cambridge), 'General Principles of Joint Tortfeasance and criminal accessorial liability in England & Wales'

Dr Phillip Johnson (Barrister, 7 New Square, Lincoln's Inn), 'Patents: the case law under s.60(2)-(3) of the Patents Act 1977 (taking account of caselaw elsewhere in Europe under provisions modeled on CPC, Art 26)'

Dr Catherine Seville, (Newnham College, Cambridge), 'Authorising Infringement of Copyright: the Case Law from the UK and Australia'

Dr Jennifer Davis (Wolfson College, Cambridge), 'Trade marks and "instruments of fraud"'

Professor Stacey Dogan (Boston University), 'Accessorial Liability in The United States'

Professor Thomas Dreier (University of Karlsruhe), 'Accessorial Liability in Germany'

Dr. Mireille van Eechoud (Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam), 'Accessorial Liability in The Netherlands'

Professor Graeme Dinwoodie, (University of Oxford), 'EBay and Auction Sites/ Ad Words'

Jo Oliver, (IFPI), 'Peer to Peer: Grokster, Pirate-Bay and beyond'

Professor Matthias Leistner (University of Bonn), 'International and Regional Harmonization

Professor Ken Oliphant (Institute for European Tort Law, Vienna), 'The ethics and economics of Contributory Liability in Tort'

Professor Alain Strowel (Brussels) 'Accessorial Liability in Belgium and France'

The event costs £90.00 with special rates of £65.00 for academics and £45.00 for students. To book places please contact Carol Hosmer at CIPIL, Faculty of Law, 10 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ, UK by 8th March 2010.

This conference has been accredited with 5.5 CPD hours by the law society and is awaiting accreditation by the Bar Standards Board.