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Events 5 March 2024: Workshop on Digital Assets, Ownership and Property Rights Queen Mary IntellectualProperty Research Institute, in partnership with the Cloud Legal Project at CCLS, is organising a workshop exploring how the concepts of ownership and property rights relate and apply to digital assets.
4-7 October 2023: “Open Forum event” The International Federation of IntellectualProperty Attorneys (FICPI) is hosting its Open Forum event from 4 to 7 October 2023, in London. Click here and here to know more. The seminar will take place in Paris and online, on 16 and 17 March 2023 and entirely in English. More details to come.
There are formal contracts to outline the finer points and, in such cases, licensed professionals are involved to help the athlete understand their legal obligations. Sometimes it is so informal that the athlete does not realize they have entered into a contract that creates legal obligations just as real as the big money deals listed above.
In today’s intellectualproperty (IP) ecosystems, significant challenges persist in managing, protecting, and leveraging IP assets effectively. recent years, WIPO has organised several notable events focused on blockchain and its potential applications in the realm of intellectualproperty.
EPIP (European Policy for IntellectualProperty) – as the website states - is an international, independent, interdisciplinary, non-profit association of researchers that grew out of a network financed by the European Commission in 2003-05. Daily invitations for workshops, seminars, conferences, and symposiums fill my inbox.
Dwyer spearheads the creation of annual action plans and supports their implementation; notable accomplishments have included launching an office supplies donation pilot program; conducting a week-long waste assessment; and distributing 48 zero waste kits to support waste reduction at workshops and events.
See our article, Against the Evidence: How the FTC Cast Aside the Input of Experts at Its Own Non-Compete Workshop. For a more detailed look at the Workforce Mobility Act of 2023, see our article, Bipartisan Bill to Ban Most Non-Compete Agreements Reintroduced in U.S.
Most people assume intellectualproperty is primarily a distress purchase. They choose a name themselves and if they turn to an intellectualproperty lawyer it will be for trademark support. This is one of the many misconceptions about IP that I’ve noticed since starting my business in 2004.
As a trademark law firm, we represent a wide array of clients but predominantly focus on helping small business owners protect their intellectualproperty. EMP&A attorneys are actively involved in the International Trademark Association (INTA) and the American Bar Association’s IntellectualProperty Law section (ABA-IPL).
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It recently held a workshop where academics and regulators addressed the issue. At the workshop, legal scholars, economists, and policy experts reviewed the current state of the law and economic literature on non-compete clauses in contracts between employers and employees.
13-14 April 2023: Fordham Law School’s 30th Annual IntellectualProperty Law & Policy Conference The 30th Annual IntellectualProperty Law & Policy Conference will be held on 13-14 April 2023 at Fordham Law School in Manhattan. The event will take place on 23 March 2023 at 6pm at Wellcome Collection in London.
In 2015, the Program on Information Justice and IntellectualProperty (PIJIP) set out to conduct empirical research on the impact of copyright exceptions. We held a series of workshops during which we gradually developed a survey that would cover a wide range of copyright exceptions. Protection Against Supremacy of Contracts.
CIPLITEC | Center for IntellectualProperty Law, Information and Technology Copyright 2030 – “ The Future of the Creative Ecosystem in Europe ” (9 December 2021) CIPLITEC's interdisciplinary group of leading academics is organizing an online event on 9 December 2021 from 17:30 to 19:30 (CET). Registrations are open and available here.
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And the FTC has held workshops to consider its authority to do so, the purpose of which was to “to examine whether there is a sufficient legal basis and empirical economic support to promulgate a Commission Rule that would restrict the use of non-compete clauses in employer-employee employment contracts.”
In particular, in December 2021, the DOJ and FTC hosted a virtual workshop that brought together policy experts and labor leaders to discuss efforts to promote competitive labor markets and worker mobility, including scrutinizing and limiting the use of restrictive covenants. its training procedures, and its off-boarding policies.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) hosted a virtual workshop on December 6-7, 2021, bringing together agency representatives, lawyers, economists, academics, and other experts to discuss issues affecting competition in the labor market (“Workshop”). Takeaways from the Workshop.
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But one that really stands out is Jackson Lewis’ Erik Winton, Clifford Atlas, Daniel Thornton and Daniel Doron’s analysis of how the FTC has deviated from its own workshops and from its own experts in formulating its proposed ban. Leave it to a Buckeye to see the FTC proposed ban through the lens of a college football fan.
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Earlier this month, the agency (in coordination with the Department of Justice) held two days of workshops , informal fact-gathering, and panels – titled “Making Competition Work: Promoting Competition in Labor Markets” – on addressing “competition issues affecting labor markets and the welfare of workers.”
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