Third Annual Intellectual Property Lecture at Emmanuel College: Ensuring Consumers "Get What They Want": The Role of Trademark Law

Speaker: Professor Graeme B. Dinwoodie  Professor of Law, Associate Dean and Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law and Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary, University of London

Venue: Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Admission: By Invitation only.  Please contact Gaenor Moore, CIPIL Secretary for more information.

Graeme Dinwoodie has held a Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary since 2005. He is also a Professor of Law, Associate Dean and Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. He previously taught at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he was a three-time recipient of the Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In 2003, he was elected to membership in the American Law Institute. Prior to teaching, Graeme had been an associate with Sullivan and Cromwell in New York, concentrating in the practice of intellectual property law and in commercial, corporate, and international litigation. He holds a First Class Honours LLB degree in Private Law from the University of Glasgow, an LLM from Harvard Law School, and a JSD from Columbia Law School. He was the Burton Fellow in residence at Columbia Law School for 1988-89, working in the field of intellectual property law, and a John F. Kennedy Scholar at Harvard Law School for 1987-88. He is the author of the casebooks International Intellectual Property Law and Policy (with Hennessey and Perlmutter), International and Comparative Patent Law (with Hennessey and Perlmutter), and Trademarks and Unfair Competition: Law and Policy (with Janis). His articles on various aspects of intellectual property law have appeared in several leading law reviews. He has served as a consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organization on matters of private international law, to UNCTAD on traditional knowledge questions, and as an advisor to the American Law Institute project on Jurisdiction and Recognition of Judgments in Intellectual Property Matters. He teaches courses in Copyright Law, Trademark Law, International Intellectual Property Law, Conflict of Laws and Civil Procedure.
Current research interests include the relationship between trademark law and social norms, and the development of a private international law of intellectual property. He is also working with Rochelle Dreyfuss on a book, to be published by Oxford University Press, addressing how to achieve balance in international intellectual property law and collaborating with Mark Janis, his trademarks casebook co-author, on a project reconsidering the role of use in trademark law.

This Conference has been accredited by the Law Society and the Bar Standards Board with 1 CPD hour.