CIPIL Intellectual Property Seminar: 'Researching the international IP conventions – problems and issues'

Speaker: Professor Sam Ricketson (Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School)

Location: Room B16

Sam Ricketson has written widely and taught in all areas of IP law. He also practised part-time at the Victorian Bar until mid-2012, principally in intellectual property. Professor Ricketson has written, taught and advised widely in all areas of intellectual property law (copyright and designs, patents, trade marks and unfair competition, and breach of confidence), conflicts of law, trade practices and corporate law. He has also held various professional as well as governmental appointments in the intellectual property area, including membership of the Commonwealth Copyright Tribunal. He is currently a panel member of the World Intellectual Property Organisation's dispute resolution body in relation to domain names and is a member of the Victorian Law Reform Commission.

A sandwich lunch will be provided.