Sunday Surprises

[Rose Hughes]

Sunday Surprises

 Dr Rose Hughes Sunday, June 07, 2026 - Sunday Surprises

Here is your Sunday summary of IPKat news and events.

A reminder that the rescheduled 2026 edition of Retromark: the conference takes place on Tuesday 23 June at the Moorgate offices of Simmons & Simmons from 2pm. Gordon Humphreys, EUIPO Board of Appeal, will deliver the keynote speech. Sign up here.

The University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice invites applications for up to five scholarships to study the LLM in International Intellectual Property Law. More details here. Up to five scholarships are available, each worth £12,500 in the form of a tuition fee discount. The application deadline is 5pm, Friday 3 July 2026.

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Also from the University of Liverpool, see here for details of a fully funded PhD studentship, supported by the AHRC MusicFutures Creative Cluster, involving working with the MusicFutures research team and 27 industry partners to examine legal and policy challenges facing performers in the digital music ecosystem. Deadline to apply, 22 June 2026.

The latest edition of the creative industries insights series is now live here.

The Institute of Law is running a Summer Course on International Copyright Law & Policy. Details here.

On 12th June, The Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Paris is running the following event: Digital Replicas in the UK: A Question of Voice, Likeness and Autonomy. Details here.

Union-IP is celebrating 65 years with an event in Amsterdam, 10-13 June. Full details here.

The 4iP Council has announced a webinar, “IP Gone Wrong: What to Do Differently,” organised in collaboration with EUIPO and Eurojuris. Register here.