Arrivals and Tuesday Wonders

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Arrivals and Tuesday Wonders

 Oliver Fairhurst Tuesday, September 30, 2025 - announcements, events, Georgia Jenkins, GuesKat, Miscellany, Oliver Fairhurst

Arrivals and Tuesday Wonders

Here is a round up of what's happening in the wonderful world of IP and the wonderfuller world of the IPKat.

New GuestKat

The IPKat team welcomes Georgia Jenkins as a new GuestKat for the next six months. Georgia is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool. Her research explores how copyright and platform regulation shape, and are shaped by, digital culture and participatory creativity. She's interested in how legal frameworks respond to remix practices, online expression, and user-generated content. Offline, she can be found underwater with a scuba tank, folding dumplings, or searching for street art. More on Georgia here.

Events

Twelfth session of the WIPO Conversation (Geneva and online, 28-29 October 2025, 10am-6pm CET)

The 12th instalment of the WIPO Conversation will look at the "legal and policy dimensions of synthetic media, including existing IP approaches, the challenges posed by digitization and AI, recent legislative initiatives, and possible future solutions." It will build on earlier WIPO Conversations on AI training data, AI-generated outputs, and AI and copyright infrastructure. Find out more here. 

Webinar on 'The future of the movie industry in the wake of generative AI' (Webinar, 30 October 2025, 4-5pm CET)

Our very own Prof. Eleonora Rosati is delivering a webinar on a study commissioned by 4iP mapping and and critically evaluating relevant legal issues facing the development, deployment, and use of AI models from a movie industry perspective and from the viewpoint of EU and UK copyright law. The webinar is hosted by Axel Ferrazzini. Sign up here. 

IP Inclusive event: "The case for EDI: why it still matters" (London and online, 4 November 2025, 6-7pm GMT)

IP Inclusive continues its work to keep diversity and inclusion at the top of the agenda with this event promoting the importance of EDI in the IP community. The event features Daniel Winterfeldt of the InterLaw Diversity Forum as keynote. Open to people of all levels working in IP. Find out more and sign up here. 

UCL Event: "A New Dawn for UK Design Law?" (London and online, 26 November 2025, 5:30 - 8:15pm GMT)

Following the launch of the UKIPO's design consultation, this event will look at the proposals and consider the options. Panel includes Jeff Lloyd (Deputy Director Trade Marks and Designs Policy, UKIPO), Jane Cornwell (Senior Lecturer in IP Law, University of Edinburgh), and Nina O’Sullivan (Partner, Mishcon de Reya LLP), chaired by David Stone (Partner, White & Case LLP and Deputy High Court Judge). Find out more and book here. Tickets £0-£35.

Reports

WIPO has launched the Agrifood Patent Landscape Report, which provides a comprehensive overview of global patenting trends in the agrifood sector, with a focus on Brazil's contribution. Read about it here.

Learning and research

JLMI calling for papers: "Governing AI and Digital General-Purpose Technologies: Balancing Innovation, Competition, and Rights in the Digital Economy"

The Journal for Law, Market and Innovation (JLMI) is calling for papers for its issue 2/2026 (Vol. 5), to be published at the end of July 2026. This issue will be edited by the Editors-in-Chief of the JLMI (Cristina Poncibò and Riccardo de Caria) along with Caroline Cauffman and Kalpana Tyagi as guest co-editors. Deadline is 30 November 2025. Prospective articles should be submitted in the form of abstracts (around 800 words) or draft articles to submissi...@iuse.it.

Papers released by IViR

The Institute for Information Law (Instituut voor Informatierecht, IViR) has released 10 new papers, which are freely available on its website. See here. 

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