Maurer School pairs with Oxford for law conference

The Maurer School of Law Center for Intellectual Property Research is teaming with the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre at the University of Oxford for a conference about protection law.

The conference, “The Future of Design Protection Law,” will be this Friday and Saturday in Oxford, England.

“Design protection is once again at the forefront of intellectual property debates,” Center for Intellectual Property Research Director Mark Janis said in a press release. “The ongoing smartphone litigation around the world highlights how valuable design
protection can be.”

Proceedings of the conference will be published in “IP Theory,” an online journal published by the Center for Intellectual Property Research.

“Now is an especially propitious time to consider the future of design protection,” Janis said. “In the United States, the Federal Circuit Court reinvigorated design patent protection in the Egyptian Goddess case. In the European Union, the Court of Justice is now beginning to hand down decisions on a design protection regime put in place a decade ago. The U.K. government is conducting a consultation on reform of design law. And Japan and China have shown increased interest in the operation of design protection in a wide range of economic sectors.”

For more information, visit ip.law.indiana.edu.

— Kirsten Clark