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Counting down to an interesting conversation today! Have you saved it on your calendar? Blessed to have the multitalented and innovative Barrister @nipclaw on the panel! pic.twitter.com/WNMqVIIoCI — Intellectual Property Lawyers Association Nigeria (@IplanNg) November 26, 2020 Jane Lambert Yesterday I spoke at a webinar entitled "The Business of Dance" which was organized by the Intellectual Property Lawyers Association of Nigeria .  My fellow panellists were Jemima Angulu of Krump Studios ,  Victor Nwejinaka of Blackbones Theatre Kompany , Basorun Aderoju of Hyeres Elite Athletes and Talents and Folarin Aluko  of Trumann Rockwood LP. We also had an intervention from one of the judges of the Customary Court of Nigeria . For many years I have been trying to arrange a similar discussion in the United Kingdom but without success,  That is because intellectual property specialist lawyers and patent and trade mark attorneys do not see much demand for their services in dance.  T

Standard youtube Licence Jane Lambert Cities have been motors of innovation and creativity throughout history,  Think of Periclean Athens, renaissance Florence, enlightenment Edinburgh and Silicon Valley.  Every year, the WIPO (the UN specialist agency for intellectual property) publishes a ranking of science and technology hotspots.   The list is compiled using the following methodology: "Inventors listed in patent applications under WIPO’s Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), spanning the years 2014 to 2018.  Authors listed in scientific publications in the Web of Science’s Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and covering the same period.  The geocoding of inventor and author addresses and the use of density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) algorithm to the geocoded inventor and author points." The above film shows the top 10 clusters for 2020.  From a British perspective, it is disappointing that there are no British clusters in the world's t