Cambridge IP Law Winter School
Author Monsarc Public Domain Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert One of the high points of my year as an intellectual property lawyer has been the Cambridge IP Law Summer School at Downing College, Cambridge. It is addressed by some of the world's leading IP practitioners and scholars. For the last few years, I have been invited to contribute to their discussions. Not even Covid19 managed to stop the event though it did change it. Last year it was held online. The presentations and the Q & A discussions were, as always, excellent. The only element that we missed was networking. Cambridge is a place to learn but it is also a place to have fun. In previous years, the event organizers Informa Connect had offered all sorts of evening entertainments from a black-tie dinner to punting on the Cam. It was not possible to present those activities online. Narinder Hayer, Informa Connect's organizer, told me that she had hoped to retur...