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By Herbert Baker - https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecadman/2347434439/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68619795 Downing College, Cambridge Jane Lambert I have been chairing sessions and speaking at the Cambridge IP Law Summer School  on and off since 2017 and have enjoyed every one tremendously but I think this year's was the best ever.  That was because there was an exceptional cohort of attendees drawn from the Civil Service, Magic Circle law firms, Sweden, Turkiye and business and an updated programme which included artificial intelligence, database rights, geographical indications and the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024. The Summer School took place at Downing College between Monday 12 Aug and Friday 16 Aug 3035. There was a different agenda each day.    The first day's agenda was  "Fundamentals" , the second day's was "Patents" , the third's was " Soft IP" , the fourth's  "...

Combine Harvester Author Brian Forbes Source Wikipedi a  Creative Commons  Licence Jane Lambert According to the  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (" DEFRA" ) , some 476,000 individuals in the UK were employed or engaged in agriculture contributing £9.9 billion to the country's gross value added in 2014 (see  Agriculture in the United Kingdom 2014   DEFRA and devolved administrations). Branding As most consumers purchase their food from intermediaries there are limited opportunities for farmers who supply those intermediaries to distinguish their produce from those of their competitors. The position is, of course, different if they market directly to the public through their own farm shops or other retail outlets that they control or influence. If they can build up reputation or goodwill it makes sense to register the name, logo or other sign by which they are identified in the market as a UK trade mark. If...

Jane Lambert On the 25 Sept 2013 I led a seminar on the law relating to branding at 4-5 Gray's Inn Square. This was part of an introductory course on IP law which started with the Introduction to IP Law on 26 June 2913. The slides and notes from that talk can be read and downloaded from my post "Introduction to IP Law " on 1 July 2013. Although I gave my talk without slides I have produced a set for the benefit of those who were not there and you can read and download them here: Introduction to brands from Jane Lambert I also gave each attendee a set of notes and a memory stick which you will find here:   Introduction to the law relating to branding from Jane Lambert The next talks in the series will be on Creative Output - Copyright and Related Rights  which will take place at 4-5 Gray's Inn Square on 30 Oct 2013 between 16:00 and 18:00 and Technology - Patents, Trade Secrets, Design Rights, Plant Varieties etc  on 27 No...