Past Workshops and Conferences
ISHTIP Workshop 2011 (5-6 July, 2011), South Bank, Brisbane, Australia.
International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology 2011 Meeting (10-15 July, 2011), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Myles Jackson (13 June 2011), Intellectual Property and Molecular Biology: Biomedicine, Commerce, and the CCR5 Gene Patent, White Rose IPBio Public Lecture, University of York. Poster.
Plants, Animals and Ownership Innovation and Intellectual Property Protection in Living Organisms Since the 18th Century (3-5 June, 2011), Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. CFP.
BAYH-DOLE @ 30: MAPPING THE FUTURE OF UNIVERSITY PATENTING (April 29-30, 2011), Center for Science and Innovation Studies, UC Davis, USA.
Second Annual ISHTIP Workshop, Geographies of Intellectual Property (24-26 September, 2010), American University, Washington, D.C.
Intellectual Property and the Biosciences (7-8 July, 2010), White Rose IPBio Symposium and Summer School, University of Leeds, UK.
Managing Knowledge in the Techno-Sciences, 1850-2000 (5-8 July, 2010), University of Leeds, UK.
International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property Workshop (26-27 June, 2009), Bocconi University, Italy.
ISHTIP - the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property - is pleased to announce that its first Workshop will take place at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy on 26-27 June, 2009. The Workshop will explore 'the Construction of Immateriality', understood broadly as the myriad legal and non-legal processes by which individuals and groups are credited with, and rewarded for, the authorship of intangible creations, while others are condemned or penalised for using or claiming such creations as their own. To learn more about ISHTIP, see: www.ishtip.org. The call for papers can be downloaded here.
Owning and Disowning Invention Workshop (24 March, 2009), University of Leeds, UK.
Governance of New Technologies: the Transformation of Medicine, Information Technology and Intellectual Property (29-31 March, 2009), An International Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Edinburgh.
The conference will focus on evolving and emerging technologies and new-technology-driven practices and their impact on the overlapping fields of (1) healthcare, (2) information technology, and (3) intellectual property, each of which are increasingly important in the post-genomic and post-AI world, with its heavy reliance on new technologies and their distribution. For more information please see here.
Owning and Disowning Invention: Intellectual Property Authority and Identity in British Science and Technology, 1880-1920 (October, 2008), Panel at SHOT, Lisbon.
Representatives from the Owning and Disowning Group based at Leeds presented a panel on issues around IP and invention at SHOT's annual conference, hosted in Lisbon in 2008. A synopsis of the panel can be downloaded here.
Living Properties: Making Knowledge and Controlling Ownership in the History of Biology (29-31 May, 2008), Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin.
Papers were given by a range of scholars form both historical and legal backgrounds. The workshop focused on how knowledge of and innovations in living organisms and related technologies have been realized and how the products achieved identification and protection as intellectual property in the market place. Four forms of knowledge and innovation were given due consideration: a) natural history and classification with its attendant collections, mutual gifts, certificates and trademarks; b) the breeding of plants and animals; c) experimental biology (i.e. genetic, bacteriology and biochemistry) with its growing ability to manipulate and patent "pure" organisms, molecules or metabolic pathways; and d) modern biotechnology with its emphasis on sequences, broadened intellectual property rights, and upstream control of life "itself". The workshop was lively and informative, and it handsomely fulfilled our hopes and expectations. It brought to light specific knowledge on a variety of appropriation mechanisms and it advanced fascinating comparisons and provocative ideas. For a copy of the workshop's programme please see here.