UAntwerp IP Law & Governance

Welcome to our page! We are a group of scholars from @UAntwerpen carrying out research in IP law & governance. Please follow us, if you are interested in the recent developments in IP law and IP governance.

@jozefienfvh @e_vanzimmeren @CiTiP_KULeuven Thank you for your wonderful talk, Jozefien. It was a true pleasure. We look forward to cooperating with you.

Featuring @DevanshiSaxena of @LDRG_Antwerp & @UA_IPLawGov - looks exciting! 🥳👏

@e_vanzimmeren @UA_IPLawGov will ask: “Trusting or Distrusting Private Arrangements and Regulatory Framework for Vaccine Innovation and Development?”

Packed room, inspiring presentations and discussion, many thanks to all speakers and participants to our side-event on DSI with @FrisonChristine at @planttreaty #GB9 @RachelWynberg @UniTrento @CorsciUCLouvain @UA_IPLawGov @IISD_ENB @ESG_Project

If at ITPGRFA #GB9, join @FrisonChristine and myself at our side-event on access and #benefitsharing and digital sequence information, with @RachelWynberg, Regine Andersen, Charles Lawson, and others! @UniTrento @CorsciUCLouvain @UA_IPLawGov @IISD_ENB @ESG_Project @planttreaty

Pleased to share our paper ‘Patent Transactions and the Use of Blockchain Technology’, presented at @epip2022 at the University of Cambridge. Thomas Gils and I claim that powering #patent registers with #blockchains could facilitate (global) patent trade. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

We are extremely proud of our Dr. Federica Baldan. Please check out her book ‘Judicial Coherence in the European #Patent System: Lessons from the US and Japan’ @Elgar_Law

🆕 Judicial Coherence in the European #Patent System: Lessons from the US and Japan by Federica Baldan of @UA_IPLawGov For more information ➡️ e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/9781… 🆓 Chapter, Introduction to Judicial Coherence in the European Patent System ➡️ elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/97…

@UA_IPLawGov Compulsory licenses; not a miracle solution but part of the toolbox to deal with very expensive medicines - publication @KCEfgov report lnkd.in/ehk6FJJz. Legal analysis for the scientific study by @e_vanzimmeren, @TiMinCeBIL, @LiesbetPaemen

Pleased to share our (#openaccess) article on (the lack of) #transparency of patent #ownership 🥳 Adrián Kovács and I claim that the society is entitled to know the identity of #patent owners as part of a “patent bargain”. Grateful to @FWOVlaanderen. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Had a great opportunity to present my research on transparency of IP ownership to the #openinnovation community @WorldOpenInno at #WOIC2021. Key message: to engage in OI we need to know who owns which IP. Special thanks to @openITstrat & @adiminin for valuable comments.

Join us this Friday (19/11, 1 pm CET) for a multifaceted discussion on the accessibility of patented #technologies and potential measures to facilitate access to #patents. #webinar #intellectualproperty @ipr_univ_center @AlinaWernick @FWOVlaanderen ipruc.fi/en/training-ev…

More #EPIP2021 content: our master’s student Felipe de Andrade presented his paper on the concept of #patent exceptionalism, co-authored with Prof. @e_vanzimmeren Glad to have such proactive students! 👏 linkedin.com/posts/felipe-c…

Many of our researchers had a wonderful opportunity to present their work at #EPIP2021. Our @sandernysten has presented his latest chapter and is getting one step closer to finishing his PhD 🎓#copyright #openinnovation

Presented my paper on transparency of IP ownership at #EPIP2021 in which I argue that information on IP owners of even registered IP is currently not transparent that negatively affects IP access & exchange. Well, and clearly the change is needed 🧐 @FWOVlaanderen @CiTiP_KULeuven

Prof. Esther van Zimmeren @e_vanzimmeren @UAntwerpen brengt nuance in de discussie over octrooien voor coronavaccins. Hoewel mechanismen zoals dwanglicenties juridisch haalbaar zijn, is het nog maar de vraag of dat ook de meest doeltreffende oplossing is. radio1.be/luister/select…

Our @FrisonChristine @e_vanzimmeren @DevanshiSaxena have recently published a paper ‘Bringing access and benefit sharing into the digital age’ in Plants People Planet nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… #biodiversity #plants

I am very pleased to share my latest paper 'The Allocation of Patent Ownership in R&D Partnerships: Default Rules v. Contractual Practices' published today @SCRIPTed_Jrnl! #patents #collaboration #openinnovation @CiTiP_KULeuven @UA_IPLawGov @FWOVlaanderen script-ed.org/article/the-al…

The EPO has refused two European patent applications on the grounds that the designated inventor is not a human being. Full news here: bit.ly/2Z6Egqu

The EPO: “an inventor designated in the application has to be a human being, not a machine”. #patent #AI