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Intellectual property (IP) and information can have a significant impact on responses to societal challenges; yet regimes created to address challenges (such as health, biodiversity and energy security) engage with legal regimes relating to IP and information in a variety of ways – from undue deference to overly proactive intervention. This can limit the effectiveness of the new regimes and render them vulnerable to challenge. Different approaches are also taken by regimes and their creators to raw information and their (silent?) appropriation of it. This paper will explore these questions with a focus on case studies regarding oil and gas, soil surveys, marine genetic resources and health information. The paper will also develop new proposals for intertwined, plural and adaptable approaches to formal regime creation, particularly regarding remit creation, interaction and interpretation, and by stretching epistemic communities.
Bio: Abbe Brown is Professor in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Aberdeen. Her research explores the extent to which intellectual property and information laws intersect, and do not intersect, with other areas of law and the impact of this on addressing key societal challenges. Abbe has a deep interest in interdisciplinary research, notably with philosophers and chemists and is part of projects funded by the EU and the RSE. Abbe was part of the International Union on Conservation of Nature (IUCN) delegations to the UN’s negotiations on Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction and the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resource and Associated Traditional Knowledge. Abbe served as a Senior Expert of the National Environmental Research Council’s Constructing a Digital Environment Programme. Before returning to academic Abbe practised as an intellectual property and commercial litigation for almost 10 years in London., Melbourne and Edinburgh.
- Speaker
- Professor Abbe Brown
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- School of Law
- Venue
- Hybrid Event (On Campus Venue - A21)
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This event is free and open to all. If you would like to attend the seminar online please contact Georgi Chichkov at georgi.chichkov@abdn.ac.uk