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Framing Intellectual Property Conference Attracts Top Legal Minds
The Centre for Law & Business (CLB) organized its inaugural intellectual property law conference titled Framing Intellectual Property Law in the 21st Century – Integrating Incentives, Trade, Development, Culture and Human Rights from 14 – 15 August 2014 at the Orchard Hotel Singapore.
This public conference is part of a research project that brings together leading scholars to consider how intellectual property law (IP) should be framed in the 21st century. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the research papers focused on how best to integrate five distinct (and sometimes fragmented) themes of incentive, trade, development, culture and human rights as part of a forthcoming book project, which will be co-edited by Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss, Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at the New York University School of Law, and Associate Professor Elizabeth Siew-Kuan Ng, Director of Intellectual Property at CLB.
Professor Simon Chesterman, Dean of the NUS Faculty of Law, addressed participants at the conference in his welcome speech. This was followed by the opening address of the Guest-of-Honour, Ms Indranee Rajah, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Law and the Ministry of Education.
The keynote speech was delivered by Mr Tan Yih San, Chief Executive, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, on the second day of the conference. CE Tan highlighted that the domestic dynamics in different countries will affect the international intellectual property landscape and examined some possible considerations in terms of policy anchors for Singapore.
The conference was attended by more than 120 distinguished speakers and participants from 12 countries.
More information about the conference can be found here.