Security interests over IP rights: here comes a seminar

For those who are interested in security interests in IP, here's a not-to-be-missed seminar, put together by our friend, scholar and one-time member of the IP Finance blog team Andrea Tosato. There is no fee for attending but, if you'd like to attend, please confirm your attendance by sending an email to Christina Burdis-Smith.  Details of this event are as follows:

SECURITY INTERESTS OVER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

A one-day conference to be held on 27 March 2015

Venue: Olswang LLP, 90 High Holborn, Greater London WC1V 6XX

Programme

Chairman:  the Rt. Hon. Lord Saville of Newdigate

8.30am             Registration and Coffee

9.15am             Welcome by Chairman

9.30am            First Session

                       Introduction to the Secured Transactions Law Reform Project

Prof Louise Gullifer, University of Oxford

            Security interests over IP rights under English law

Dr Andrea Tosato, University of Nottingham

                        A practitioner’s perspective on security interests over IP rights in the UK

Charles Kerrigan, Olswang

                        A lender’s perspective on security interests over IP rights in the UK

Benedict Smith, Banco Santander

                        Q&A

11.15am          Coffee

11.30an           Second Session

Security interests over IP rights: the view of the UKIPO

Tony Clayton, UKIPO

Challenges related to security interests over IP rights under the Canadian PPSA system

Prof Norman Siebrasse, University of New Brunswick

Security interests over IP rights in the USA: the UCC 9 approach

Steve Weise, Proskauer Rose

Q&A