Faculty launches 2023 World IP Day conference

Bookings have opened for the Faculty of Advocates’ 15th World Intellectual Property Day Conference.

The annual event, which is free to attend, will be held in person at the Mackenzie Building in Edinburgh and online via Zoom on Friday 21 April. 

This year, for World IP Day, the World Intellectual Property Organisation has chosen the theme of "Women & IP: Accelerating Innovation and Creativity". Faculty's guest speakers will include Laura Edison, director and general counsel at Skyrora, whose talk is titled: "It’s not rocket science… actually, it is!", and Leigh Kirkpatrick, managing legal counsel (outsourcing, technology and IP) at the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Open to all advocates, solicitors, devils, trainees, students and other professionals with an interest in IP, in-person registration on the day opens at 11.30am for a 12 noon start, with tea and coffee on arrival. The conference will run until 1.30pm.

It will be chaired by Roisin Higgins KC, an IP law specialist, and Graeme McWilliams, retired in-house lawyer and former IP manager at Standard Life.

In-person and online bookings can be made here.