Non-Traditional Trademarks Unplugged — Or Should Trademark Law Protect Aesthetic Product Features?

The Centre for Intellectual Property Policy, in collaboration with Lallemand Inc., welcomes Irene Calboli, Visiting Professor, and Founding Deputy Director of the Applied Research Centre for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia at Singapore Management University School of Law.

About the speaker

Irene Calboli is Lee Kong Chian Fellow, Visiting Professor, and Founding Deputy Director of the Applied Research Centre for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia at Singapore Management University School of Law. She is also Professor of Law at Texas A&M University School of Law and Transatlantic Technology Law Forum Fellow at Stanford University.

Until May 2015, she was Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore and Professor at Marquette University Law School where she was the Founding Director of the Intellectual Property and Technology Program.

Irene Calboli holds degrees from the Faculty of Law of the University of Bologna, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Queen Mary College London. Her most recent books include Diversity in Intellectual Property: Identities, Interests, and Intersections (Cambridge University Press, 2015, edited with S. Ragavan) and The Law and Practice of Trademark Transactions (Edward Elgar, 2016, edited with J. de Werra).

Free, and open to all.  A charge of $40 applies for lawyers seeking Quebec Bar CLE accreditation.