Int Society for the History & Theory of Intellectual Property

Please share if you can, thanks @kathybowrey.bsky.social @glvbhr.bsky.social @annasaunders.bsky.social @lhst-epfl.bsky.social @be4copy.bsky.social

📣 Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual ISHTIP Workshop is out now 📣

Theme: Intellectual Property and Democracy

When: 25-26 June 2026

Where: Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract & CV deadline: 22 December 2025

More details:
ishtip.org/forthcoming-...

Please join us for the next online ISHTIP seminar:

Gerardo Con Diaz (STS, UC Davis) will be speaking

'On Judgment: A Critical Grammar for Computing and Law'.

Monday, 8 December 6am LA (PST)

More info and registration link:

ishtip.org/on-judgement...

Everyone welcome.

SAVE THE DATE 📣

International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP)

17th Annual Workshop

Intellectual Property and Democracy

25 & 26 June 2026

hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Call for papers will be circulated soon.

Thank you to everyone who attended yesterday's seminar from so many timezones across the world!

Today!

Link for registration is below:

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Making and Marketing Biocultural Heritage in Agriculture: From the Andean Community to Asia - Rosemary Coombe and David Jefferson. After registering, you w... Proprietary claims over seeds, crops, agricultural methods, and culinary knowledge exist as important forms of biocultural heritage in socioecological initiatives. These novel proprietary claims, exis...

Please join us for the next seminar in our online seminar series:

Making and Marketing Biocultural Heritage in Agriculture: From the Andean Community to Asia

with Rosemary Coombe and David Jefferson

Nov 17, 2025 07:00 PM (London).

Local time zones are displayed when you register below:

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Making and Marketing Biocultural Heritage in Agriculture: From the Andean Community to Asia - Rosemary Coombe and David Jefferson. After registering, you w... Proprietary claims over seeds, crops, agricultural methods, and culinary knowledge exist as important forms of biocultural heritage in socioecological initiatives. These novel proprietary claims, exis...

Please join us for the next seminar in our online seminar series:

Making and Marketing Biocultural Heritage in Agriculture: From the Andean Community to Asia

with Rosemary Coombe and David Jefferson

Nov 17, 2025 07:00 PM (London).

Local time zones are displayed when you register below:

Here is the recording of the first ISHTIP online seminar of the series: "After Patent Republic".

@hyoyoonkang.bsky.social diagnoses the current shift from neoliberal US-dominant WTO era to state capitalism and multipolar neo-mercantilism, and its effect on patent law's theoretical underpinnings.

📣 SAVE THE DATE 📣

International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) 17th Annual Workshop

Intellectual Property and Democracy

25 & 26 June 2026,

hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Call for papers will be circulated in November.

Thanks to everyone across the globe who got up early, stayed up late, and shared their time and thoughts in today's seminar.

Next one in the seminar series will be in about a month's time, please join us for:

Today!

The first in the seminar series is coming up next week.

You can register for a zoom link here👇

We look forward to seeing many of you online!

We are very pleased to announce the 2025/6 ISHTIP Online Seminar Series, which brings together scholars from around the world who explore intellectual property issues from theoretical and historical angles.

Please find below the programme, dates for your diary, registration links ⬇️

We are grateful to Brad Sherman, Carol Ballard, Sruthi Balaji at University of Queensland for their help and facilitation of the seminar series.

For questions about the seminars, please contact Carol Ballard at: carol.ballard@uq.edu.au

Date: Monday 18 May 2026 | Time: 4.00pm (Paris – CEST

The Legal Aesthetics of Copyright, How AI Unmakes Images

Speakers: Séverine Dusollier and Nicolas Malevé

Date: Tuesday 3 March 2026 | Time: 2.00pm (London – GMT)

Decolonising the heritage, AI and copyright interface: a cultural rights approach

Speaker: Paula Westenberger

Date: Monday 9 February 2026 | Time: 2.00pm (London – GMT)

Laissez Passer: From BIRPI to WIPO

Speaker: Jose Bellido

Date: Monday 8 December 2025 | Time: 6:00am (Los Angeles – PST)

On Judgment: A Critical Grammar for Computing and Law

Speaker: Gerardo Con Diaz

Date: Monday 17 November 2025 | Time: 2.00pm (Toronto – EST)

Making and Marketing Biocultural Heritage in Agriculture: From the Andean Community to Asia

Speakers: Rosemary Coombe and David Jefferson

Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025 | Time: 3.00pm (London – BST)

After Patent Republic

Speaker: Hyo Yoon Kang

We are very pleased to announce the 2025/6 ISHTIP Online Seminar Series, which brings together scholars from around the world who explore intellectual property issues from theoretical and historical angles.

Please find below the programme, dates for your diary, registration links ⬇️

YouTube video by ISHTIP Video Open Science’s progressive potential. A critical IP perspective, Seminar ISHTIP 2025

Our online seminar with Prof @kathybowrey.bsky.social on"Open Science's Progressive Potential. A Critical IP Perspective" is on youtube now, in which she diagnoses the potential and limitations of Open Science in relation to IP & other proprietary practices.

More online seminars to come in autumn!

Today!

We would be please if you were able to join us.

Registration closes at noon (UK time).

📣 If you miss interdisciplinary conversations about IP from the past few days, don’t fret …

Pls join us for the online seminar critical IP perspectives on Open Science with Kathy Bowrey @kathybowrey.bsky.social next Monday.

Info ⬇️

And it’s a wrap-up! Huge thanks to everyone who wrote, spoke, and participated in the 2025 Annual Workshop in Madrid!
We hope you had a wonderful and stimulating time in and outside the lecture theatre.
We will announce next year’s date and location in autumn and look forward to seeing you again.

We are on!

ISHTIP Day 1 in Madrid

What are the effects of technoscientific capitalism and the datafication of research on the concepts of author and inventor? Can the historic valorisation of the author and inventor survive the machine logics mobilised through Open Science and enhanced by AI?

Flyer for the event The same text is provided on the weblink in the original post.

📢 Joint ISHTIP/Warwick Law School online seminar with Kathy Bowrey @kathybowrey.bsky.social who will provide a critical IP perspective on the Open Science Movement

🕰️ 30 June 2025, 1-2pm (London), online

❗Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/warwick-la...

ℹ️ Info: ishtip.org/open-science...

We look forward to seeing you in Madrid or online on Wednesday and Thursday!