ROUNDTABLE on Intellectual Property and Industrial Property (in the Era of Trump)

Wellcome Collection, London | 19 June | 3:30-5pm GMT

In-person and online & open to public

With @mbarber.bsky.social @kathybowrey.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social Vitor Ido, Svitlana Lebendeko, Caoimhe Ring, me

It’s not just Gambia.

We got internal cables, notes and other records that show how U.S. diplomats have intervened on behalf of Starlink in at least four other developing nations. All while the U.S. has withdrawn foreign aid from those same countries.

have suffered from extractive practices.

Time to move on with serious corportae partners and engaged investors - its time to let your monetary contributions speak for itself.

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That the Cali Fund will be directly allocated in such large meaure to communities that steward biodiversity is a win for all of us. If private industry is serious about partnering with states to restore biodiversity best not to resort to anticipatorily slinging mud on the very communities that

50% of funds for use of DSI is to go to IPLCs to meet purposes set out in the Global Biodiversity Framework. But its also first and foremost a way to set right the unfairness of the skewed ways in which 'digital biodiversity' is exploited.

An urgent thought about the Cali Fund and digital sequence information #DSI #CaliFund

Today I heard in a public forum for the first time claims that private entities are hesitant to contribute to the Cali Fund because of concerns that the money may fuel 'corruption'.

Today

I’m not going to retweet that NOAA propaganda post about deep sea mining.

Instead, I’ll tell you that I don’t know a single NOAA scientist who would promote deep sea mining in this way, because the available science we have does not justify exploitation of deep sea habitats for minerals.

'People in Corby help eachother'

Ratio is @lselaw.bsky.social rich, varied podcast- here Susan Marks talks to Roxana Willis about among other things, 'ethnography at home', being at Oxford and feelings in academia.
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Voluntary contributions by fund and by contributor, 2024. @who.int #WHA78

Political journalist friends!

Do you need some marine biology and ocean conservation expertise to explain why this latest lawlessness is also harmful and shortsighted? Let me help you find an expert source for your needs.

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St Ives forever.

St Ives tonight.

The Metals Company is trying to circumvent the International Seabed Authority and get the Trump administration to approve mining of the deep sea.

We have to stop seeing the ocean as a place to exploit instead of a place of wonder and beauty and an essential part of our life support system.

Yet another paper making a compelling case that academic activism is entirely consistent with the roles and responsibilities of scholars

There's a rich literature now and the case has been well made - let's shift the discussion from whether we should act, to how

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Was looking forward to attending ASIL - my first as panellist and BBNJ Prepcom in April. Being brown, residency in one country and citizenship of another feels precarious. Looks like I must revisit the risk-to-reward ratio assessment this weekend @marklemley.bsky.social

Book launch today - LSE is hosting the editors and authors of this hefty volume in a discussion to celebrate publication of the book. Join us!

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The Schmidt ocean jobs board has almost 1,000 job postings.

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Thought for the day from Susan Marks, Four Human Rights Myths (2012)
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'The point is not so much that melancholy per se; it is how the renunciation of hopes for significant and lasting change affects the prospects of such change. Fatalism is a politics because, and to the extent that, by treating actuality as though it were fate, activists help to make it become so.'

In Kenya parents who took their sick children to get tested for TB the day before Trump was inaugurated are still waiting to hear if their children are infected. People with drug-resistant TB are not being treated. A global health risk, delivered by the aid freeze www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

Many of you have asked what you can do to help fight the country's dramatic slide into fascism. If you are in house counsel, here is one important thing: send all your work to Covington, Perkins Coie, and other firms willing to resist Trump and that have been made targets for that reason.