The Centre for Internet and Society, India (CIS-India) will be hosting the 4th Global Congress on Intellectual Property and Public Interest (the Congress) at New Delhi, India. Our institutional partner, and the venue for this year’s Congress is the National Law University, Delhi.
Here are some important updates:
Dates – 15th (Tuesday) to 17th (Thursday) December, 2015 (both dates inclusive) [and 18th (Friday) December, 2015]
This year’s Congress will be held over three days, from the 15th to the 17th of December, 2015 (both dates inclusive). Additionally, the venue will be reserved for an extra day (18th Dec, 2015) to accommodate non-scheduled follow up discussions, spillovers and allow for individually organized meetings/discussion sessions
Theme
The theme for the 2015 Congress is Three Decades of Openness; Two Decades of TRIPS. Discussions in all tracks, as well as cross track conversations will be tailored around this theme.
Tentative Agenda
Day 1 of the Congress (15th December, 2015) will be open to all interested participants, including representation from the government, the judiciary, industry, academia, research/advocacy/policy organizations and any others. However, Days 2 and 3 of the Congress (16th and 17th December, 2015, respectively) shall comprise closed-door sessions, open only to participants registered/invited for the Congress. An additional day (Day 4 – 18th of December, 2015) has been set aside for smaller meetings and discussions on existing or potential collaborations between participants; to continue conversations begun on Days 1, 2 and 3; or to have meetings/presentations/discussions which we might not be able to strictly accommodate within the agenda.
Tracks and the ‘Room of Scholars’
Proposed tracks include the following:
- Openness
- User Rights
- Access to Medicines
- Intellectual Property and Development.
These may be modified based on funding and logistics. We shall be in touch with more updates on funding + proposed agenda for each track + track leaders as soon as possible.
This year’s Congress will also feature an additional ‘Room of Scholars’. As in the past three editions of the Congress, since discussions in track sessions might be tailored towards evidence based policy making, a need was felt to create a space for academic conversation as well. ‘The Room of Scholars’ has been conceptualized as that cross-cutting space, not restricted to a particular track. but as running along side them. The ‘Room of Scholars’ will be an opportunity for the presentation of longer, more detailed academic research papers.
Venue – National Law University, Delhi.
National Law University, Delhi (http://www.nludelhi.ac.in/) shall be the venue for this year’s Congress.
Google Map Location – https://www.google.co.in/maps/place/National+Law+University/@28.599374,77.023701,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x14217e8eec6152fa
Accommodation
We’re negotiating discounted rates with various accommodation options close to the venue. We shall be in touch as and when we have more updates.*
Contact
Please feel free to get in touch with me via email (nehaa@cis-india.org) with your queries and suggestions; and I will be happy to share your thoughts with the rest of the team/connect you to someone else on the team. You may also get in touch with Swaraj Barooah (swaraj.barooah@gmail.com) who has come on board as manage and coordinate this edition of the Congress, as a whole.
