2026 Francis Gurry Lecture on Intellectual Property - SYDNEY
About this Event
5.30pm | Pre-event refreshments
6.00pm | Public lecture
The Future of IP Dispute Resolution.
The legal landscape is changing before our eyes. The advent of AI and digital assets, the internationalisation of dispute resolution, and the changing expectations of users, all pose challenges, and intellectual property has always raised issues of its own.
This lecture will examine the state of intellectual property litigation today in the wider context, consider where it needs to be in future, and look at how we need to adapt to meet the challenges.
The topics include the major legal problems in IP which will need to be addressed; the legal and practical impact of artificial intelligence; the importance of digital assets and tokenisation; and the emergence of alternative modes of resolving dispute resolution.
Colin Birss is the Chancellor (Head of the Chancery Division) of the High Court of England and Wales. Called to the English Bar in 1990, he practised intellectual property law. In 2010 he became judge at the Patents County Court (now IPEC), in 2013 he went to the High Court, and in 2021 to the Court of Appeal. He was Deputy Head of Civil Justice 2021-25, and appointed Chancellor in 2025. He sits in the Court of Appeal and in the High Court.
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