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Every now and then, The IPKat team welcomes new contributors, says thanks and goodbye to existing contributors, and shares some news concerning the Kats. Let’s find out more!

InternKats

The IPKat is delighted to welcome the following as new InternKats for the next six months.

Jocelyn Bosse – Jocelyn is an intellectual property and information law lecturer at King’s College London, where she mainly teaches patent and trade mark law. Her work focuses on the relationship between intellectual property and plants, food, and agriculture. She holds degrees in Law and Plant Science from the University of Queensland, Australia, where she also completed her PhD. She enjoys sharing her growing collection of plant puns, regardless of whether her students and colleagues want to hear them. More details on Jocelyn here.

Aleksandra Czubek – Aleksandra specializes in IP law and new technologies. She is curious about implementing and regulating Web 3, blockchain and DE-IP. In her practice, Aleksandra focuses on IP management strategies in the creative sector. She is the author of Polish and international publications on IP law and its intersection with new technologies and privacy and a speaker at national and international conferences. More information about Aleksandra here.

Goodbyes

The IPKat says goodbye to PermKat Neil J. Wilkof (see Katposts here and here), GuestKat Giorgio Luceri, and InternKat Benjamin Goh, who continued to contribute to the blog.

We thank them for all their enthusiasm and hard work and look forward to continuing our collaboration in some other capacity in the future.

News

For the following six months, Chiara Gallo will continue contributing as an InternKat, and Kevin Bercimuelle-Chamot will be a GuestKat.

In other news, GuestKat Anastasiia Kyrylenko has joined the Universidade Católica Portuguesa as a postdoctoral researcher within a Horizon Europe project, “Promoting Fairness of the Music Ecosystem in a Platform- Dominated and Post-Pandemic Europe”, while SpecialKat Rose Hughes has been promoted to Director, Patents at AstraZeneca.

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