will be presenting the next talk in the Intellectual Property Seminar Series, on "Intellectual Property Strategies in Japan." Professor Takenaka is a leading authority in this field, and comes to us from the University of Washington in Seattle, where she is the Director of the Center for Advanced Study and Research on Intellectual Property, and the Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Intellectual Property Law and Policy. Professor Takenaka is also a regular visitor at Waseda University in Tokyo.
Once considered an esoteric specialty, intellectual property rights are now among the most highly-publicised, controversial, and dynamic areas of the law. Intellectual property lies at the heart of technological change, and accordingly, it confronts profound challenges. From patents for pharmaceuticals to music downloading, established approaches to the law have fallen short, leading to an urgent need for new concepts of law.
The Intellectual Property Law Program at UBC seeks to offer students, graduates, researchers, and scholars an outstanding opportunity for the study of current intellectual property issues. The program is informed by the ideal of studying intellectual property in context, and advocates an approach that is international, interdisciplinary, and socially aware