Events
CUHK LAW CLINDS’s 18th Intellectual Property Law Series & CCTL Cross-Border Legal Issues Dialogue Book Talk – ‘Intellectual Property and Conflict of Laws: Notoriously Difficult or Notoriously Underestimated?’ by Prof. Marketa Trimble (Online)
27 May 2026
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm (HKT)
Online (Zoom)
Speaker:
Marketa Trimble is the Samuel S. Lionel Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Co-Director of the Intellectual Property Law Concentration at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She specializes in international intellectual property law and publishes extensively on issues at the intersection of conflict of laws/private international law and intellectual property law, and on cyberlaw, particularly on geoblocking. She has authored numerous works on these subjects, including Intellectual Property and Conflict of Laws (Edward Elgar, 2026), and is the co-author of a leading international intellectual property law casebook, International Intellectual Property Law (with Professor Paul Goldstein, Foundation Press, 6th ed. 2024). She has presented at conferences in the United States and abroad and is a member of the American Law Institute, the International Academy of Comparative Law, the American Society of Comparative Law, and other academic and professional organizations.
Discussant:
Prof. Dicky Tsang is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law where he currently serves as the Assistant Dean (Education) and LLB Programme Director. His main research areas are private international law and company law. His work has appeared in a number of leading international journals, including the Virginia Journal of International Law, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and the Journal of Private International Law. His works have been cited by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the Supreme Court of Missouri, and the WTO.
Prior to joining academia, he practised as a corporate finance lawyer at Linklaters and Shearman & Sterling, working in their New York, London, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai offices. He is admitted to practice in the state of New York, England & Wales and Hong Kong.
Prof. Tsang was awarded his LL.B. and PCLL at the University of Hong Kong. He also holds degrees from Georgetown University (S.J.D.), Columbia University (LL.M., J.D.) and University College London (LL.M.).
clinds.law@cuhk.edu.hk
Complex conflict of laws issues arise in cross-border transactions and cross-border litigation concerning intellectual property rights. The new book by Professor Triomble sets out the key principles of conflict of laws as they apply to IP cases and analyses essential conflict of laws concepts and rules in light of their practical application in the IP law context. Her presentation will highlight some of the key and recent examples of the intersection of the two areas of law.
*CPD credits are available upon application and subject to accreditation by the Law Society of Hong Kong (currently pending).
Language: English
