IPBio

We are an international group of scholars and legal professionals with a shared research interest in intellectual property in the biosciences and current policy. The network's participants hail from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds including law, philosophy, history, sociology and science studies. We seek to encourage an interdisciplinary and intersectoral conversation on the past, present and future of IP in the biosciences.

The network was established in Berlin, 2008 at the Living Properties Workshop, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. In 2012 a second workshop, Plants, Animals and Ownership, was held at Yale University. Further public events have been held at the University of Leeds, University of York, University of Exeter, University of Montpellier and Griffith University. The network has been hosted and supported by the MPIWG, the Universities of Exeter, Griffith, Leeds and Oxford, ACIPA, and from 2023, University of Queensland.