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Welcome to a tour of Africa—event set for April 13

A performance during the African Royal Fashion Show in fall 2023. Photo courtesy of the African Students Association.  

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All are invited to the African Students Association’s annual Tour of Africa— a celebration of the African diaspora with cultural foods, music and performances. Through these activities, the ASA hopes to share the vibrancy and diversity of African traditions firsthand.

Who: Open to the public What: Tour of Africa: Love on the Motherland When: Saturday, April 13, 5–9 p.m. Where: Rec Center, Lower Courts

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This year’s theme, “Love on the Motherland,” incorporates simulated weddings to provide attendees with a glimpse into the rich cultural heritage of the different African cultures. The “weddings” will feature couples from Ghana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sudan, Congo and Togo. The couples’ identities are kept secret and revealed at the event. 

“I have attended the Tour of Africa since my freshman year of high school, and there was nothing I looked forward to more than the annual performance,” ASA President Menna Tarekegne said.

“The performances stopped due to COVID-19. Reviving this event to be bigger and better has been a lot of hard work, but the Tour of Africa magic is back. We are so proud of the work we’ve done and grateful for the help from our performers, sponsors, vendors, and so many more!”

The event is Saturday, April 13. Doors open at 4:30 p.m., and food will start being served at 5 p.m. The event will begin at exactly 6 p.m. and go until 9 p.m. at the Student Recreation Center Lower Courts. The event is free, but registration is required . 

Tour of Africa is sponsored by CU student groups, including the African Students Association , Cultural Events Board and CU Student Government .

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UCL LLM graduate, Dheemanth Vangimalla, wins an international research essay prize

3 April 2024

UCL Laws LLM graduate, Dheemanth Vangimalla, wins the top award in the 4iP Council Research Awards 2023 for a paper based on his LLM research dissertation.

We are delighted to announce that Dheemanth Vangimalla, a recent UCL Laws graduate of the LLM in Intellectual Property Law has received the top award in the prestigious 4iP Council Research Awards for 2023 for his paper entitled ‘Plausibility and the flotilla: have the English courts drifted from the commodore’s approach to the evidential requirement for patent validity, and if so, is this divergence justified?’

The 4iP Council Research Award is an international research competition for European University students studying at Masters and PhD levels. It seeks to promote new ideas on topics pertinent to the interplay between intellectual property rights and innovation. Submissions, based on a student’s Masters or PhD research, are assessed by 4iP Council’s Research Award Jury made up of intellectual property experts from academia, government and industry. The papers are evaluated based on criteria including:

• Original thinking that broadens the debate on the chosen topic;
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• Relevance to current IP problems and debate

and up to three prizes are awarded (winner and two runners-up).

In his winning paper, Dheemanth considered the origins of ‘plausibility’ and explored the evidential requirement that the term represents. His research revealed that there is divergence between the EPO and English courts in the evidential standard applied by the two decision-making bodies when assessing patent validity. He argues that the English courts adopting a higher standard lacks cogent justification as the standard neither reflects a balance between the competing objectives of the patent system nor limits a plausibility assessment to its targeted mischief. 

This paper was based on Dheemanth’s dissertation for his LLM in Intellectual Property Law, which was also recently awarded the IBIL Prize for Top Performance in an IP-related Research Essay on the LLM . During his LLM, Dheemanth was supervised by our IBIL scholarship PhD researcher, Joshua Bradley .

As part of the prize, the winning essay has been published on 4iP Council’s website , which will be accompanied by a podcast interview with the winners in due course.

Having completed his LLM in the summer of 2023, Dheemanth has been working as a Research Assistant at the UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law  (IBIL), while also completing his bar exams. He will join Three New Square Chambers in the autumn as a pupil barrister.

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