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XII EIPIN Congress - New Trends in International Intellectual Property Protection

XII EIPIN Congress - New Trends in International Intellectual Property Protection Alicante

8th - 10th April 2011

Presentations and materials

Friday 8^th April

Venue: Office for the Harmonisation of the Internal Market

16:00-16:15 Opening Ceremony

Amparo Navarro (Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Alicante) / Christian Archambeau, (Vice-President, OHIM) / Alberto Casado (Director General, Spanish Patent and Trademark Office), Esperanza Gallego (Director, Magister Lvcentinvs) / Maria del Mar Baldares (President AAAML) / Manuel Palomar (Vice-Chancellor for Research, University of Alicante)

16:15- 17:00 “IP Protection: a Path to Developing Countries' Empowerment”

Francesca Toso (Senior Advisor, Project Management Development Sector, WIPO)

Development Agenda for WIPO

Moderator: Guido Westkamp (Queen Mary IP Research Institute)

Questions from Team 1 - Discussion

17:30-18:15 "The future of the Trade Mark registration processes and tools. OHIM vision"

Juan Ramón Rubio (Director of the Trade Marks Department, OHIM).

Filing on-line a CTM, an RCD, an Opposition

On-line access to OHIM databases (CTM Online and eSearch Plus (Beta version)

On-line unic access to National Offices’ Registers (TMView)

Moderator: Verena von Bomhard (Partner, Hogan Lovells)

Questions from Team 2 - Discussion

18:15-19:15 “Managing Backlogs at the EPO, Recent Rule Changes and Unitary Patent”

Wim van der Eijk (Principal Director, Patent Law, European Patent Office)

IP5

CJEU Opinion 1/2009 on the Unitary Patent

Council Decision enhanced cooperation among EU member states for the creation of a unitary patent title

Moderator: Etienne Sanz de Acedo (OHIM / Associate Professor of Commercial Law, University of Alicante)

Questions from Team 3 - Discussion

19:15- 19:45 Round Table

Questions from Team 4 - Discussion

Saturday 9th April

Venue: Salón de Grados, Faculty of Law, University of Alicante

09:45-10:00 Welcome

10:00-11:00 “TRIPs plus and extra: Intellectual Property in Free Trade Agreements with Latin American countries”

Carlos Correa (Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on Industrial Property and Economics Law, University of Buenos Aires)

Correa, C. (2004) Protecting Test Data for Pharmaceutical and Agrochemical Products under Free. Trade Agreements

Moderator: Josef Drexl (Director Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law)

Questions from Team 5 - Discussion

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:30 “TRIPs minus: The Patent Law in India and flexibilities of TRIPs”

Xavier Seuba (Lecturer of Public international law, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

India Patent Act as amended by Act No. 15 of April 4, 2005

Spicy IP

Sudip Chaudhuri, Chan Park and K. M. Gopakumar (2010), Five years into the patent product regime: India's response

US-India Business Council (2009), The Value Of Incremental Pharmaceutical Innovation: Benefits For Indian Patients and Indian Business

Moderator: Aurelio López-Tarruella (Lecturer of Private international Law, University of Alicante)

Questions from Team 6- Discussion

12.30-13:30 “TRIPs?: IP Protection in China”

José Izquierdo (Head of Sector, Special cooperation programme, OHIM)

Moderator: AAAML Representative

IP Dragon

EU-China IPR2 Project

WTO Dispute DS 362: China — Measures Affecting the Protection and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (Complainant: United States of America)

United States International Trade Commission (2010), China: Intellectual Property Infringement, Indigenous Innovation Policies, and Frameworks for Measuring the Effects on the U.S. Economy

Questions from Team 7 - Discussion

13:30-15:30 Lunch at Restaurant Los Arrayanes (Club Social II)

15:30-17:30 Team working / EIPIN Representatives Assembly

17:30-18:30 “TRIPs double-plus: ACTA and Beyond - Enforcing IP"

Guido Westkamp (Queen Mary IP Research Institute)

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Act

Opinion of European Academics on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Act

Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan (2011) A Trade Agreement Creating Barriers to International Trade? ACTA Border Measures and Goods in Transit

Moderator: Christophe Geiger (Director General, CEIPI).

Questions from Team 8 - Discussion

20:00 Dinner at Cervecería La Piazza (Plaza San Nicolás, facing the Cathedral)

Sunday 10th April

Venue: Salón de Grados, Faculty of Law, University of Alicante

09:45-10:00 Welcome

10:00-11:00 “Jurisdiction in International IP Disputes in the Internet”

Pedro de Miguel (Professor of Private international law, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters

De Miguel Asensio, Pedro Alberto (2007) Cross-Border adjudication of intellectual property rights and competition between jurisdictions.

Moderator: Dieter Stauder (Bardehle Pagenberg)

Questions from Team 9 - Discussion

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:30 “Applicable Law to Intellectual Property Disputes in the CLIP Principles”

Josef Drexl (Director Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law)

Principles for Conflict of Laws in Intellectual Property (Draft)

Regulation 864/2007 on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations (Rome II)

Moderator: Guillermo Palao (Professor of Private international law, University of Valencia)

Questions from Team 10 - Discussion

12:30-12:45 XII EIPIN 2011. Diploma Ceremony

12:45-13:00 XII EIPIN 2011. Closing Ceremony

Christophe Geiger (Director General, CEIPI) / Manuel Desantes (Professor of Private international law, University of Alicante)

13:00-13:05 XIII EIPIN 2012. Opening Ceremony

13:30-17:30 Lunch at Casa Julio, Playa de San Juan