The Center for International Intellectual Property Studies is hosting, in partnership with the members of the EIPIN network and the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology & the Arts (Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland USA), the 17th EIPIN Congress, which will be held in Strasbourg, from the 28th to 30th January, Palais universitaire. The topic of the Congress will be “Intellectual Property and the Judiciary”.
The European Intellectual Property Institutes Network (EIPIN) was founded in 1999 and represents some of Europe’s leading institutes of research and teaching in intellectual property. EIPIN members are Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (University of London); Magister Lvcentinvs (University of Alicante), the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), the Intellectual Property Law and Knowledge Management (Maastricht University) and CEIPI (University of Strasbourg) (http://www.eipin.org).
The objective of the congress will be to study the role of the judiciary in the elaboration and implementation of IP law, to look at the way IP is applied in different court systems, be it in general courts, in specialized IP courts and quasi-judicial bodies as well as in specialized non-IP courts and to draw conclusions on how to ideally design courts in the future so that they can deal with IP in a balanced and most efficient way.
The Congress of Strasbourg aims to bring together a wide range of leading experts in the field – academics, judges, institutional – and to generate student working groups on the issues raised by the various stakeholders. Almost thirty judges and academics will be invited to confront their points of view.
Among the confirmed speakers we are counting: Vincent Cassiers, John Duffy, Martin Ekvad, Susy Frankel, Christophe Geiger, Daniel Gervais, Sam Granata, Jonathan Griffiths, Roger Kampft, Barbara Lynn, Stefan Martin, Cees Mulder, Tuomas Mylly, Craig Nard, Kathleen O’Malley, Aurora Plomer, Jens Schovsbo, Xavier Seuba, Dalindyebo Shabalala, Alain Strowel, Toshiko Takenaka, Erich Waeckerlin, Polk Wagner, Gert Würtenberger and Peter Yu.
Furthermore, the papers of the congress will be published in the EIPIN series by Edward Elgar.
The conference will be broadcast live on the Internet: http://utv.unistra.fr/ and http://www.canalc2.tv/.
For further information, please visit:
- EIPI’s web, www.ceipi.edu
- Spangenber Center’s web: http://us8.campaign-archive2.com/?u=7c399b49791d8364d25c0549c&id=e684affb80&e=
