CEIPI's Newsletter n° 15 - February 18, 2011
CEIPI Conference at the European Parliament within the Framework of the EIPIN Network
On February 24 to 25, 2011, the CEIPI is organizing a conference at the European Parliament of Strasbourg on the topic: "Constructing European IP law: achievements and new perspectives", coordinated by Christophe Geiger, General Director of the CEIPI, under the high patronage of Mrs Catherine Trautmann, Member of the European Parliament and Alain Beretz, President of the University of Strasburg.
This conference is organized within the context of the 12th EIPIN Congress - European Intellectual Property Institutes Network - whose members are: the CEIPI of the University of Strasburg, the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute of the University of London, the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) and the Magister Lucentinus of the University of Alicante.
The creation of a European system of intellectual property rights arises numerous fundamental issues; this conference has the aim to examine the perspectives and opportunities for a factual harmonisation.
With this objective in mind, the CEIPI has gathered a panel of specialists - academics, practitioners and senior officials - from prestigious universities, research institutes, European institutions and offices to share their expertise and contribute to the success of this ambitious project. These specialists will feature a careful revising of the actual European legislative framework in the IP field, accompanied by an analysis on the prospective actions to be taken in order to harmonise the disparate intellectual property laws throughout Europe.
You can download the programme and the registration form.
Workshop - APRAM / CEIPI / University of Liège: Towards an « overprotection » of well-known trademarks?
The CEIPI, in conjunction with the University of Liège, is organizing the annual APRAM / Universities workshop on March 21, 2011 : Towards an « overprotection » of well-known trademarks?
The perimiter of protection of well-known trademarks has a tendancy to increase - through, amongst other, new functions attributed to trademarks by the Court of Justice of the European Union. This half-day workshop will examine whether such protection is compatible with freedom of competition and freedom of expression. It will also study, through an approach based on comparative law (Europe-US), how this increasing perimiter of protection takes effect and whether it is justified.
Christophe Geiger, Associate Professor, Director General and Director of the CEIPI Research Department, Yves Reboul, Professor at the University of Strasbourg and former Director General of the CEIPI, Adrien Bouvel, Associate Professor at the CEIPI and Barton Beebe, Professor at the New York University (NYU) School of Law (U.S.A.) and Visiting Professor at the CEIPI will participate to this event.
The workshop is to be held in the "Maison des Arts et Métiers" in Paris. A program may be obtained below. Please note that the meeting is open only to members of the APRAM as well as to students of the CEIPI and the University of Liège (students, however, must register).
You can download the programme of this workshop.
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CEIPI Public Lecture: Rethinking the Scope of Trademark Protection: The Failure of Antidilution Law in the United States and Europe
Within the framework of the series of lectures : "(RE)thinking Intellectual Property, Fundamental Questions and New Perspectives", CEIPI invite you to the public lecture to be held on Friday, March 18, 2011 at 2 pm.
Barton Beebe, Professor at the New York University (NYU) School of Law (U.S.A.) and Visiting Professor at the CEIPI will give a presentation on the topic:
Rethinking the Scope of Trademark Protection: The Failure of Antidilution Law in the United States and Europe.
You may download the programme of this public lecture.
CEIPI Public Lecture: Challenges for Protecting Innovations in the Information Age: Patentability and Protection Scope of DNA and Software/Business Model Inventions
Within the framework of the series of lectures : "(RE)thinking Intellectual Property, Fundamental Questions and New Perspectives" CEIPI invites you to a public lecture to be held on Monday, February 21, 2011 at 5.30 pm
Toshiko Takenaka, Professor at the Washington School of Law, Seattle (U.S.A.) and Visiting Professor at the CEIPI will give a presentation on the topic:
Challenges for Protecting Innovations in the Information Age: Patentability and Protection Scope of DNA and Software/Business Model Inventions.
You may download the programme of this public lecture and also the programme of the conferences for the academic year 2010-2011.
Visiting Professors
CEIPI is happy to announce that Toshiko Takenaka, Professor at the Washington School of Law, Seattle (U.S.A.) and Barton Beebe, Professor at the New York University (NYU) School of Law (U.S.A.), both Visiting Professors at the CEIPI will join the CEIPI team in February and March.
CEIPI Employment offers and Internship
Employment offers
CEIPI is recruiting a Post-doctoral legal scholar specialized in intellectual property with a French and/or international background. The successful candidate is expected to actively take part in ongoing research at the CEIPI, especially in the framework of European and international research projects.
We are also looking for a research assistant with a Master 2 or LL.M. in intellectual property law who is pursuing or would like to pursue doctoral studies.
Internship
We are looking for a legal intern expected to advance the educational ans resarch missions of the CEIPI.
Book launch ceremony: "Challenges of trademark law in the XXIst century" , Proceedings of the Symposium in Honour of Professor Yves Reboul
In June 19 and 20, 2009 the CEIPI organized an extensive seminar in honour of Professor Yves Reboul entitled "The Challenges of Trademark Law in the XXIst Century".
The proceedings of this seminar were published in the CEIPI series and the book launch ceremony took place at the CEIPI on January 31. On this occasion contributors were able to show Professor Reboul their gratitude and friendship.
From Left to Right: Jean Waline, Professor emeritus at the University Robert Schuman of Strasbourg and former President of the University Robert Schuman of Strasbourg, Joanna Schmidt-Szalewski, Professor emeritus at the University of Strasbourg and former head of the CEIPI Research Department , Yves Reboul, Professor at the University of Strasbourg and former Director General of the CEIPI and Christophe Geiger, Associate Professor, Director General and Director of the CEIPI Research Department
CEIPI Public Lecture: Law and economics, a satisfying approach for Intellectual Property? The fundamental role of behavioural analysis
Within the framework of the series of lectures : "(RE)thinking Intellectual Property, Fundamental Questions and New Perspectives" , a public lecture was held on February 8 at 5 pm.
Stefan Bechtold, Associate professor at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) gave a presentation on the topic:
Law and economics, a satisfying approach for Intellectual Property? The fundamental role of behavioural analysis.
You may download the programme of this public lecture.
CEIPI Public Lecture: From exclusions from patentability to exceptions to patentees' rights: possible, desirable, or inevitable?
Within the framework of the series of lectures : "(RE)thinking Intellectual Property, Fundamental Questions and New Perspectives", a public lecture was held on January 21 at 5 pm.
Lionel Bently, Professor at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) and Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) gave a presentation on the topic :
From exclusions from patentability to exceptions to patentees' rights: possible, desirable, or inevitable?
You may download the programme of this public lecture.
Two CEIPI students awarded the APRAM prize 2011
We are very pleased to announce that two CEIPI students, Mr. Pierre Moignet who obtained the CEIPI diploma in Trademarks and industrial designs for the year 2009-2010 and Miss Camille Auvret who is registered in the Master 2 in Intellectual Property Law and Valuation of Intangible Assets for the year 2010-2011, have been awarded respectively the 1st and 2nd prize of the APRAM (Association des Praticiens du Droit des Marques et des Modèles) annual contest.
A CEIPI student awarded the 2nd prize at the ADCI master thesis contest 2010
On January 7, 2011 was held at the "Maison du Barreau" in Paris the second annual contest of Masters Thesis organized by the ADCI (Association pour le Droit de la Création Intellectuelle).
We are pleased to announce that Miss Camille Rideau, who obtained in 2010 the CEIPI diploma "Master 2 in Intellectual Property Law and Valuation of Intangible Assets" has been awarded the second prize at this contest for her work on the topic "Position Mark: A category of signs eligible for trade mark protection? Different standards of examination, different scope of protection?"
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