CEIPI's Newsletter n° 20 - April 02, 2012

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

CEIPI Conference on 26-27 April 2012 at the European Parliament: What Patent Law for the European Union?

On April 26 and 27, 2012, the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) is organizing a conference at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on the topic: "What Patent Law for the European Union?" coordinated by Christophe Geiger, Director General of the CEIPI, and under the high patronage of Catherine Trautmann, Member of the European Parliament.

The European Patent System stands at crossroads. Whereas an agreement on the European Union patent was expected, the creation of such an instrument has encountered certain difficulties. As a consequence, the European institutions decided to implement a European patent with “unitary effect” through the mechanism of enhanced co-operation. At the same time, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the CJUE) issued a negative opinion on the legislative proposals to create a European Patent Court. The need to reflect on the future of the patent system in the European Union is felt as never before.
In this perspective, the CEIPI has brought together renowned academics, eminent professionals, judges as well as institutional representatives in the intellectual property field for a conference on the question: “What Patent Law for the European Union?”

You can download the programme and the registration form. 

23rd International Meeting of the CEIPI Tutors

On 10 and 11 May 2012, the CEIPI is organizing in Strasbourg the 23rd meeting of its tutors of the International Section. More than 60 experts in European Patent Law coming from all over Europe are attending this meeting in order to share their experience and to attend conferences held by specialists in European and International patent law.

Several lecturers renowned for their expertise in the field of patent law have confirmed their participation in the meeting. Matthias Reischle, Deputy Director of the PCT Legal Division of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is going to give an updated presentation on the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). Cees Mulder, Lecturer at Maastricht University and CEIPI tutor, will be presenting the thesis he defended on December 2012 on "The alignment of the EPC and the PCT with the Patent Law Treaty". Derk Visser, European patent attorney and CEIPI tutor, author of the popular reference book "The Annotated European Patent Convention" and Patricia Escolar, Patent examiner at the European Patent Office, are also going to share their expertise with the tutors.

 As a major event of this meeting, the CEIPI is organizing a conference about the reform of the  US patent law held by Rochelle Dreyfuss, Professor at the New York University Law School and visiting Professor at the CEIPI. This event will also be the opportunity of exchanges between the tutors of the International Section and the CEIPI students.

Click on the picture of the brochure above to download the program in pdf version.

Christophe Geiger, Director General of the CEIPI, at the workshop on The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) at the European Parliament in Brussels

Recent events at CEIPI

The new challenges for a national industrial property office, the vision of the Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle (INPI)

The system of regional protection of intellectual property rights of the OAPI, a state of the play

Within the framework of the CEIPI series of lectures "Institutional, political and social perspectives on intellectual property", Paulin Edou Edou, Director general of the African Organization of Intellectual Property (OAPI), gave a presentation on Monday, February 27, 2012 on the topic:

The system of regional protection of intellectual property rights of the African Organization of Intellectual Property (OAPI), a state of the play.

You can download the programme of this event.

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Creators and internet: what evolutions for Copyright Law at the international level?

Within the framework of the series of lectures "(RE)thinking Intellectual Property, Fundamental Questions and New Perspectives", Daniel Gervais, Professor at the Vanderbilt Law School (USA) and Visiting Professor at the CEIPI, gave a presentation on March 19, 2012 on the topic:

Creators and internet: what evolutions for Copyright Law at the international level?

You can download the poster and the the calendar of this series of lectures.

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Upcoming Public lectures at CEIPI

Looking ahead: Reinstating formalities as a means for addressing some key challenges in today's copyright law

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 April 02, 2012.

Stef van Gompel, Senior researcher at the IViR (Institute for Information Law), University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), will give a presentation on the topic

"Looking ahead: Reinstating formalities as a means for addressing some key challenges in today's copyright law".

Click here to download the programme of this public lecture.

Patent reform or patent chaos: The America Invents Act - A step towards international harmonization or a step backwards?

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 May 10, 2012.

Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, Professor at the New York University School of Law (USA) and Visiting Professor at the CEIPI, will give a presentation on the topic:

"Patent reform or patent chaos: The America Invents Act - A step towards international harmonization or a step backwards?".

Further information concerning this event will be available later.

Participation of the CEIPI Team to symposiums, conferences and other events

The CEIPI at the EIPIN Congress "Intellectual Property and Imitation" in London

Within the EIPIN Network, CEIPI will participate in the congress "Intellectual Property and Imitation" organized by the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute to be held in London between April 20 and 22, 2012 at The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC1A 1PL.

Some selected CEIPI students as well as research assistants of the CEIPI and Professor Yves Reboul, Director of the French section of the CEIPI will participate to this event. On April 20, Christophe Geiger, Director General of the CEIPI, will chair the session on the topic "Reverse Engineering and Imitation in Software Law".

You can download the programme of this event.

We are also pleased to announce that the redesigned EIPIN website is now online. You will find information about the EIPIN congresses, partners and publications, as well as the network's history. http://www.eipin.org

The CEIPI at the Sixth Advanced Research Forum on Intellectual Property Rights: Selected topics on cultural and legal pluralism in IP law organized by the WIPO

The CEIPI will participate to the "sixth Advanced Research Forum on Intellectual Property Rights:  Selected topics on cultural and legal pluralism in IP law" organized by the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) to be held in Geneva between May 29 and 31, 2012.

Christophe Geiger, Director General of the CEIPI, will give a presentation on the topic "Harmonizing enforcement of IP rights at global level: Is ACTA the right answer?, Oleksandr Bulayenko, Research assistant at the CEIPI, will talk about "Conceiving an adequate system of access to orphan works: What role for collective management?" and Franciska Schönherr, Research assistant at the CEIPI, will talk about "Diversity versus unity: Reflections on the future of copyright law in the European Union".

The CEIPI at the International Conference "What are the good legal rules for regulating Internet ?" at the Court of Appeal of Versailles

Christophe Geiger, Director General of the CEIPI, will participate in the international conference "What are the good legal rules for regulating Internet ?" to be held on April 05 to 06, 2012 at the Court of Appeal of Versailles.

On April 05, Franck Macrez will chair the session "Des sujets de droit propres au droit du numérique ?"

Christophe Geiger will speak on April 06 at the session "Internet, un espace culturel : Liberté des auteurs /protection des amateurs et/ou liberté des amateurs/ protection des auteurs".  The topic of his speech will be "La propriété intellectuelle au service de la liberté d’expression".

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Christophe Geiger, Director General of the CEIPI, at the University of Belgrade

Within the framework of the double diploma in intellectual property law organized by the The Ss. Cyril et Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia, and the CEIPI, Christophe Geiger, Director General of the CEIPI, will give a lecture at the University of Belgrade (Serbia) on April 10, 2012.

The topic of his speech will be: "Flexibilising Copyright Law in the Digital Environment".

Christophe Geiger, Director General of the CEIPI, at the Conference "The Access challenge in the 21st century: emerging issues in intellectual property law and knowledge governance" at the Bucerius Law School of Hamburg

Christophe Geiger, Director General of the CEIPI, will participate in the conference "The Access challenge in the 21st century: Emerging issues in intellectual property law and knowledge governance" to be held on May 18 and 19, 2012 at the Bucerius Law School of Hamburg (Germany).

Christophe Geiger will speak on May 18 at the session on "Trade Marks and access to the marketplace" on the limitations of trade mark protection and on May 19 at the session on "Access and enforcement - ACTA in the EU and beyond".

You can download the programme of this event.

A new research assistant at the CEIPI

We inform you that Miss Elena Dan has been newly recruited at the CEIPI as Research assistant.

EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES

Visiting Professors at the CEIPI

The CEIPI is happy to announce that Barton Beebe, Professor at the New York University (NYU) School of Law (USA), Carlos Correa, Professor at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina),  Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, Professor at the New York University School of Law (USA), Séverine Dusollier, Professor at the University of Namur (Belgium), Daniel Gervais, Professor at the Vanderbilt Law School (USA), Hui Huang, Professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Jeffrey Samuels, Professor at The University of Akron School of Law (USA), Visiting Professors at the CEIPI, will join the CEIPI team in April and May.

Become European Patent Attorney with the CEIPI

We are pleased to present our new brochure which contains all the information concerning the training in European patent law and the preparation for the European qualifying examination offered by the CEIPI for the academic year 2012-2013

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Enrolment to the "Patents" and "Trademarks and Designs" diplomas for the year 2012-2013

Enrolment to the CEIPI courses leading to the diplomas in intellectual property with specializations in "Patents" and "Trademarks and Designs" for the year 2012-2013 is now open.

Deadline for enrolment is June 15, 2012 for the long tuition ("Patents" and/or "Trademarks and Designs") and August 31, 2012 for the accelerated tuition ("Patents" and "Trademarks and Designs").

Click here for further information concerning admission to the long tuition and click here for further information concerning admission to the accelerated tuition.

Enrolment to the CEIPI's Masters of Laws/Masters 2 (LL.M.) for the year 2012-2013

Enrolment to the CEIPI's Masters of Laws/Masters 2 2 (LL.M.) for the academic year 2012-2013 is open at the link below

https://aria.u-strasbg.fr/uds/

Deadline for enrolment online: June 15, 2012

Deadline for receipt of the application form: June 30, 2012

Click here for further information concerning the Masters of Laws/Masters 2 (LL.M.) in the field of intellectual property offered by the CEIPI.

CEIPI Summer School

For the fourth year, the CEIPI is organizing a Summer School on IP in Europe. The courses will be held from July 02 to July 07, 2012.

The course aims to provide an academic and practical overview of the IP-related aspects of the legal system in the European Union, as well as giving concrete ideas about IP litigation in Europe. The course is directed mainly at students and practitioners who want to acquire the basics of the European
IP system.

Click here for the fees and the enrolment form. For further information, please contact the registrar, Isabelle Christ at: isabelle.christ@ceipi.edu

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Professor Yves Reboul at the University of Tunis

There is a cooperation agreement between the Faculty of Law of Tunis and the CEIPI in order to facilitate exchanges of teachers and students of the Masters programmes in intellectual property in both universities.

Professor Yves Reboul, Director of the French department of the CEIPI, held a series of lectures at the University of Tunis on trademark law and on the drafting of legal briefs from February 20 to 24, 2012.

MISCELLANEOUS

A CEIPI student awarded the APRAM prize 2012

We are pleased to announce that Chloé Prault student of CEIPI Master 2 in Intellectual Property Law and Valuation of Intangible Assets  for the year 2011-2012, has been awarded the 1st prize of the APRAM (Association des Praticiens du Droit des Marques et des Modèles) annual contest for her work on the topic:

Le référencement sur Internet, menace ou opportunité pour les titulaires de droits de propriété intellectuelle ?

Two CEIPI Doctors in Law rewarded the Thesis Award Patent Litigation from Véron & Associés

We are pleased to announce that at the second edition of the Thesis Award Patent Litigation from Véron & Associés, the jury awarded the first prize ex aequo to Emmanuel Py and Caroline Rodà who both defended their thesis at the CEIPI.

Emmanuel Py has been rewarded for his thesis "The Revocation of Patents" and Caroline Rodà for her thesis "Civil Remedies of Infringement of Industrial Property Rights (French, Belgian, Luxemburg, German and British Laws)", published in the CEIPI collection n° 58, 2012 by Lexis-Nexis-Litec.

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Yann Basire, CEIPI Doctor in Law, qualified by the CNU to become an Associate Professor

We are pleased to inform you that Yann Basire, who defended his thesis at the CEIPI on December 8, 2011 on the topic "The Functions of a Trade Mark: Essay on the Coherence of the Legal Regime Governing a Distinctive Sign", has been newly qualified by the CNU (Conseil National des Universités) to become Associate Professor.

The CEIPI's job and internship offers

The 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 graduate (Master 2 or LL.M.) in the field of innovation law and the economics of intellectual property and for a legal scholar with a Master 2 or LL.M. in intellectual property law.

Finally, the CEIPI is looking for a legal intern expected to advance the educational and resarch missions of the CEIPI.

Click here for all CEIPI's job and internship offers.

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