23 February 2016: Elena Izyumenko and Natalia Kapyrina in the top 3 of the ATRIP Essay Competition 2015
Ms. Elena Izyumenko, Doctoral Candidate and Research Assistant at the CEIPI and Ms. Natalia Kapyrina, Doctoral Candidate at the CEIPI, have been awarded – respectively – second and third places in the 2015 Essay Competition for Young Researchers in Intellectual Property Law of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP).
This yearly essay competition – that scored a record number of entries this time – examines papers on any topic related to intellectual property law in English or French by authors no older than 35 years of age.
Elena Izyumenko has been awarded second place for her essay entitled “The Freedom of Expression Contours of Copyright in the Digital Era: A European Perspective”.
Natalia Kapyrina has been awarded third place for her essay entitled “Le dessin de modèle : vecteur de l’harmonisation internationale du droit des dessins et modèles ?”.
The two papers are soon to appear in the Journal of World Intellectual Property.
Elena Izyumenko and Natalia Kapyrina are both Doctoral Candidates under the supervision of Mr. Christophe Geiger, Professor at the University of Strasbourg and Director General of the CEIPI.
Click here to access selected papers at the ATRIP Essay Contest website: http://www.atrip.org/Essays