Forty Shades of Green! A Tour of the IP Landscape

Thursday, June 19

09.00-10.30 Annual General Meeting       Annual Meeting   11.00-11.30 Welcome by   Norman Mc Lachlan, Chair of the Organizing Committee, IE Paul Gallagher SC, Attorney General, IE Mireia Curell, President of ECTA, IP Attorney, Curell Suňol, ES   11.30-13.00 Musings of the Bards   Answers to topical questions from the audience to the Panel     Chair: Mireia Curell, President of ECTA, IP Attorney, Curell Suňol, ES Speakers: Margot Fröhlinger, European Commission – Director DG MARKT - Knowledge based economy Wubbo de Boer, President of OHIM Ernesto Rubio, Assistant Director General of WIPO     14.45-16.00 Green with Envy       Chair: Katarina Siotou, Lawyer, Law Office Katerina G. Siotou, GR Speakers: Global Brands in the Telecommunications industry - contentious strategies Richard Hirst, Senior Attorney AT&T, UK The challenges presented by counterfeiting in the pharmaceutical industry Simeon Wilson, Director for Global Security AstraZeneca, UK     16.30-17.45 Internet in the Landscape   Diverting Searches, Parking Domain Names, and Other Trade Mark Problems that Pop Up on the Internet       Chair: Annick Mottet-Haugaard, Lawyer, Lydian, BE Speakers: Jane Ginsburg, Professor Columbia University, US Alain Strowel, Lawyer, Covington & Burling LLP and Professor in the Universitites of Brussels (FUSL) and Liège, BE   Friday, June 20   09.00 – 10.30 There are two sides to every story     Evidence: i) Just how do you show your mark is distinctive? ii) Are surveys of any use at all? Chair: Michael Kiernan, IP Attorney, Tomkins & Co, President of the Irish Association of Patent and Trademark Attorneys, IE Speakers: Jeremy Pennant, IP Attorney, D. Young & Co., UK Douglas R. Bush,IP Attorney, Arent Fox, US Ellen Gevers, IP Attorney, Knijf Trademark Attorneys, NL     11:00-12:30 The road out is the shortest road home       Chair: Mark Engelman, Barrister – Head of Intellectual Property, Hardwicke Building, UK Speakers: Distinctiveness, descriptiveness and deceptiveness - in official dictionary streets and on the information highway Ulla Wennemark, Member of the First Board of Appeal, OHIM Opposition and cancellation proceedings before OHIM: Similarities and Differences Vincent O'Reilly, Director of the Department for IP Policy, OHIM     14:15-15:45 Patience can conquer destiny     EU Case Law Chair: João Pereira da Cruz, IP Attorney, J. Pereira da Cruz S.A., PT Speakers: Robin Jacob, Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Jacob, UK Arnaud Folliard, Lawyer at the Industrial Property Litigation Unit, OHIM Jaap Spoor, Professor of Intellectual Property Law – VU University Amsterdam and Advocate - member of the Amsterdam Bar, NL