The Speeches

Forty Shades of Green!

A Tour of the IP Landscape

Workshop : ASIA, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD - Trade mark updates; China, Japan and Korea

  • Chair: Gene Kim

KIM & CHANG, IP Attorney, KR

  • Danny Chen

UNITALEN Attorneys at Law, IP Attorney, China

  • Atsushi Aoki

SEIWA Patent & Law, IP Attorney, Japan

  • Jay Young-June Yang

KIM & CHANG, IP Attorney, South Korea

AGM

President’s Report

Annual Meeting

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

Musing of the Bards

Answers to topical questions from the audience to the Panel

Chair: Simon Reeves, President of First Vice-ECTA, AstraZeneca, UK

Interviewees:

  • Oliver Varhelyi , European Commission, Head of Unit D2 in the Internal Market and Services DG, Industrial Property Unit
  • Grégoire Bisson, Head International Registration Systems Legal Service, Sector of Trademarks, Industrial Designs & Geographical Indications, WIPO
  • Wubbo de Boer, President, OHIM

Green with Envy

Chair: Katerina Siotou, Lawyer, Law Office Katerina G. Siotou, GR

Speakers:

Global Brands in the Telecommunications industry - contentious strategies

The challenges presented by counterfeiting in the pharmaceutical industry

  • Simeon Wilson, Director for Global Security AstraZeneca, UK

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 Lière, BE

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 Attorney, IE

Speakers:

  • Jeremy Pennant, IP Attorney, D. Young & Co., UK

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

Opposition and cancellation proceedings before OHIM: Similarities and Differences

Patience can conquer destiny

Chair: João Pereira da Cruz, IP Attorney, J. Pereira da Cruz S.A., PT

Speakers:

  • Robin Jacob, Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Jacob, UK
  • Jaap Spoor, Professor of Intellectual Property Law – VU University Amsterdam and Advocate - member of the Amsterdam Bar, NL