The Speakers

Atsushi Aoki

SEIWA Patent & Law, IP Attorney,JP

Grégoire Bisson

Head International Registration Systems Legal Service, Sector of Trademarks, Industrial Designs & Geographical Indications, WIPO, CH

Douglas R. Bush

IP Attorney, Arent Fox, US

Danny Chen

UNITALEN Attorneys at Law, IP Attorney, CN

Mireia Curell

IP Attorney, First Vice-President of ECTA, Curell Suňol, ES

Wubbo de Boer

President of OHIM, ES

Arnaud Folliard

Lawyer at the Industrial Property Litigation Unit, OHIM

Paul Gallagher

SC, Attorney General, IE

Ellen Gevers

IP Attorney, Knijf Trademark Attorneys, NL

Jane Ginsburg

Professor Columbia University, US

Richard Hirst

Senior Attorney AT&T, UK

Robin Jacob

Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Jacob, UK

Michael Kiernan

IP Attorney, Tomkins & Co, President of the Irish Association of Patent and Trademark Attorney, IE

Gene Kim

KIM & CHANG, IP Attorney, KR

Norman MacLachlan

MacLachlan & Donaldson, IP Attorney, IE

Annick Mottet-Haugaard

Lawyer, Lydian, BE

Vincent O’Reilly

Director of the Department for IPPolicy, OHIM

João Pereira da Cruz

IP Attorney, J. Pereira da Cruz S.A., PT

Jeremy Pennant

IP Attorney, D. Young & Co., UK

Katerina Siotou

Lawyer, Law Office Katerina G. Siotou, GR

Jaap Spoor

Professor of Intellectual Property Law – VU University Amsterdam and Advocate - member of the Amsterdam Bar, NL

Alain Strowel

Lawyer, Covington & Burling LLP and Professor in the Universities of Brussels (FUSL) and Liège, BE

Oliver Varhelyi

Head of Unit D2 in the Internal Market and Services DG, Industrial Property Unit

Ulla Wennemark

Member of the First Board of Appeal, OHIM

Simeon Wilson

Director for Global Security AstraZeneca –counterfeiting in the Pharmaceutical industry

Jay Young-June Yang

KIM & CHANG, IP Attorney, KR