Pan
European Intellectual Property Conference, Patents & Trademarks
FOCUS
ON CHANGE For its 9th edition, the IP Summit is back to Brussels (Hotel Steigenberger) on December 4 and 5
2014, hotspot for a 360° birds eye view on the main Intellectual Property issues. Indeed, the newly elected
European Commission will have to define its new IP strategy and strengthen the IP infrastructure in Europe. Again in 2014, the IP Summit will be a unique opportunity to meet decision-makers and industry leaders and share views on the IP future in Europe and beyond. THE
IP AGE - After a century-long industrial revolution, and a few decades-long rise of a services economy, the world has swiftly
shifted into a knowledge era. This era has started with innovation at a pace and in proportions never seen before, and drives the increasing importance of intangibles on the
corporate balance
sheets, in international trade, in States productivity. In other terms, the new rules of global competition.
Modelled on the 3D printing topic, which raises several questions on its protection, the IP Summit 2014 will broach subjects as various as
Patents, Trademarks and
Copyright. Two days will not be enough to deal with the importance of IP in the boardroom on the one hand and the future IP guidelines in Europe on the other hand.
For the Patents part, the IP Summit 2014 will try to answer the last questions before the Unitary Patent (and the Unified Patent Court) comes into force. Indeed, some important questions should still find an adequate and effective answer. Will be tackled as well: new patents challenges, competition issues, patents strategies as well as topics related to life sciences, notably seeds patenting.
Regarding Trademarks, the focus will be on the new challenges that Trademarks have to face such as counterfeiting, filing issues and plain packaging... Strategies brought by the launch of the gTLDs have changed and still have to be understood. The European reforms will be of course part of the Trademarks programme.
For the Copyright part, the Svensson decision has clearly set up a new deal. Indeed, if the ECJ decision was very awaited, this latter has also raised new questions for Copyright practitioners. As several countries are discussing the future of their Copyright law, reforms are in progress. The
innovation and litigation sides will be also tackled during the yearly sought-after IP Summit 2014.
With a mix of keynote speeches, plenary sessions and workshops, these two days aim at discussing, with high level corporate and business professionals from the industry and representatives of competent public authorities, major and recent IP evolutions.
DESIGN
COPYRIGHT? What is the best method to protect novel features where innovation
involves patentable technology, artistic copyright and design. The above
vessel benefits from all three plus trademark protection, but how can a
small entity or sole trader afford such protection. Copyright is free and
lasts for the life of the artist + 50 years, design registration only
lasts 6 years and patents are disproportionally expensive with a short
life of 20 years. Considering the cost of development of disruptive technology, and there is almost no chance of the inventor seeing any
return whatsoever from his disclosure. A fairer way could be to grant a
patent to the inventor
on the basis of an application and processing fee in the usual way, but
then no fees after that until the invention goes into production with the
benefit of a bona fide licence from the proprietor. The patent would not expire in 20 years.
The 20 year countdown would begin from the manufacturing date. If the
majority of countries were agreeable to such modification of international
patent law, then the time for claw-back from the patent could be subject
to a sensible reduction, to say 10 years from the date of sale to
customers. The British patent
relating to the above vessel was published on the 17th
of September 2014.
THE IP ECONOMY
Two days will be necessary to tackle all the key issues: with a mix of keynote speeches, plenary sessions and workshops, this three-day-conference aims at
discussing major recent evolutions, actions, and ongoing reforms - with
the help of high level speakers from many organisations. AGENDA
- Thursday
4 and Friday 5 December 2014
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Schedule: Day One from 9.00 am to
6.00 pm - Day Two from 9.00
am to 5.00 pm
•Thursday
4 December: Morning Workshops
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NEW TRADEMARKS CHALLENGES
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NEW PATENTS CHALLENGES
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COPYRIGHT LEGAL CHALLENGES
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1.A.
Hard Time for Unconventional Trademarks
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2.A.
IP & Pharma, an Explosive Combination
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3.A.
Reviewing the EU legal framework
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1.B.
Genuine Use of a Mark
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2.B.
- 3.B. Focus on 3D Printing
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•Thursday
4 December: Afternoon Workshops
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DOMAIN NAMES & INTERNET
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PATENTS & COMPETITION
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COPYRIGHT & INNOVATION
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4.A.
Latest Development on gTLDs
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5.A.
Telecoms
at a Cross-Road
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6.A.
The evolution of fair use
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4.B.
Brand Protection in gTLDs Era
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5.B.
Standards & FRAND
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6.B.
Collective Mngt & Cross-border Licensing
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4.C.
IP Issues in New Media
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5.C.
Patent Pools & Consortia
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6.C.
Public performance doctrine
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•Friday
5 December: Morning Plenaries
· 2 Plenary Sessions on the Unitary Patent and the
Unified Patent Court
·2 Plenary Sessions on Trademarks
•Friday
5 December: Morning Workshops
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NEW TRADEMARKS ISSUES
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NEW LIFE SCIENCES ISSUES
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COPYRIGHT & LITIGATION
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7.A.
Plain Packaging: No smoke without Fire
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8.A.
Stem Cells Patenting
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9.A.
Piracy & Counterfeiting
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7.B.
Fighting Counterfeit
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8.B.
Patents on Seeds
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9.B.
Litigation Perspectives - Online Infringements
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•Friday
5 December: Afternoon Workshops
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REFORMS
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BEST STRATEGIES
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COPYRIGHT
TOOLBOX
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10.A.
EU Reform
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11.A.
Portfolio Optimization
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12.A.
Rational Practices for Global Companies
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10.B.
Focus on China
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11.B.
IP Monetization
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12.B.
Adaptation Rights issues
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State
of the art Wartsila diesel engine for oil tankers and cruise liners may
soon (in the next 20 years) become an outdated technology as solar and wind powered vessels
become economically viable due to clean air laws. PARTICIPANTS 3 Keynote Speeches
6 Plenary Sessions
26 Workshops
600+ Delegates
150+ Speakers
50+ Countries
SPEAKERS
John Veschi
CEO Rockstar Consortium
Paul Melin
Chief IP Officer Nokia
Ken Goldman
Chief Financial Officer Yahoo!
Bill LaFontaine
VP, Patents, Software & Services IP Licensing IBM
Jean-François Serrier
Senior Executive Vice-President, General Manager IP Solvay
André Gorius
Executive Vice-President, Licensing & Technical Knowledge Solvay
Sean Peace
Chief Executive Officer The Royalty Exchange
Russell L. Stein
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer Intellectual Ventures
Alireza Etemad
Global Head of Corporate Finance SEB Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken
John C. Lindgren
President & Chief Executive Officer Conversant IP
Edward G. Black
Partner Ropes & Gray LLP
Vikas M. Keswani
Managing Director Highbridge Principal Strategies, LLC
Devon Parekh
Managing Partner Insight Partners
Jorge M. Torres
Founder Torres Venture Law Group LLC
Research
& production
and
Knowledge
partners
and
Sponsors
Partners
Media
BRUSSELS Brussels serves as capital of the European Union, hosting the major political institutions of the Union. The EU has not declared a capital formally, though the Treaty of
Amsterdam formally gives Brussels the seat of the European Commission (the executive/government branch) and the Council of the European Union (a legislative institution made up from executives of member states). It locates the formal seat of European Parliament in the
French city of Strasbourg, where votes take place with the Council on the proposals made by the Commission. However meetings of political groups and committee groups are formally given to Brussels along with a set number of plenary sessions. Three quarters of Parliament now takes place at its Brussels hemicycle. Between 2002 and 2004, the European Council also fixed its seat in the city. In 2014, the Union hosted a G7 summit in the city.
LEFT
- The first Floral Carpet in its present-day form was created in 1971 on the Grand Place by the landscape architect E. Stautemans and has been hugely popular ever since. It can often take up to a year to plan the carpets using scale models and illustrations for the bi-annual events. But with the experience and skills of a hundred gardeners, the final jigsaw can be pieced together in under four hours. The Grand Place, the central square of Brussels, is surrounded by guildhalls, the city's Town Hall and the Breadhouse and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. RIGHT
- Fifty years ago, Brussels invited the world over for the first World's Fair after the death and destruction of World War II. Expo 2008 will be held later this year in
Zaragoza, Spain, but Brussels is celebrating anyway with exhibitions like "Expo '58: Between Utopia and Reality," in conjunction with the renovation of the fair's most durable remnant, the
Atomium. Built in the shape of a crystallized molecule of iron, the
Atomium, like the Eiffel
Tower, was intended to be a temporary monument but ended up redefining the city where it was constructed. After the jump, another startling view of the Atomium and some more history.
Brussels, along with Luxembourg and
Strasbourg, began to host institutions in 1957, soon becoming the centre of activities as the Commission and Council based their activities in what has become the "European Quarter". Early building in Brussels was sporadic and uncontrolled with little planning, the current major buildings are the Berlaymont building of the Commission, symbolic of the quarter as a whole, the Justus Lipsius building of the Council and the Espace Léopold of Parliament. Today the presence has increased considerably with the Commission alone occupying 865,000 m2 within the "European Quarter" in the east of the city (a quarter of the total office space in Brussels). The concentration and density has caused concern that the presence of the institutions has caused a "ghetto effect" in that part of the city. However the presence has contributed significantly to the importance of Brussels as an international centre.
HISTORY
Brussels (French: Bruxelles, Dutch: Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (French: Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Dutch: Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is the capital and largest city of
Belgium and the de facto capital of the
European Union (EU). It is also the largest urban area in Belgium, comprising 19 municipalities, including the municipality of the City of Brussels, which de jure is the capital of Belgium, in addition to the seat of the French Community of Belgium and of the Flemish Community.
Brussels has grown from a 10th-century fortress town founded by a descendant of Charlemagne to a sizeable
city. The city has a population of 1.2 million and a metropolitan area with a population of over 1.8 million, both of them the largest in Belgium.
Since the end of the Second World
War, Brussels has been a major centre for international politics. Hosting principal EU institutions, the secretariat of the Benelux and the headquarters of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO), the city has become the polyglot home of numerous international organisations, politicians, diplomats and civil servants.
Brussels is just a few miles north of the boundary between Belgium's language
communities - French in the south,
Dutch in the North. Historically a Dutch-speaking city, it has seen a major shift to French since Belgian independence in 1830. Today, although the majority language is French, the city is officially bilingual. All road signs, street names, and many advertisements and services are shown in both languages. Brussels is increasingly becoming multilingual with increasing numbers of migrants, expatriates and minority groups speaking their own languages.
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TOPICS
. IP Reforms
. Patents
Strategies
. IP Industry Challenges
. Unitary Patent & Unitary Patent Court
. IP States
. Internet
. Design
. Anti-counterfeiting
. Trademarks protection
The ambition of this 9th Pan-European IP Summit is to showcase the best practices and debate the emerging trends, giving you the keys to succeed in
the IP Economy.
LINKS
& REFERENCE http://www.ipsummit.info/ http://visitbrussels.be/bitc/front/home/display/lg/en/section/visiteur.do http://www.lonelyplanet.com/belgium/brussels http://wikitravel.org/en/Brussels http://www.brusselsairlines.com/ http://www.brussels.info/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels http://www.short-breaks.com/city-breaks/Belgium/Brussels http://www.atomium.be/ Atomium http://www.premiercercle.com/sites/ipsummit/2013/paris2013/ www.ipsummit.info https://twitter.com/IPSummit
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