Basic concepts Criteria of protection Attribution of the right, content and limits Priority, registration EUIPO ACADEMY Introduction to Community Designs Henning Hartwig 10/11 – Class 22 EU designs and models; international registration – presentation by Lyubomira Tsvetanova 15/11 – 23, 24 (INPI – Dra. Susana Armário) International protection: European Patent Convention (EPC), Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) European Union Patent 17/11 Class 25 European Union Patent – presentation by Juliana Almeida & Guilherme Costa 24/11 & 25/11 – Class 26, 27 (25/11 is a compensation class in Room 123) Trademarks Function & object Absolute prohibitions Relative prohibitions Cases Libertel & Philips - Presentation by Carla Antunes & Amélia Oliveira Martins EU case law analysis Ac. C-104-01 - Libertel Ac. C-299-99 - Philips v. Remington Ac. T-128/01 - Daimler Chrysler Ac. C-273/00 – Sieckmann & others 29/11 & 2/12 – Class 28, 29, 30 (2/11 is a compensation class in Room 123) Trademarks (cont.) Absolute prohibitions Relative prohibitions Registration procedure: national, EU trademark, international protection Notorious and prestigious trademarks Case Daimler Presentation by Michele Debernardis Protection of logotypes – presentation by Hande Altınışık & Serra Kış The intervention of courts in the Enforcement of IP Rights: The calculation of damages for violations of IPR – presentation by João Soares and Chamir Tavares ACADEMY Introduction to CTMs Unitary Character and Absolute Grounds Florence Verhoestraete Relative Grounds Eric De Gryse EUIPO ACADEMY Enforcement of IP rights (overview) Olivier Vrins 6/12 – Class 31, 32 The protection of fashion by IP Law – presentation by Erik Mateasik & Petra Kovácechová ‘’The Great Bottle Battle - Coke v. Pepsi’' – presentation by Beatriz Martínez Iruela & Marina Garcia-Rodeja Ilka vs Milka (Hungarian case) – presentation by Fruzsina Molnár The WIPO arbitration system in IP Law – presentation by Sofia Dias 13/12 – Class 33, 24 on Trademark Law Cases: Louboutin v. YSL - – presentation by Miguel Viana
Google v. Vuitton – presentation by Viktoriya Veleva L’Oréal SA and Others v eBay – presentation by Alžběta Gricová Puma vs Sabel – presentation by Marta Fernández Vila Tiffany (NJ) Inc. vs. eBay Inc - presentation by Mariana Gomes and Ana Sofia Martins. 15/12 – Class 35 Unfair competition concepts Legal nature Main categories of infractions Presentation on ECJ cases C487/07 (L'Oreal) and C252/07 (Intel) – Mischa Schäfer Protection of know how - Irina Branco da Silva Indications about exam Delivery of essays UNTIL 18/12 25 000 characters maximum (approximately 10 pages) Font: Times new roman /Garamond, Font: 12, Line spacing: 1,5 It is mandatory to send essays in Pdf format to the following EXAM Optional (can be replaced by presentation of written essay + presentation + certificates in EUIPO Courses) but guaranteed to all students Possible presentations/essays (suggestions): Exhaustion of IPR and Competition Law (case law); Compulsory licenses in Patent Law (look at practical applications); Supplementary protection certificates for medicinal and pharmaceutical products – purpose, object, main rules; Arbitration of industrial property conflicts in the pharmaceuticals sector; The role of institutionalized arbitration in Industrial Property Law – advantages, insufficiencies, regime; Utility models and the registration of minor inventions – identification of regimes in various countries; Protection of logotypes; The protection of fashion within Industrial Property Law; Designations of origin and geographical indications; The calculation of damages for violations of IPR; Analysis of Case Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., et al, 11-1846, case record, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California All information and decision available here: