Question the trade mark judges 2016

UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law (IBIL) and MARQUES, the European Association of Trade Mark Owners, invite you to meet and question some of the judges that are or were until recently deciding our trade mark disputes.

The chair The Rt Hon Professor Sir Robin Jacob will pose a set of pre-selected questions from the audience to:

• Paolo Catallozzi (Judge of the Enterprise Court of Rome)
• The Hon Mr Justice Carr
• Judge Christopher Vajda (Court of Justice of the European Union)
• Oliver Morris (UK Intellectual Property Office Senior Hearing Officer)

This event is accredited with 1.5 CPD hours by the SRA and BSB. It constitutes relevant CPD with IPReg.

About the panellists

Sir Henry Carr studied jurisprudence at Hertford College Oxford and obtained an LLM from the University of British Columbia for a thesis on legal protection of computer programs. He was called to the bar in 1982 and took silk in 1998. He specialised in all aspects of intellectual property law. He was appointed as a Deputy High Court Judge in 2007 and was chairman of the Intellectual Property Bar Association from 2012 until his appointment to the High Court Bench, Chancery Division, in October 2015.

Judge Christhopher Vajda was Born 1955; law degree from Cambridge University; licence spéciale en droit européen at the Université libre de Bruxelles (grande distinction); called to the Bar of England and Wales by Gray’s Inn (1979); Barrister (1979-2012); called to the Bar of Northern Ireland (1996); Queen’s Counsel (1997); Bencher of Gray’s Inn (2003); Recorder of the Crown Court (2003-12); Treasurer of the United Kingdom Association for European Law (2001-12); contributor to 3rd to 6th eds of European Community Law of Competition (Bellamy and Child); Judge at the Court of Justice since 8 October 2012.

Oliver Morris is a Principal Hearing Officer in the Trade Marks and Designs Tribunal. He is a life-long trade mark specialist having worked in the Intellectual Property Office’s trade marks division since 1991. He has performed a number of key technical and managerial roles over the years including work on the introduction of various new pieces of legislation including the relative grounds changes and the proof of use regime. As a Principal Hearing Officer, Oliver performs a quasi-judicial role, hearing and deciding the full range of contentious trade mark opposition, post registration, and design validity disputes. In 2008 he became one of the first Company Name Adjudicators appointed under the Companies Act to resolve conflicts between registered company names and trade names.

Schedule

17:30 Registration – Cruciform Building foyer
18:00 Welcome – Question the Panel
19:30 Reception – North Cloisters