Events 2013
Find out more about our events in 2013
Standards, FRAND, NPEs & Injunctions
5-6 November 2013
This two-day conference combines commentary from key industry and legal experts from the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the US on:
- Injunctions and jurisdictions
- Standards, FRAND and its use in Europe
- Patent portfolios
- Unified Patents Court
- Dispute resolution on licensing terms
- Competition considerations.
Read the IPKat report about the event here.
Question the Trade Mark Judges
16 October 2013
About the event:
A this joint IBIL and MARQUES event, the Chair, The Rt Hon Professor Sir Robin Jacob, posed a set of pre-selected questions from the audience to a panel of trade mark judges.
Speakers:
- The Hon Mr Justice Birss
- Allan James (Senior Hearing Officer and Head of Trade Mark Tribunal, UK IPO)
- Tony Willoughby, Dispute Adjudicator for WIPO and Nominet and Chair of Nominet Expert Review Group
- Anna Carboni, Appointed Person
The role of experts and scientific advisors in patent litigation around the European Union
11 June 2013
About the event:
The advent of the European Unitary Patent and Unitary Patent Court raises acute questions as to how the court is to receive, use and particularly evaluate expert evidence. It will involve something of an amalgam of UK and continental procedure. This day conference focused on the role of experts and scientific advisors in patent litigation around the EU. It has speakers from the USA, The Netherlands, Germany, UK, Spain, France, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and Italy. It also includes judicial input from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit of the USA, UK, Germany and Holland.
Speakers:
- Prof. Sir Robin Jacob (IBIL)
- Judge Sharon Prost (Federal Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit)
- Judge Edger F. Brinkman (Senior Judge, District Court of The Hague, The Netherlands)
- Judge Mine Reimnitz (Landgericht, Dusseldorf) Nigel Stoate (Taylor Wessing)
- Professor Michael Yudkin (University of Oxford; Scientific Advisor to the House of Lords in Kirin-Amgen)
- Dr Roger S. Newton (Former Director of the Chemical Research Division of Glaxo Group Research Limited, expert witness in several trials before the UK Patents Court)
- Professor David Limebeer (Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford; Expert witness in several cases and scientific advisor to the Court of Appeal in one)
- Christoph de Coster (Taylor Wessing, Germany)
- Pedro Merino Baylos (Baylos Abogados, Spain)
- Ruprecht Hermans (Brinkof Advocaten, Netherlands
- Thomas Bouvet (Veron & Associes, France)
- Jonas Westerberg (Lindahl Advokatfirman, Sweden)
- Klaus Ewald Madsen (Bech Bruun, Denmark)
- Andrea Mondini (Schellenberg Wittmer, Switzerland)
- Fabrizio Jacobacci (Jacobacci, Italy).
Professor Sir Robin Jacob's Inaugural Lecture - IP Law: Keep Calm and Carry On?
21 March 2013
About the event:
This joint Inaugural Lecture and the 2013 Bentham Association Presidential Address by Professor Sir Robin Jacob surveys the current state of important parts of intellectual property law both for non-specialists and specialists. It takes the form of a personal address to Jeremy Bentham and contrasts his pragmatic approach in the early part of the industrial revolution to the much more complicated way things are now. Particular criticism is directed at current law-making policy, and the overprotection of copyright and trade marks. Current attacks on the patent system by economists and competition lawyers are also considered, Professor Jacob contending that they are anti-innovation and pro-copyist.
Watch the recording of the Lecture here or read the accompanying paper in (2013) 66(1) Current Legal Problems 379-99.
Assessing confusion in trade mark and passing off cases
21 February 2013
Speakers:
- Tony Durham, Director of Shopper Insights at Procter and Gamble
- Dr Jane Leighton, Consultant at Nielsen Neurofocus
- Tony Willoughby
- Mark McKenna, Professor of Intellectual Property, Notre Dame Law School
- The Hon Mr Justice Arnold (Chair)