BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT on tour again with Trademark Seminars.

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For the fourth year running BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is hosting its successful series of Trademark Seminars, to be held at a number of venues. Seminar dates and locations are as follows:
Munich Trademark Seminar – Munich, 29th September 2010 Düsseldorf Trademark Seminar – Düsseldorf 6th October 2010
Berlin Trademark Seminar – Berlin, 27th October 2010
Frankfurt Trademark Seminar – Frankfurt am Main, 1st December 2010 The seminars are chiefly aimed at trademark owners who have always administered their trademark rights themselves. Dr. Anke Nordemann-Schiffel, Dr. Martin Wirtz, Dr. Volker Schmitz-Fohrmann, Dr. Carl-Richard Haarmann and Dr. Ludwig Kouker will talk on different aspects of trademark law. Themes range from dos and don’ts in humorous advertising to warnings procedures following trademark infringement and protection of product design as provided for in the German MarkenG and UWG Acts. All seminars begin at 2pm and end at approx. 5pm.

Expanded 3rd edition of the EPC Guide for Practitioners has been released in Japan.

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The Japanese version of the 3rd edition of the well-known “EPC Handbook – Guide for Practitioners” was released recently (ISBN 978-4-7693-7180-9). This edition was also co-authored by BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT Partners, Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar and Christian W. Appelt, and translated into Japanese by the Japanese authors, Motohiko Fujimara, S. Nagaoka and Key Konishi. In particular, the third edition covers the extensive changes to the European Patent Convention (EPC) which came into force on 1st April 2010. Versions of the EPC Handbook are also available in China, Taiwan and India, as well as in Arabic.

“Industrial Property Rights on Insolvency” – Forum Seminar with BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner

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The Forum Institute for Management will host the seminar “Industrial Property Rights on Insolvency” on 27.09.2010 in Mannheim. The seminar will look at how industrial property rights can be protected in case of insolvency. Speaking at the seminar will be BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Dr Klaus-Dieter Langfinger and Dr Thilo Schulze (Grub Brugger Lawyers, Stuttgart). The seminar will also treat “the Transferability of Licences”, “Exploitation of Property Rights” or “Enforcement of Claim against Administrators”. The seminar is geared towards senior managers and staff and companies active in patent, legal and R&D departments as well as towards patent lawyers active in industrial property rights and insolvency.

International Copyright with Dr Anke Nordemann-Schiffel

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On 16 September 2010, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Dr Anke Nordemann-Schiffel will present a full-day seminar on international copyright law in Düsseldorf. The seminar forms the second advanced law module “Copyright and Media Law” of the DeutscheAnwaltAkademie. Dr Anke Nordemann-Schiffel will cover “International Copyright Convention, International Private Copyright Law”. Further information

GRUR Annual Conference 2010 with speech by Dr C. Czychowski.

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This year’s Annual Conference of the German Association for Protection of IP and Copyright will take place from 15 to 18 September 2010 in Hamburg. Speaking at the conference, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Dr Chrstian Czychowski will give a lecture entitled “Digital Contents: Work and/or Software?” on 16.09.2010. There will be a podium discussion following on from the lecture. The discussion will be led by Prof Gerald Spindler, University of Göttingen. The annual conference of the GRUR is one of the largest German forums for exchange between industry and lawyers in the field of intellectual property.

“Music, Marques, Merch & More” – Joint event at Music Week Berlin.

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On 9th September, as part of Berlin’s Music Week, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT, “all2gethernow” and medianet berlin-brandenburg are organising a joint workshop entitled “a2n – Music, Marques, Merch and More”. Underpinning the workshop is an acknowledgement that artists are no longer marketed solely through their music; they have long since become branded items. If an artist or label is to be positioned ideally in the market, a plethora of legal principles will have to be observed, the label may need brand protection and merchandising contracts will have to be drawn up. No less than three BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partners have been instrumental in the organisation of the event: Dr. Martin Wirtz and Dr. Carl-Richard Haarmann will be treating the themes of brands and merchandising in the music business while Dr. Martin Schaefer will chair the workshop. The all2gethernow (a2n) event is conceived as a platform and conference for a modern, forward-thinking music business and culture. It will be hosted from 6th to 11th September and take the form of a conference held as part of the Berlin Music Week.

Trademark law symposia in India with Dr. Ludwig Kouker

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On the 7th, 8th and 9th September 2010 the Indian Institute of Intellectual Property Research and Development (IIPRD) is holding symposia in Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi respectively. BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Dr. Ludwig Kouker will conduct the symposia with Robert Kenney of Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch LLP, USA, and Vinod Khurana of Khurana & Khurana, India. The spotlight will be on administering and expanding trademark portfolios in the international business sector and within the Indian, US American and European context. The seminars are aimed at CEOs, law department heads, authorised representatives and R&D officers.

Prof. Dr. Goddar at LES Cross Strait Conference in Shanghai.

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On 3rd September 2010 LES China, LES Hong Kong and LES Chinese-Taipei will convene in Shanghai for their second meeting (theme: “LES Cross Strait Conference: Technology Transfer and Commercialization”. LESI President Pat O’Reilley and LESI Past President Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar will speak as part of the “Global IPR Strategy” module. Prof. Goddar’s paper will bear the title “Price Differentiation in Pharma and the Conundrum of Exhaustion Principles”.

Prof. Dr. Goddar speaks at international IP seminar of Gorodissky & Partners in Moscow.

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From 29th August to 1st September 2010 the IP firm of Gorodissky & Partners is hosting the seventh international IP seminar. This year’s edition is entitled “Obtaining and Enforcement of IP Rights in Russia”. Among the speakers at the Moscow seminar will be BOEHMERT 6 BOEHMERT partner Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar, who will deliver a paper on the subject of “New Patent Invalidation Procedure in Germany” on 1st September.