Autumn conference of AGEM in DAV with speech by Dr Böckenholt.

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On 26 and 27 October 2012, the Working Group on Intellectual Property and Media (AGEM) will hold their autumn conference in the Deutsche Anwalt Verein (DAV) in Berlin and will focus on digital and social media. BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Dr. Rudolf Böckenholt, specialist lawyer for industrial property rights, will give a speech at this event on 27 October 2012 on the subject “Product Placement – and now? The separation rule from the perspective of media, press and competition law”. Directive 2010/13/EU was recently transposed into German law bringing with it changes for audio-visual media services, both for private as well as public broadcasting. The event programme is arranged so that attending it will allow a further training certificate pursuant to § 15 FAO to be issued both for industrial property rights as well as for copyright and media law.

New edition of the Münchener Anwaltshandbuchs Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz with BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT – authors.

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In the revised and extended 4th edition 2012, published at the end of September 2012, of the reference work “Münchener Anwaltshandbuch Gewerblicher Rechtschutz”, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Dr Rudolf T. Böchenholt has provided a revised version of his chapter “Camouflage of Advertising Measures”. The new edition brings the work up to date and takes account of the implementation of the EU Directive 2010/13/EU on audio-visual media services. This is especially relevant for Product Placement. Both case law and the literature have been updated to July 2012. The work is part of the Münchener Anwaltshandbücher range and can be accessed at.

Workshop “Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing” with speech by Dr Czychowski.

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The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will hold the workshop “Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing on 4 October 2012, which will focus on impulse and exchange of experience. Target groups are small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) that already have initial experience with these innovation topics or plan to become active here. BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Dr Christian Czychowski, specialist lawyer for copyright and media law, will give a speech here entitled “”Protection of Intellectual Property – Obstacle or Opportunity?” Further speakers include Prof Ellen Enkel (Zeppellin University, main speech), Andreas Clausen (Beiersdorf), Dr Holger Beruda (Procter & Gamble), Matthias C. Wendt (Innovationskraftwerk), Christian Bruch (SGL Carbon) and Melanie John (IHK Schwarzwald / Open Alps).

Speech on “Collective Licensing” by Dr M Schaefer in “Intellectual Property Journal”.

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The IP Osgoode Hall law School – York University, Canada, held a conference entitled “European Perspective on Copyright Law in the Information Era” in October 2011. The issue under discussion was: “Can Canada learn anything from Europe?”. BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Dr Martin Schaefer was invited to speak on the subject of “Collective Licensing”. This speech has now been included in the “Intellectual Property Journal” published by Carlswell Verlag and can be ordered online from the publisher: „Collective Licensing: Promises and Pitfalls“, in: Intellectual Property Journal, Toronto 2012, S. 133-142. Publisher: Giuseppina D’Agostino and David Vaver. ISBN: 0824-7064.