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.

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).