IP Summer Course 2023

June 29 to July 8, 2023, at the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski in Munich

We are pleased to announce the event series “IP Summer Course – Obtaining, Enforcing and Evaluating Intellectual Property Rights in Europe” also for the year 2023. From June 29 to July 8, 2023, in-house counsel, patent managers as well as IP experts are invited to Munich to learn about important aspects of obtaining, evaluating and licensing intellectual property in Europe as well as basic strategies of patent and trade secret protection in numerous seminars.

The course consists of the two modules “Patents and Beyond – Trade Marks, Designs, Copyright, Trade Secrets” and “Patents, Utility Models and Designs”. The modules can be booked individually or as a package.

The seminars will be led by BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT patent attorneys and attorneys at law as well as by renowned guest tutors from science and practice. The event will be held in English.

Highlights of the event

June 29, 2023, 7.00 p.m. and July 3, 2023, 7.30 p.m.: Opening reception and dinner
July 1, 2023, 1.00 p.m.: Half-day excursion to Upper Bavaria including boat ride on Lake Starnberg
July 7, 2023, 7.00 p.m.: Closing dinner at Paulaner am Nockerberg
July 8, 2023, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.: Full-day excursion to Upper Bavaria including a visit to Neuschwanstein Castle.

Please note: The fee includes all conference materials, lunch, coffee and non-alcoholic beverages, opening events and dinner, and the excursions on July 1 and 8, 2023.

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Part 1: Trade marks, designs, copyright, trade secrets

Period: June 29 – July 1, 2023
Location: Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski, Munich

Early bird fee until March 31, 2023: EUR 950.00
Regular fee as of April 01, 2023: EUR 1,140.00

Part 2: Patents, utility models and designs

Period: July 3 – 8, 2023
Location: Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski, Munich

Early bird fee until March 31, 2023: EUR 1,700.00
Regular fee as of April 01, 2023: EUR 2,404.00

Part 1 & Part 2: Entire event

Period: June 29 – July 8, 2023
Location: Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski, Munich

Early bird fee until March 31, 2023: EUR 2,550.00
Regular fee as of April 01, 2023: EUR 3,060.00

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Registration & tickets

Until March 31, 2023, early bird registrants may enjoy a 20 percent discount!

Program

Part 1: Trade marks, designs, copyright, trade secrets

Thursday, June 29, 2023

Moderator: Michael Hartig

9.00 a.m. – 9.10 a.m. – Carl-Richard Haarmann Opening address
9.10 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. – Carl-Richard Haarmann Obtaining trade mark protection in Europe –
systems and approaches
11.15 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. Coffee break
11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. – Andreas Dustmann Design vs. patent – protecting function by appearance? How designs can substitute patents
12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m. Lunch break
1.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. –  Silke Freund Copyrights – how to protect creative works including software
2.30 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. – Anja Ruge Unfair Competition / Passing Off – additional means to protect intellectual property
3.15 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. – Marianne Grabrucker Recent developments in German trade mark case law – Federal Supreme Court and Federal Patent Court
7.00 p.m. Opening reception and dinner

Friday, June 30, 2023

9.00 a.m. – 10.00 a.m. – Christian Schalk Regulatory challenges for trade mark development for pharmaceutical products
10.00 a.m. – 11.15 a.m. – Eckhard Ratjen Licensing and licenses – The European approach
11.15 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. Coffee break
11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. – Sebastian Engels Research & development, tech transfer – contractual issues
12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m. Lunch break
1.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. – Fabio Adinolfi Protection of trade dress – alternative and supplementary protection for technical inventions
2.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. – Peter Gross Trade marks in non-latin characters – approach of the EUIPO
3.30 p.m. – 4.15 p.m. – Lars Oliver Eggersdorfer Damage calculation, damage compensation, recall of products – the consequences of IP infringement

Saturday, July 1, 2023

9.00 a.m. – 10.00 a.m. – Carl-Richard Haarmann How to defend against IP-based attacks?
10.00 a.m. – 10.15 a.m. Coffee break
10.15 a.m. – 12.15 a.m. – Carl-Richard Haarmann & Volker Schmitz-Fohrmann Infringement of trade marks, copyright and trade dress –
a case study
12.15 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. Lunch break
1.00 pm Half-day excursion to Bavarian countryside, including boat ride on Lake Starnberg

Part 2: Patents, utility models and designs

Monday, Juli 3, 2023

Moderator: Michael Hartig

9.00 a.m. – 9.10 a.m. – Heinz Goddar Opening address
9.10 a.m. – 9.45 a.m. – Heinz Goddar To patent or not to patent – trade secrets vs. patents
9.45 a.m. – 10.15 a.m. – Karl-Heinz Metten Strategies of obtaining patent protection in Europe (national, EP, PCT, UPC)
10.15 a.m. – 11.15 a.m. – Sebastian Schlegel EPO procedure (search, examination, grant, validation, incl. patent prosecution highway, and obtaining an EPC Patent and/or a Unitary Patent)
11.15 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. Coffee break
11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. – Michael Hartig Novelty and inventive step under EPC
12.30 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. Lunch break

Moderator: Heinz Goddar

2.00 p.m. – 2.45 p.m. –  Giulio Schober Utility models in Germany – a useful weapon in patent litigation
2.45 p.m. – 3.45 p.m. – Andreas Dustmann Design protection in Europe
3.45 p.m. – 4.00 p.m. Coffee break
4.00 p.m. – 5.15 p.m. – Melanie Müller Protection of secret know-how in Europe
7.30 p.m. Opening reception and dinner at Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski, Munich

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

9.00 a.m. – 9.45 a.m. – Steffen Schmidt Patenting of software related inventions in Europe
9.45 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. – Jakob Valvoda Patenting of FinTech instruments in Europe
10.30 a.m. – 10.45 a.m. Coffee break
10.45 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. – Matthias Hofmann The EPO’s approach towards artificial intelligence
11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. – Alexander Thamer Software protection under copyright law and licensing software in cyberspace – selected issues

Moderator: Markus Engelhard

9.00 a.m. – 09.45 a.m. – Markus Engelhard Introduction to patentability of biotechnological subject matter under the EPC and the German Patents Act (PatG) – The legal machinery and case law/selected decisions
09:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. – Ute Kilger Plausibility, sufficiency of disclosure and inventive step of biotechnological inventions
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – Lara Gwinner Antibody and epitope patent claims
11.00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Coffee break
11:15 a.m. – 12.00 noon – Sibylla Grahn – Jose Pfizer Scope of protection of chemical and pharmaceutical patents
12:00 noon – 12:45 p.m. – Laura Haas – Oleg Lebedev SPCs and patent term extensions (PTEs)
12:45 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. Lunch break

Moderator: Heinz Goddar

2.00 p.m. – 3.00 p.m. – Christian W. Appelt Drafting and amending of EP claims
3.00 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. Coffee break
3.15 p.m. – 4.15 p.m. – Christian W. Appelt Opposition and appeal procedures at the EPO
4.15 p.m. – 4.45 p.m. – Felix Hermann Preparation of EPO oral proceedings of July 5

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Moderator: Felix Hermann

9.00 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. Attending EPO oral hearings (videoconference)

At the office of
BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT
Pettenkoferstr. 22
80336 Munich
12.45 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. Lunch break

Moderator: Heinz Goddar

2.00 p.m. – 2.45 p.m. – Beatriz Conde Gallego Standards vs. patents – competition law and access to technologies
2.45 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. – Felix Hermann Patent protection in Europe in the age of IoT and industry 4.0
3.30 p.m. – 4.00 p.m. Coffee break
4.00 p.m. – 4.45 p.m. – Georg Reitboeck America Invents Act (AIA): The effect on US patent litigation
4.45 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. – Martin J. Adelman The jury system in U.S. patent litigation – an inevitable “must” or can it be avoided?
5.30 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. – Aida Dolotbaeva
 Issues discussed at the Standing committee on the Law of Patents (SCP)

Thursday, July 6, 2023

Moderator: Christian W. Appelt

9.00 a.m. – 9.45 a.m. – Christian W. Appelt Patent litigation – the German bifurcation system
9.45 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. – Dr. Michael Rüberg Unified Patent Court – European patent litigation procedures
10.30 a.m. – 11.00 a.m. – Dr. Carl-Richard Haarmann Defence measures against enforcement of patents – preliminary injunctions, customs procedures, criminal actions
11.00 a.m. – 11.15 a.m. Coffee break
11.15 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. – Stefan Schohe Patent enforcement in Germany against partial infringement
12.00 p.m. – 12.30 p.m.- Andreas Lucke Patent invalidation in Germany
12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m. Lunch break

Moderator: Heinz Goddar

1.30 p.m. – 2.15 p.m. – Melanie Müller The status of legislation and court practice in accordance with the 2nd Patent Modernization Law in Germany – things to be done by 3rd Patent Modernization Law?
2.15 p.m. – 3.00 p.m. – Heike Wollgast Mediation and arbitration in patent disputes – the WIPO approach
3.00 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. Coffee break
3.15 p.m. – 4.45 p.m.

– Stefan Schohe

– Keiko Kawakami

– Georg Reitboeck

 Claim construction and doctrine of equivalents – a comparison between Germany, Japan and U.S.A.
4.45 p.m. – 5.30 p.m.

– Chloe Tai,

– Georg Reitboeck

– Keiko Kawakami

 Scope of protection of product claims, process claims and product-by-process claims – a comparison between Germany, Japan, United Kingdom and U.S.A.

Friday, July 7, 2023

Moderator: Heinz Goddar

8.45 a.m. – 9.15 a.m. – Heinz Goddar Ownership of inventions – employees‘ inventions in Germany
9.15 a.m. – 10.00 a.m. – Sebastian Engels Legal and commercial aspects of license agreements
10.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m. – Florian Kirschenhofer Max Planck Innovation GmbH – The technology transfer organization of the Max Planck Society
11.00 a.m. – 11.15 a.m. Coffee break
11.15 a.m. – 12.00 a.m. – Peter Berg IP strategies in semiconductors
12.00 p.m. – 12.45 p.m. – Elke Achhammer Industry-university cooperation – TU Munich as an example
12.45 p.m. – 1.45 p.m. Lunch break

Moderator: Heinz Goddar

1.45 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. – Sebastian Engels Technology transfer in Europe – competition law aspects
2.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. – Heinz Goddar Valuation of intellectual property rights – license analogy based approaches according to employees’ inventions remuneration calculation in Germany
3.30 p.m. – 3.45 p.m. Coffee break
3.45 p.m. – 4.45 p.m.

– Georg Kreuz
– Anton Wallner

 IP management and strategy in a global environment
– Business strategy needs IP strategy
– IP business management tools
4.45 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. – Nikolaus Thumm SEP/FRAND developments on EU level
7.30 p.m. Closing Dinner
at Paulaner am Nockherberg, Hochstrasse 77, 81541 Munich

Saturday, July 8, 2023

Full-day excursion to Bavarian countryside, including Castle Neuschwanstein.

Departure Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski, Munich, at 8.00 a.m.
Back at hotel at about 5.00 p.m.

Speakers & moderators

– Chiara Accornero,
Legal Officer, IP Disputes Section, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, Geneva, Switzerland

– Elke Achhammer,
Head of Patents & Licenses, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany

– Professor Martin J. Adelman,
Professor of Intellectual Property Law, George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

– Peter Berg,
Senior VP Intellectual Property, Infineon, Munich, Germany

– Aida Dolotbaeva
Senior Legal Officer, Patents and Treaties Law Section, Patent and Technology Law Division
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

– Dr. Beatriz Conde Gallego
Research Associate, Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany

– Keiko Kawakami, Patent Attorney
Partner of Innoventier LPC, Osaka, Japan

– Dr. Florian Kirschenhofer,
Max-Planck-Innovation GmbH, Munich, Germany

– Georg Kreuz,
Chief IP Counsel – Europe, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Munich, Germany

– Georg Reitboeck,
Attorney at Law, Haug Partners LLP, New York, U.S.A.

– Nikolaus Thumm,
Senior Scientific Advisor, ETH Board, Zurich, Switzerland

– Anton Wallner,
CEO Clarivate Deutschland GmbH, Munich, Germany

– Dipl.-Phys. Christian W. Appelt, German and European Patent Attorney

– Dr. Andreas Dustmann, Attorney at Law

– Dr. Sebastian Engels, Attorney at Law

– Dipl.-Biochem. Dr. Markus Engelhard, German and European Patent Attorney

– Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar, German and European Patent Attorney

– Dr. Sibylla Grahn, German and European Patent Attorney

– Dr. Lara Gwinner, German and European Patent Attorney

– Dr. Laura Haas, German and European Patent Attorney

– Dr. Carl-Richard Haarmann, Attorney at Law

– Dipl.-Phys. Dr. Michael Hartig, German and European Patent Attorney

– Dipl.-Ing. Felix Hermann, German and European Patent Attorney

– Dipl.-Phys. Dr. Matthias Hofmann, German and European Patent Attorney

– Dipl.-Chem. Dr. Ute Kilger, German and European Patent Attorney

– Dr. Oleg Lebedev, German and European Patent Attorney

– Dipl.-Phys. Dr. Andreas Lucke, German and European Patent Attorney

– Dipl.-Chem. Dr. Karl-Heinz B. Metten, German and European Patent Attorney

– Melanie Müller, Attorney at Law

– Dr. José Maria Pfizer, German and European Patent Attorney

– Dr. Michael Rüberg, Attorney at Law

– Dr. Sebastian Schlegel, European Patent Attorney and Trade Mark and Design Attorney

– Dipl.-Phys. Dr. Steffen Schmidt, German and European Patent Attorney

– Dr. Giulio Schober, German Patent Attorney

– Dipl.-Phys. Dr. Stefan Schohe, German and European Patent Attorney

– Chloe Tai, Patent Attorney, Lawyer

– Dr. Alexander Thamer, Attorney at Law

– Dipl.-Inform. Dr. Jakob Valvoda, German and European Patent Attorney

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