IP Summer Course 2024

June 20 to 28, 2024 at the Adina Hotel Munich

We are pleased to announce our “IP Summer Course – Obtaining, Enforcing and Evaluating Intellectual Property Rights in Europe” for 2024. In-house counsels, patent and trademark managers as well as IP experts are cordially invited to Munich from June 20 to 28, 2024 to learn and exchange information on important aspects of obtaining and protecting intellectual property in Europe.

While we are sticking to the tried-and-tested concept regarding the main features and the quality of the content, this year’s IP Summer Course will be fresh and revamped. You can look forward to new faces, interesting experiences and outstanding locations!

The program – subject to possible changes – is available below and as PDF for download.

We look forward to seeing you!

Program

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Overview

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

Period: June 20 to June 22, 2024
Location: Adina Hotel Munich
Fee: EUR 950,00

Part 2: Patents, utility models, including enforcement and licensing

Period: June 24 to June 28, 2024
Location: Adina Hotel Munich
Fee: EUR 1950,00

Part 1 & 2: Trade mark & patent

Period: June 20 to June 28, 2024
Location: Adina Hotel Munich
Fee: EUR 2.700,00

Registration & tickets

Register now! Cancellation free of charge is possible up to one month before the start of the event. The early bird discount of 15 percent expired on March 31.

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We look forward to your participation!

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Detailed program

Trade marks, designs, copyright, trade secrets

Thursday, June 20, 2024

Session I

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

Session II

1.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. – Silke Freund	Copyrights – how to protect creative works
2.30 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. – Fabio Adinolfi	Unfair competition / passing off – additional means to protect intellectual property
3.15 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. – Malte Nentwig	Recent developments in European trade mark case law – EUIPO and European Court
7.00 p.m.	Opening reception and dinner Office BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT Pettenkoferstr. 22 80336 Munich

Friday, June 21, 2024

Session I

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	Trade mark and design licences in the European Union
11.15 a.m. – 11.30 a.m.	Coffee break
11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. – Nina Rücker	Opposition and cancellation proceedings before the EUIPO
12.30 a.m. – 1.30 p.m.	Lunch break

Session II

1.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. – Alexander Thamer	Artificial intelligence and metaworld and their relevance for trade marks and copyrights
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, June 22, 2024

Session I

9.00 a.m. – 10.00 a.m. – Hannah Eckermann	How to defend against IP-based attacks?
10.00 a.m. – 10.15 a.m.	Coffee break
10.15 a.m. – 12.15 p.m. – Carl-Richard Haarmann & Silke Freund	Infringement of trade marks, copyright and trade dress – A case study
12.15 p.m. – 1.00 p.m.	Lunch break

Half-day excursion

2.00 p.m.

Half-day excursion to Nymphenburg Palace and Park and closing dinner

Patents, utility models, including enforcement and licensing

Monday, June 24, 2024

Session I

Moderation: Christian W. Appelt
9.00 a.m. – 9.10 a.m. – Heinz Goddar	Opening address
9.10 a.m. – 10.00 a.m. – Felix Hermann	Strategies of obtaining patent protection in Europe (national, EP, PCT, UPC)
10.00 a.m. – 11.15 a.m. – Mario Araujo	EPO procedure (search, examination, grant, validation and/or UP), comparison to GPTO procedures
11.15 a.m. – 11.30 a.m.	Coffee break
11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. – Christian W. Appelt	How to avoid pitfalls of EP prosecution (art. 123 (2), (3) EPC, art. 83/84 EPC, adaption of specification)
12.30 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.	Lunch break

Session II

2.00 p.m. – 3.00 p.m. – Martin Erbacher	Novelty and inventive step under EPC
3.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m. – Fabio Adinolfi	Design protection in Europe
4.00 p.m. – 4.15 p.m.	Coffee break
4.15 p.m. – 4.45 p.m. – Heinz Goddar	Trusted depository (TD) for trade secrets and data – useful/necessary supplement to patent protection
4.45 p.m. – 5.15 p.m. – Malte Nentwig/Malte Windeler	Protection of secret know-how in Europe
7.30 p.m.	Opening reception and dinner

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Session I A - IP & IT

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. – Daniel Herrmann	The EPO’s approach towards artificial intelligence
11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. – Alexander Thamer	Software protection under copyright law and software licensing – selected issues

Session I B - Biotech and Pharma

Moderator: Markus Engelhard
09.00 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. – Fabian Schmidt	Antibody and epitope patent claims
11.00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.	Coffee break
11.15 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. – Karl-Heinz Metten/José Maria Pfizer	Scope of protection of chemical and pharmaceutical patents
4.45 p.m. – 5.15 p.m. – Laura Haas/Alexander Rabe	SPCs and patent term extensions (PTEs)
12.45 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.	Lunch break

Session II

2.00 p.m. – 3.00 p.m. – Matthias Hofmann	AI as a tool for patent prosecution
3.00 p.m. – 3.15 p.m.	Coffee break
3.15 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. – Christian W. Appelt	Invalidation of granted patents (EPO opposition procedures/German invalidation procedures/UPC central invalidation)
4.30 p.m. – 5.00 p.m. – Felix Hermann	Preparation of EPO oral proceedings of June 26

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Session I

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.

Transfer to hotel Adina & lunch break

Session II

Moderation: Eva Liesegang
2.00 p.m. – 2.45 p.m. – Ed Haug	America Invents Act (AIA): 13 years later and the effect on U.S. patent litigation
2.45 p.m. – 3.45 p.m. – Eva Liesegang/Keiko Kawakami/Ed Haug	Claim construction and doctrine of equivalents – a comparison between Germany, Japan and U.S.A.
3.45 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.	Coffee break
4.00p.m. – 5.00 p.m. – Keiko Kawakami/Ed Haug	Invalidation of patents in US and JP

Thursday, June 27, 2024

Session I

9.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. – Dennis Kretschmann/Carl-Richard Haarmann	Patent litigation in Europe and Germany (national and UPC procedures)
10.30 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. – Carl-Richard Haarmann	Defence measures against enforcement of patents – preliminary injunctions, customs procedures, criminal actions
11.30 a.m. – 11.45 a.m.	Coffee break
11.45 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. – Andreas Lucke	Utility models in Germany – a useful weapon on litigation
12.30 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.	Lunch break

Session II

UPC mock trial

Moderator: Christian W. Appelt
2.00 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.	UPC mock trial, part 1
3.30 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.	Coffee break
4.00 p.m. – 5.30 p.m.	UPC mock trial, part 2
Legal Judge	Andreas Dustmann
Technical Judge	Dennis Kretschmann
Attorney at Law Plaintiff	Carl-Richard Haarmann
Patent Attorney Plaintiff	Christoph Angerhausen
Attorney at Law Defendant	Melanie Müller
Patent Attorney Defendant	Andreas Lucke

Friday, June 28, 2024

Session I

Moderation: Heinz Goddar
9.00 a.m. – 10.00 a.m. – Sebastian Engels	Legal and commercial aspects of license agreements, competition law aspects
10.00 a.m. – 10.45 a.m. – Florian Kirschenhofer	From lab to business – technology transfer within Max Planck Society
10.45 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.	Coffee break
11.00 a.m. – 11.45 a.m. – Elke Achhammer	Industry-university cooperation – TU Munich as an example
11.45 a.m. – 1.15 p.m. – Gabriele Mohsler (Ericsson)/Rebekka Porath (Intel)	SEP/FRAND developments – industry perspectives
1.15 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.	Lunch break

Excursion

Afternoon excursion to Lake Starnberg and closing dinner

Speakers & moderators

Guest Speakers

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

– Ed Haug,
Attorney at Law, Chairman of Haug Partners LLP, New York, USA

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

– Dr. Florian Kirschenhofer,
Senior Start-up & Portfolio Manager, Max-Planck-Innovation GmbH, Munich, Germany

– Gabriele Mohsler,
VP Patent Development, Ericsson

– Dr. Rebekka Porath,
Global IP Policy Director, Intel Corporation

– Christian Schalk, LL.M. Eur., M.A.,
Senior Trade Mark Counsel, Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH, Monheim, Germany

Speakers/Moderators of BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT

– Fabio Adinolfi, Attorney at Law

– Dipl.-Phys. Christoph Angerhausen, German and European Patent Attorney, Representative before the UPC

– Dipl.-Phys. Christian W. Appelt, German and European Patent Attorney, Representative before the UPC

– Dipl.-Phys. Dr. Mario Araujo, German and European Patent Attorney, Representative before the UPC

– Dr. Andreas Dustmann, Attorney at Law

– Hannah Eckermann, Attorney at Law

– Dr. Lars-Oliver Eggersdorfer, Attorney at Law

– Dr. Sebastian Engels, Attorney at Law

– Dipl.-Biochem. Dr. Markus Engelhard, German and European Patent Attorney, Representative before the UPC

– Dipl.-Chem. Dr. Martin Erbacher, German and European Patent Attorney, Representative before the UPC

– Silke Freund, Attorney at Law

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

– Peter Gross, Attorney at Law

– Dr. Laura Haas, German and European Patent Attorney, Representative before the UPC

– Dr. Carl-Richard Haarmann, Attorney at Law, Representative before the UPC

– Dipl.-Ing. Felix Hermann, German and European Patent Attorney, Representative before the UPC

– Dipl.-Phys. Dr. Daniel Herrmann, German and European Patent Attorney, Representative before the UPC

– Dipl.-Phys. Dr. Matthias Hofmann, German and European Patent Attorney, Representative before the UPC

– Dipl.-Chem. Dr. Ute Kilger, German and European Patent Attorney, Representative before the UPC

– Dipl.-Phys. Dr. Dennis Kretschmann, Patent Attorney, UPC Technical Judge

– Dipl.-Ing Eva Liesegang, German and European Patent Attorney, Representative before the UPC

– Dipl.-Phys. Dr. Andreas Lucke, German and European Patent Attorney, Representative before the UPC

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

– Melanie Müller, Attorney at Law

– Malte Nentwig, Attorney at Law

– Dr. José Maria Pfizer, German and European Patent Attorney, Representative before the UPC

– Alexander Rabe, German Patent Attorney

– Dr. Eckhard Ratjen, Attorney at Law

– Nina Rücker, Attorney at Law

– Dr. Fabian Schmidt, Patent Engineer

– Dipl.-Phys. Dr. Steffen Schmidt, German and European Patent Attorney, Representative before the UPC

– Alexander Thamer, Attorney at Law

– Dipl.-Inform. Dr. Jakob Valvoda, German and European Patent Attorney, Representative before the UPC

– Malte Windeler, Attorney at Law

Conference hotel

Adina Hotel München, Atelierstraße 22, 81671 München

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