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.

Click on the following button to access a registration form including ticket booking from our service provider TicketMachine. Information on the protection of your data can be downloaded here.

We look forward to your participation!

The IP Summer Course 2024 has already taken place. Registration is no longer possible.

Detailed program

Trade marks, designs, copyright, trade secrets

Thursday, June 20, 2024

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
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

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
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

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
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

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
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

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
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
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

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
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

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
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

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

Afternoon excursion to Lake Starnberg and closing dinner

Speakers & moderators

– 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

– 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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Blick auf die Dachterrasse des Hotels Adina, in dem der BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT Summer Course 2024 stattfindet
Blick in die Bar des Hotels Adina, in dem der BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT Summer Course 2024 stattfindet
Blick in den hellen und freundlichen Tagungsraum im Münchner Hotel Adina, in dem der BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT IP Summer Course 2024 stattfindet.
Blick in ein modern eingerichtetes, helles Zimmer im Hotel Adina, in dem Teilnehmer des BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT IP Summer Course 2024 unterkommen können.

(The photos were kindly made available to us by the Adina Hotel. Copyright: Die Architektur Fotograf Leipzig für Interieur, Exterieur Werbefotografie und Filmproduktionen.)