IP Summer Course 2024

20. bis 28. Juni 2024 im Hotel Adina in München

Wir freuen uns, Ihnen auch für 2024 unsere Veranstaltungsreihe „IP Summer Course – Obtaining, Enforcing and Evaluating Intellectual Property Rights in Europe“ ankündigen zu dürfen. Unternehmensjuristinnen und -juristen, Patent- und Markenverantwortliche sowie IP-Expertinnen und -experten sind somit herzlich eingeladen, sich vom 20. bis 28. Juni 2024 in München über wichtige Aspekte zur Erlangung und zum Schutz geistigen Eigentums in Europa zu informieren und auszutauschen.

Folgen wir in Grundzügen und inhaltlichem Niveau auch dem bewährten Konzept, werden Sie unseren IP Summer Course in diesem Jahr frisch und runderneuert erleben. Seien Sie daher gespannt auf neue Gesichter, interessante Erfahrungen und außergewöhnliche Locations!

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Programm

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Veranstaltungsübersicht

Teil 1: Patents and beyond – trade marks, designs, copyright, trade secrets

Zeitraum: 20. Juni bis 22. Juni 2024
Ort: Adina Hotel München
Gebühr:  950,00 EUR

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

Zeitraum: 24. bis 28. Juni 2024
Ort: Adina Hotel München
Gebühr: 1.950,00 EUR

Teil 1 und Teil 2: Trade mark & patent

Zeitraum: 20. Juni bis 28. Juni 2024
Ort: Adina Hotel München
Gebühr: 2.700,00 EUR

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Detailliertes Programm

Patents and beyond – trade marks, designs, copyright, trade secrets

Donnerstag, 20. Juni 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

Freitag, 21. Juni 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

Samstag, 22. Juni 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, 24. Juni 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 p.m.
Coffee break
11.30 p.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

Dienstag, 25. Juni 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

Mittwoch, 26. Juni 2024

Moderation: 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

Donnerstag, 27. Juni 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
Moderation: 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

Freitag, 28. Juni 2024

Moderator: 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

Referierende & Moderierende

– 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