Objective
Experts from OHIM, legal practitioners and academic specialists will analyse significant developments in EU law on trademarks and designs since the last ERA conference at OHIM
in March 2010.
Key topics
- Uniform protection of Community trademarks: territorial scope of protection, distinctiveness though use, genuine use
- Non-traditional trademarks: numerals, logotypes, shapes, etc.
- EU case law on relative and absolute grounds for refusal
- Key decisions on trademarks and designs from the OHIM Boards of Appeal and the ECJ
- The advertising function of trademarks
- Trademark use on the internet: liability issues
- The future of trademark law in the EU: issues raised by the European Commission study on the overall functioning of the trademark system in Europe
Who should attend?
Lawyers in private practice, in-house counsel and other practitioners of law dealing with trademarks, designs and industrial property law
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Young lawyers and other groups
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Registration
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More details about the fees and discounts
Early registration discounts
10 % before 10.10.2011
Discounts available
25 % - For young lawyers up to 30 years of age (important: the participant must provide a copy or details of his or her passport or identity card on registration); Full-time staff of universities or comparable academic institutions; Staff of charitable organisations or comparable institutions; Employees of the Federal government and of the Cantons of Switzerland
40 % - Staff of European Union institutions and agencies;
Staff of ERA’s patrons (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany and the German states, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, City of Trier).