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 November 2011.
Key topics
- The new role of OHIM regarding the protection of IP rights
- Identification of goods and services and use of class headings: practical implications of the ECJ's ruling in IP TRANSLATOR
- Public interest and trade mark law
- Shape giving substantial value to goods
- Registration of a name as a trade mark
- Recent decisions on designs
- Trade mark infringements: competent jurisdiction, proof of trade mark rights infringement after the CJEU's ruling on the Philips and Nokia cases.
Who should attend?
Lawyers in private practice, in-house counsel and other practitioners of law dealing with trade marks, designs and industrial property law.
Please note the change of conference venue
- 1st day, 15 November: Hotel Meliá Alicante (Plaza Puerto del Mar, 3)
conference room Terra Lucis
- 2nd day, 16 November: room Jean Claude Combaldieu at OHIM (Avenida de Europa, 4)
For the second day we offer a shuttle bus from the Hotel Meliá Alicante to the OHIM and return (Please see attached document: important information)
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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 discount
10 % before 15.10.2012
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).