Welcome to ERA – Academy of European Law

Objective

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)