Fifth European Intellectual Property Institutes Network Congress

Patent Litigation

Programm

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Day
Time
Title
Lecturer
Link to Documents
Team/s
           
04.12.03
15:00 - 15:30 Registration
 
   
  15:30 - 15:45 Opening of Congress
 
   
  TOPIC 1 SIMILARITIES AND DIVERGENCE IN APPROACHES

Chair G. Hertig

   
  15:45 - 16:30 11. Patent versus Utility Models
M. Brandi - Dohrn
Attorney at Law, Munich
        
1 & 2
  16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
 
   
  17:00 - 18:00 12. Arbitral Tribunals and Courts
A. Mondini
Schellenberg Wittmer, Zurich
        
3
  18:00 Drinks and Dinner
 
   
           
  TOPIC 2 LITIGATION STRATEGIES

Chair D. Stauder

   
05.12.03
09:15 - 10:00 21. EPO Strategies
U. Kinkeldey
Board of Appeal, EPO, Munich

TBA

        
4 & 5
  10:00 - 10:30 22. Commercial Court Strategies
T. Ritscher
Ritscher & Partner AG, Zurich

D. Brändle
Judge, Handelsgericht Zurich

        
6
  10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
 
   
  11:00 - 12:00 23. Pre-ligitation Strategies
W. Stieger
Homburger Rechtsanwälte
Zurich
        
7 & 8
  12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
 
   
  TOPIC 3 COMPARATIVE LITIGATION

Chair M. Blakeney

   
  14:00 - 14:45 31. Comparing France & Italy
A. Casalonga
Bureau D.A. Casalonga-Josse
Paris

Olga Capasso
De Simone & Partners SPA
Rome

        
9
  14:45 - 15:30 32. Comparing Germany & Switzerland
M. Brandi-Dohrn
Attorney at Law, Munich

M. Lutz
Lenz & Staehelin, Zurich

        
10
  15:30 - 18:30 Preparation Moot Court and Team Reports
 
 
  19:00 Zürich Sightseeing & Dinner
 
   
     
 
   
  TOPIC 4 KODAK MOOT COURT

Chair M. Ricchieri

   
06.12.03
09:15 - 10:15 41. Team Presentations

Judgement an Discussion

M. Blakeney
Queen Mary, University of London
G. Hertig
ETH Zurich
D. Stauder
Université R. Schuman, Strasbourg
        
11 & 12
  10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break
 
    
  TOPIC 5 CIVIL LAW AND COMMON LAW COURTS

Chair G. Hertig

    
  10:30 - 11:15 51. German Courts and Patents
A. Keukenschrijver
Judge, Bundesgerichtshof
Karlsruhe
        
13 & 14
  11:15 - 12:00 52. English Courts and Patents
M. Fysh
Judge, The Patents County Court
London
        
15 & 16
  12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
 
   
  TOPIC 6 EMERGING LITIGATION ISSUES

Chair H. Laederach

   
  14:00 - 14:45

61. Insuring Patent Litigation

F. Cuypers
Swiss Re, Zürich
          
  14:45 - 15:15 62. Using Empirical Data
G. Hertig
ETH Zürich
          
  15:15 - 15:45 63. Future of Patent Litigation
D. Stauder
EPA Munich & Université R. Schuman, Strasbourg
          
  15:45 - 16:00 Closing of Congress