Seminar on Intellectual Property and Private International Law - WIPO Headquarters (Geneva)

Seminar on Intellectual Property and Private International Law

WIPO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland

January 16, 2015

Organized by The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and The International Law Association (ILA)

PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

13.00 – 13.30: Registration

13.30 – 13.45: Opening Remarks

Mr. Minelik Alemu Getahun, Assistant Director General, Global Issues Sector, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Professor Toshiyuki Kono, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; Chair of the International Law Association (ILA) Intellectual Property and Private International Law Committee

13.45 – 14.20: WIPO and Private International Law

Speakers: Ms. Eun-Joo Min, Senior Legal Counsellor, Building Respect for IP Division, WIPO

Professor Andrew Christie, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

14.20 – 14.35: The Work of the Hague Conference on Private International Law

Speaker: Ms. Marta Pertegás, First Secretary, Hague Conference on Private International Law

14.35 – 15.30: Outline of Preceding Projects

Moderator: Professor Stefania Bariatti, University of Milan, School of Law, Milan, Italy

1) American Law Institute (ALI)

Speakers: Professor Jane Ginsburg, Columbia University, New York, United States of America

Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss, New York University, New York, United States of America

2) The European Max-Planck Group on Conflict of Laws in Intellectual Property (CLIP)

Speaker: Professor Josef Drexl, Max-Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany

3) Transparency Project

Speaker: Professor Kono

4) Japan-Korea Principles Project

Speaker: Professor Gyooho Lee, Chung Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break

16.00 – 16.15 The Mission of the ILA Committee on Intellectual Property and Private International Law

Speaker: Professor Kono

16.15 – 17.20 Selected Issues from the ILA Committee Guidelines

Moderator: Professor Joost Blom, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

1) Jurisdiction

Speakers: Professor Axel Metzger, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Professor Benedetta Ubertazzi, Macerata University, Macerata, Italy

2) Applicable Law

Speakers: Professor Pedro de Miguel Asensio, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Professor Marie-Elodie Ancel, Université Paris Est Créteil Val-de-Marne, Paris, France

Professor Rita Matulionyte, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia

Professor Mireille van Eechoud, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

3) Recognition of Foreign Judgments

Speaker: Professor Marketa Trimble, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States of America

4) Arbitration

Speaker: Professor Dário Manuel Lentz de Moura Vicente, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

17.20 – 17.45 Open Floor Discussions

Moderator: Professor Joost Blom, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

17.45 – 18.00 Closing

Professor Kono, ILA

Ms. Louise van Greunen, Director, Building Respect for IP Division, WIPO

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