Welcome Address:
José Luís de Sales Marques - IEEM President
Gonçalo Cabral - Macau SAR Government

Keynote on IP and Pharmaceuticals
James Love – Consumer Project on Technology, Washington/ Geneva /London

Pharmaceutical Industry in Asia and the efforts of Médecins sans Frontières
Victor van Spengler – IP Consultant

Pharmaceuticals, Generics and Antitrust
Anselm Kamperman Sanders - Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Product Patents and Second Medical Use Claims in the Biotech Age
Cláudia Chamas – Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil

 

Additional Protection Certificates
Christopher Heath - European Patent Office, Munich

Patents, SPCs, Data Exclusivity - Survival of Generic Manufacturers in a Litigious Pharma World
Heinz Goddar – Bremen University / Munich IP Law Centre/ Boehmert & Boehmert

Patents and the Seed Industry
Mónica Witthaus – Buenos Aires University / Austral University, Argentina

 

 

Opening Address
Christopher Heath and Anselm Kamperman Sanders

Originals, Generics and Trademark use
Makoto Hattori – Abe, Ikubo & Katayama, Japan

Q&A

Public Health and Developing Countries - Are patents the problem or the solution?
A Property Perspective: F. Scott Kieff – Washington University, St. Louis
A Development Perspective: Jakkrit Kuanpoth - University of Wollongong, Australia

 

Mock Trial:
Judge: Dieter Braendle – Commercial Court, Zurich, Switzerland
Plaintiff’s counsel: Pravin Anand - Anand & Anand, New Delhi; Cláudia Chamas – Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
Defendant’s counsel: Henry Wheare - Lovells, Hong Kong; Mónica Witthaus – Buenos Aires University / Austral University, Argentina

Registration and Coffee

Welcome Address:
José Luís de Sales Marques - IEEM President
Gonçalo Cabral - Seminar Convenor

Right Holders’ Control over Repair and Recycle:
David Llewelyn - IP Academy, Singapore, and King’s College, London

Consumer Welfare and the Right to Repair and Recycle:
Anselm Kamperman Sanders - Maastricht University

Q&A

Coffee Break

Repair and Recycle in Light of Exhaustion of Patent Rights:
Mineko Mohri - Attorney-at-law, Tokyo; LL.M., Stanford University

Repair and Recycle as Indirect Patent Infringement:
Christopher Heath - European Patent Office, Munich

Q&A

Lunch

 

Blocking Repair and Recycle Through End User Licence Agreements and Encryption:
Estelle Derclaye - Queen Mary Research Institute, London

Blocking Repair and Recycle by Computer Programmes:
Andy Sun - Asia Pacific Legal Institute, Washington

Q&A

Coffee Break

Interoperability and Transformation: Hacking Consumer Products and Platforms:
Kamiel Koelman - Computer/Law Institute, The Vrije University, Amsterdam

Q&A

Dinner

 

 

Opening Address

Trade Marks and Reconditioned Goods in Greater China and at Common Law:
Michael Pendleton - Chinese University of Hong Kong

Competition in Spares: Comparative Design Law:
Alison Firth – Newcastle Law School

Q&A

Coffee Break

Exclusive Distribution Networks and the Unauthorised Dealer:
Valérie-Laure Benabou - University of Versailles-Saint Quentin

Refusals to Deal in IP: the After-Sales Market and Consumer Welfare:
Valentine Korah - University College, London

Q&A

Lunch

 

Mock Trial: Case on 3D Trade Marks and End User License Agreements

• Judge: Gillian Davies - Hogarth Chambers, London
• Counsel for the plaintiff and defendant: Anselm Kamperman Sanders, Christopher Heath, Gabriela Kennedy and Gonçalo Cabral

Judgment & Closure

Dinner

09:00

Registration

09:30

Welcome Address:
José Luís de Sales Marques - IEEM President
Gonçalo Cabral - Seminar Convenor

09:40

TRIPS and Free Trade Agreements: General Remarks
Roger Kampf - WTO Intellectual Property Division

10:10

Free Trade Agreements versus WTO and TRIPS: an Asian Perspective
Jakkrit Kuanpoth - Faculty of Law University of Wollongong

10:40

Q&A

11:00

Coffee Break

 

Moderator: Gabriela Kennedy, Lovells. Hong Kong

11:30

Most Favoured Nation Treatment and IP
Christopher Heath - Max Planck Institute, Munich

12:00

TRIPS and Regional Integration
Anthony Taubman - Traditional Knowledge Division, WIPO

12:30

Q&A

13:00

Lunch

 

Moderator: Stephen Selby, Hong Kong IPD

14:30

Free Trade and IP Rights: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Daniel Gervais- Ottawa University

15:00

Exporting the DMCA through Free Trade Agreements
Andrew Christie - Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, University of Melbourne

15:30

Q&A

16:00

Coffee Break

16:30

Geographical Indications and Free Trade Agreements
Anselm Kamperman Sanders - University of Maastricht

17:00

Q&A

20:00

Dinner

 

 

 

Moderator: Carlos Simões -CC Lawyers, Macau

09:30

Copyright and Free Trade
Byung-il Kim - Inha University

10:00

Parallel Imports of Pharmaceuticals: Doha versus Free Trade Agreements
Ng Loy Wee Loon - Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore

10:30

Q&A

10:50

Coffee Break

 

Moderator: TBA

11:20

Plant Varieties, UPOV and Free Trade Agreements obligations
Maristela Basso - University of São Paulo

11:50

International Antitrust and IP
Andreas Heinemann - Centre for Comparative and European Law, University of Lausanne

12:20

Q&A

13:00

Lunch

 

14:30

• Judge: His Honour Judge Michael Fysh QC, SC Patents County Court, London
• Plaintiff team: Christopher Heath, Jared Margolis
• Defendant team: Anselm Kamperman Sanders, Gonçalo Cabral
• Amicus Curiae: Peter Cheung - Hong Kong IPD

17:00

Q&A & Closure

20:00

Dinner

14:00

Registration

14:15

Welcome Address

14:30

• Judge: Madeleine de Cock Buning
• Lawyer for the plaintiff: Manuel Lopes Rocha
• Lawyer for the defendant: André Bertrand
• Jury: Students of the IEEM Intellectual Property Law School, class of 2004

17:00

Closure

20:00

09:30

Opening Address

09:40

Services and the WTO - Online Gambling
Peter van den Bossche - Maastricht University

10:10

Protecting Intellectual Property in the Gaming Industry
Hugh Hansen - Fordham University (New York)

10:40

Q&A

11:00

Coffee Break

11:20

Software Patent Protection in the Games Industry
Anselm Kamperman Sanders - Maastricht University

11:50

Competition Law and Open Source Software
Christopher Heath - Max Planck Institute (Munich)

12:20

Q&A

13:00

14:30

Commercialisation of Digitized Culture - Of IPR and Art and Multimedia
Robert Burrell - Australian National University (Canberra)

15:00

The Protection of Analog and Digitized Games and Gaming
Madeleine de Cock Buning - Utrecht University, De Brauw Blackstone
Westbroek (Amsterdam)

15:30

Q&A

15:50

Coffee Break

16:10

The International Protection of Television and Entertainment Formats
André Bertrand - University of Paris I, André R. Bertrand et Associés (Paris)

16:40

The Protection of Digital Persona and Virtual and Real Gains
Manuel Lopes Rocha - Barrocas & Alves Pereira (Lisbon)

17:10

Q&A

17:30

Closure

20:00

09:30

Welcome Address

09:40

Genetic Use Restriction Technologies: Implications for Intellectual Property
Brad Sherman - Griffith University, Brisbane

10:10

The disclosure of the origin of components of biotechnological inventions - patent law between CBD and TRIPS
Jens Schovsbo - Legal Sciences Institute, Denmark

10:40

Q&A

11:05

Coffee break

11:30

Protecting Traditional Chinese Medicine
Bryan Bachner - City University of Hong Kong

12:00

Lessons from the Human Genome Project: New Ideas for
Supporting Heathcare R&D
Tim Hubbard - The Sanger Institute, United Kingdom

12:30

Q&A

13:00

14:30

Copyright Management of Folklore in Asia
Christoph Antons - University of Wollongong, New South Wales

15:00

Marketing Creativity and Traditional Songs: the Case of Senegal
Sibylle Schlatter - Max Planck Institute, Munich

15:30

Comments by Boris Marcq
Macau Intellectual Property Association

15:45

Q&A

16:10

Coffee break

16:30

Excluding Traditional Words from Trademark Registration: the Case of New Zealand
Earl Gray - Simpson Grierson, Auckland

17:00

Q&A

17:15

Closure

20:00

09:30

International Agreements on Geographical Indications: Paris, Madrid, Lisbon and TRIPS
Christopher Heath - Max Planck Institute, Munich

10:10

Future Solutions for Protecting Geographical Indications World-wide
Anselm Kamperman Sanders - Maastricht University

10:50

Q&A

11:20

Coffee break

11:45

Clashes Between Trade Marks and Geographical Indications : the Budweiser Case
António Corte-Real - Simões, Garcia, Corte-Real & Associados, Lisbon

12:35

Q&A

13.00

Lunch (Cultural Centre)

14:30

Mock Trial of an Intellectual Property Case

• Judge: E.J. Numann - Dutch Supreme Court, The Hague
• Claimant's lawyer: Jared Margolis - Margolis and Associates, Hong Kong
• Defendant's lawyer: Carlos Jorge Simoes - C & C Lawyers, Macau

17:15

Closure

17:30

Cocktail

20:00

Dinner

 

09:30

Welcome Address

09:40

TRIPS and Enforcement
Dieter Stauder, Industrial Property International Studies Centre, Strasburg

10:20

Accession of PRC to the WTO and Civil Enforcement
Lu Guoqiang, Shanghai Second Intermediate People's Court

11:00

Q and A

11:20

Coffee Break

11:40

Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Preliminary Measures (the Portuguese Experience)
Ohen Mendes, Yolanda Busse, Oehen Mendes & Partners, Porto

12:20

Civil Enforcement: Preliminary Measures in Common Law
Henry. Wheare, Lovells, Hong Kong

12:50

13:00

Lunch

14:30

Criminal Enforcement: Interaction Between Public Authorities and Private Interests
Gregor Urbas, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra

15:00

IPR Enforcement: China Custom's Challenge
Li Qunying, IPR Division, Department of Laws and Regulations, PRC General Administration of Customs

15:30

Comments: Vincent Poon, Hong Kong Customs and Excise

15:45

Comments: José Pou Macau Customs

16:00

Q and A

16:10

Coffee Break

16:25

Enforcement strategies
Gabriela Kennedy, Lovells, HK

16:55

Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights by a Specialised Court in Thailand: an Analysis
Vichai Arianuntaka, Central Intellectual Property and International Trade Court, Bangkok

17:25

Q and A

20:00

09:30

Software and Multimedia: Patents plus Copyrights
Giovanni Casucci, Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners - Linklaters & Alliance, Milan

10:10

Commentator: Gonçalo. Cabral, Office the Macau SAR Secretary for Economy and Finance

10:25

Three-Dimensional Marks: Trademarks, Designs plus Copyrights
C. Heath, Max Planck Institute, Munich

11:05

Q and A

11:15

Coffee Break

11:30

Extension of Patents without Inventive Activity
Luís Gomes, Hovione, Macau

12:10

New Frontiers of Copyright Law: Protection and Circumvention of Anti-Copying Devices
Thomas Heide, University of Cambridge

12:50

Q and A

13:00

14:30

Closing Session: Essential Facilities and Appropriate Remuneration of Achievements as Defences to Infringement
A. K. Sanders, Maastricht University

15:30

Q and A

15:45

Closure

20:00

 

 

09:00

Registration

09:30

Welcome Address (Maria do Céu Esteves, President of the IEEM)

09:40

Introduction to Biodiversity and Plant Varieties
Christopher Heath, Max Planck Institute

10:20

Commentator: Dr. John Mo, Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong Law School

10:40

Q & A

11:00

Coffee Break

11:30

Plant Variety legislation: What Means for Asia and Other South Countries
Jade Donavanik, Legal consultant to the Thailand National Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology and the Thailand Biodiversity Centre

12:10

Commentator on TRIPs compliance: Gonçalo Cabral, Legal Adviser to the Macau SAR Government

12:40

Q & A

13:00

14:30

Perspectives on Patenting Biological Material
Margaret Llewelyn, Sheffield Institute for Biotechnology Law and Ethics, University of Sheffield

15:10

Patents in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Prices, Costs, Super-normal Profits and Ethical Issues
Luís Gomes, General Manager, Hovione PharmaScience Limited

15:40

Q & A

16:00

Coffee Break

16:30

Antitrust, Compulsory Licensing and Research Exceptions
A. Kamperman Sanders, Maastricht University

17:10

Commentator: Henry JH Wheare, Partner Lovells, Hong Kong

17:30

Q & A / Closure

09:30

10:10

The Economic Efficacy of Utility Model Protection: A Comparative Review of EU, US and Asian Policy and Practice
Uma Suthersanen, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute

10:50

Coffee Break

11:15

Utility Model Laws - the Asian Comparison and Experience
Weerawit Weeraworawit, Department of Intellectual Property, Ministry of Commerce, Thailand

11:55

Commentator:Tang Guangliang, Intellectual Property Centre, China Academy of Social Sciences

12:15

Q & A

13:00

Lunch

14:30

An Economic Prespective on Parallel Importing with Special Reference to the Experience of New Zealand and Australia
Kerrin Vautier, Research economist

15:10

Parallel Imports: Exclusivity vs. Exhaustion
Augusto Teixeira de Garcia, Macau University Law School

15:50

Coffee Break

16:10

Q & A

16:30

Closure

9:30

Welcome Address

9:45-10:30

Visions of the Information Society:Caught Between the Devil and Deep Blue's See?
Robert Burrel, King's College, London

10:30-11:00

Q & A

11:00

Coffee break

11:30-12:15

Technodigital Property for Cyberspace: Copyright Issues of Electronic Commerce in the Information Society
Alexandre Dias Pereira, Coimbra Law School

12:15-13:00

Q & A

13:00

Lunch

14:30-15:15

Database Protection in the Digital Era
Anselm Kamperman Sanders, Maastricht University

15:15-16:00

IP and the North-South Conflicts
Vandana Silva, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resources Policy, New Dehli

16:00-16:30

Q & A

9:30-10:15

Digital Property and the Digital Commons
Brad Sherman, Griffith University, Brisbane

10:15-10:45

Q & A

10:45

Coffee break

11:15-12:00

E-commerce in China and the Intellectual Property Environment
Xue Hong, Foreign Affairs College, Beijing

12:00-12:45

Q & A

13:00

Lunch

14:30-15:15

Trade Marks, E-commerce and the Internet in Asia
Christopher Heath, Max Planck Institute, Munich

15:15-16:00

E-commerce in Hong Kong - the legal issues
Gabriela Kennedy, Lovells, Hong Kong

16:00

Coffee break

16:30-17:15

Cross-border litigation and eletronic commerce in Asia/ASEAN
Colin ong, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London

17:15-18:00

Q & A