Intellectual Property Law Programme 2012

The IP Law School, 21 - 25 May 2012

The IP Law School is a unique initiative in Asia offering a taught programme in international Intellectual Property Law and its relevance for global, European and Asian economic development and innovation policy.

The IP Law School is extremely suited for trainee lawyers, Intellectual Property professionals with an economic or policy background, and master students in Intellectual Property wishing to enhance their skills at post-academic level.

Starting from the basics of the Paris and Berne conventions, the course covers the development of Intellectual Property Law all the way to the WTO TRIPS Agreement and the WIPO Copyright treaties. Attention is also devoted to regional arrangements, such as the European Patent Convention, and other new international and national initiatives. From a policy perspective free trade agreements and bilateral investment arrangements covering Intellectual Property, as well as ongoing negotiations in the area of protection of traditional knowledge will be covered.

Classes are offered in an intensive Socratic format in the course of one week by experts in the field.

This challenging programme also expects students to jointly prepare and argue several moot cases in a friendly, yet competitive atmosphere, providing a unique insight in the way in which participants from various jurisdictions approach international and domestic legal problems.

The IP Law School offers an excellent opportunity to prepare or refresh one’s knowledge before the IP Seminar. 

The Annual Professional IP Update, 26 May 2011

The annual professional update provides an overview of relevant cases and legislative developments of the past year from all over the world. During one day you will be brought up to speed on the major important legal decisions and developments in intellectual property law and policy. 

The Annual Intellectual Property Seminar - will be held again in 2013Venue: Graduate Law Center of the Chinese University of Hong Kong 2/F Bank of America Tower, Admiralty, Hong Kong SAR, China
Venue: Macau Cultural Centre

Since 2000 the IEEM has been organizing every year a successful two-days seminar on Intellectual Property Law topics. In 2011 the 12^th Annual IP Seminar's topic will be Consumers, Facilitators, and Intermediaries - IP Infringers or Innocent Bystanders? A group of distinguished speakers will be invited to talk about issues such as ISP liability, unwarranted threats to primary and secondary infringers, contributory and secondary liability for patent and copyright infringement, Google ads and trademark infringement, liability for transporters and freighters, time and geo-shifting devices and services, eBay and trademark infringement, and the impact of sporting events legislation on the public sphere.

Speakers include: Irene Calboli (Marquette University), Christopher Heath (EPO), Byung-Il Kim (Hanyang University), David Llewelyn (Professor at King's College London, Visiting Professor at Singapore Management University), Jan Nordemann (Boehmert & Boehmert, and Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany),  Anselm Kamperman Sanders (Maastricht University), Sylvie Nérisson (Max Planck Institute) and Tasuhiro Ueno (University of Tokyo)

Past seminars have attracted to Macau some of the best experts in the field and the papers presented there have been published in book form Kluwer and Hart.