Tuesday Tiddleywinks

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But back to business, here are some more events, courses and intitiatives to fill up your autumn and winter calendar.

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Events

The IBIL Innovation seminar 2018“Pregabalin: Where stand plausibility, Swiss-form claims, late amendment and more?”, taking place on 14 November 2018, will investigate and analyse the content and impact of the Supreme Court’s highly anticipated decision in Warner-Lambert v Mylan.  For more information on the event and for booking, see here and here, respectively.

On 22 November 2018, IPAN (Intellectual Property Awareness Network) will host the meeting "Designing Britain’s Future: How design protection in commerce and industry will progress post Brexit", to be held at the CIPA offices in Holborn. If you are not an IPAN member, you can inquire for availability for this event at event@ipaware.org. For more information on the event, see here.

Some events in Asia... 

On 26-28 October 2018  the Conference of the Asian Pacific Copyright Association, will take place at Renmin University of China. For more information on this event, see here.

Also, the First IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia Conference will take place on 31 January-1 February in the International Islamic University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. For more information on this event, see here.

...and in the US! 

The Texas A&M University School of Law will host on October 5-6, 2018 the Fourth Annual Texas A&M Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, which is organized by Professor Peter Yu. The Roundtable provides an important forum for scholars to present their works-in-progress, receive important feedback, and interact with many colleagues.  For more information on the Roundtable, see here.

Courses

The Law School of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf organizes a course on European Patent Litigation, taught in English, composed of eight modules of two days each, including a module with final seminar of three days. The course is targeted at Patent Attorneys and IP Lawyers. The contents of the course covers the curriculum of Rule 3 of the Draft EPLC Rules. The lectures will be given by experts from academia as well as judges and lawyers from different Member States. For more information on the course, see here. 

The Center on Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI: Centre d’Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle, Université de Strasbourg) organizes a Course on Patent Litigation composed of seven modules of two days each, followed by a final seminar of three days. It takes place from October to June. The program covers all basic European laws and conventions relevant in the field of patent litigation. The Diploma pays particular attention to the unitary patent and the Unified Patent Court, and devotes two out of the eight theoretical modules to the UPC and the unitary patent. For more information on the course, see here

Initiatives

On 12 September 2018, the European Parliament will decide on an adaptation of copyright to the Internet age. The initiative Save Our Sound stands for the rights of content creators and the fact that they get a fair reward for using their works on the platforms. In light of the imminent vote, the initiative argues that it is time for Europe's parliament to set clear boundaries for global Internet giants and to protect European creative workers and that it is time for a strong European signal to leave the rules of the game on the web not to a few large corporations. If you want to support this initiative, you can sign the #MakeInternetFair Petition. 

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