Here's a new edition of Retromark ... to catch up with all the (cool) trade mark news!

After last year’s sell-out crowd, Retromark: the Conference returns for another afternoon of trade mark law and practice on Wednesday, 27 March 2019. Darren Meale of Simmons & Simmons and the IPKat, supported by a range of speakers, will again be joining forces to probe at some of the most important issues in trade marks today (although we will do our very best not to mention Brexit). We are very pleased that Mr Justice Arnold has agree to be this year’s keynote speaker.

The event will take place at Simmons & Simmons’ London office in Moorgate from 2pm, culminating in drinks and canapés. The preliminary agenda is below and will be updated with additional speaker details in due course.

You can sign up via Eventbrite here. Reserve your space while you can – last year’s event booked up pretty quickly.

Here's the programme:

14:00-14:30 – Registration

14:30-14:40 – Introduction and welcome, Adrian Smith, Simmons&Simmons partner

14:40-15:40 – Panel 1 – “It’s ok to use someone else’s name and logo to refer to them, right?" Exploring the boundaries of honest nominative use.

Moderator: Eleonora Rosati

Panellists:

• Mark Cruickshank, Managing IP Counsel, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group
• Dev Gangjee, Associate Professor at the University of Oxford
• Lindsay Lane QC, Barrister at 8 New Square
• Rebecca Pennington, Senior Counsel at Snap, Inc

15:40-16:00 – The Retromark Awards, Darren Meale, S&S partner and Deputy District Judge

16:00-16:30 – Coffee/tea break

16:30-17:15 – Keynote address: Mr Justice Arnold, the High Court of England and Wales

17:15-18:15 – Panel 2 – Drafting, enforcing and attacking trade marks following SkyKick and Fidelis: how should we write, prove use of and scope the boundaries of protection of registrations?

Moderator: Darren Meale

Panellists:

• Richard Goddard, Trade Mark Counsel, BP, and First Vice President of CITMA
• Stuart Baran, Barrister at 3 New Square
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18:15-19:30 – Drinks and canapés