Forthcoming ERA IP events with 25% IPKat discount

Back to school, back to the IP events world!

Back from the holidays and looking for some IP events to enrich your Autumn? Our friends at the Academy of European Law (ERA) would like to inform IPKat readers of 3 events that they are organising and are taking place over the next few months. They are:

(1) Artificial Intelligence: Challenges for Intellectual Property Law on 17 and 18 October 2019 in Brussels 

This event, which will be also live streamed here, will tackle the implications for IP and innovation of rapid and unregulated development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The conference will discuss the need for regulation of AI and the application in practice of legal principles in line with the Digital Single Market Strategy and the European intellectual property framework. 

Key topics include:

• AI at the intersection between ethics, human rights and innovation
• Overview of European Commission activities in the field of AI and big data
• The protection of software/computer-implemented inventions used in AI technologies
• Patent filing for an AI-related invention in Europe
• Protecting AI via copyright law 
• The relevance of trade secrets for AI protection
• AI ownership, AI authorship and infringement of intellectual property rights
• AI systems as data analysis tools for the enforcement of intellectual property rights
• AI, innovation, data concentration and collusion

IPKat readers enjoy a 25% discount by using the VIP code ERA2019IPKAT. For further information and to register, click here.

(2) Annual Conference on European Patent Law 2019 on 7 and 8 November 2019 in Brussels

This annual conference will update patent litigators and attorneys on the ongoing European and EU initiatives in the field of patent law. The focus will be on emerging technologies used as medical therapies or treatment methods on the human being, including genome engineering, biomedical applications of human stem cells and nucleic acid-related inventions.

Key topics include:

• The EU Biotech Directive 98/44: still fit for purpose?
• Patenting of diagnostic methods in Europe and the USA
• Patenting of human embryonic stem cells
• Patenting gene and gene-editing tool
• EPO current practice on patenting life
• The EU/EPC saga on the definition of “essentially biological processes”
• Legal tools to facilitate access to patented biotechnologies
• Life science between patent law and Artificial Intelligence

IPKat readers enjoy a 25% discount by using the VIP code ERA2019IPKAT. For further information and to register, click here.

(3) Annual Conference on European Copyright Law 2019 on 21 and 22 November in Trier

This year’s annual conference will update intellectual property lawyers on the ongoing EU initiatives in the field of copyright law.

Key topics include:

• Adoption of the EU copyright package
• New publishers’ rights under implementation
• Legal and technological challenges of online content-sharing service providers
• Key recent CJEU rulings on copyright
• Copyright in the cloud
• Artificial Intelligence and copyright

IPKat readers enjoy a 25% discount by using the VIP code ERA2019IPKAT. For further information and to register, click here.