IGIR - IEEM Macao IPKM Programme 2016
Since the year 2000, the Institute of European Studies of Macao (IEEM) and Prof. Kamperman Sanders of IGIR organise an annual event on Intellectual Property Law and Knowledge Management.
The programme comprises three activities:
The Intellectual Property Law School
Monday 21 to Friday 25 November 2016, Macau Cultural Center
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 participants to jointly prepare and argue several moot cases in a friendly, yet competitive atmosphere, providing a unique insight in the way in which colleagues from various jurisdictions approach international and domestic legal problems.
Fees, Admissions and Registration
The Intellectual Property Seminar
Monday 28 November and Tuesday 29 November 2016, Grand Lapa Hotel, Macau
IP as Property - Of Pharmaceuticals, Tobacco, Commodities and Other Matters
The two-days Annual Intellectual Property Seminar offers a forum for IP professionals wishing to be part of a thought-provoking discussion on cutting-edge developments in intellectual property law and policy. Distinguished practitioners, judges and academics from all over the world have contributed to this event. The papers they have presented have been published in book form by Kluwer Law International and Hart Publishing.
The 2016 event will cover the way in which intellectual titles function as property. Not content with approaching intellectual property as a title conferring a 'negative right' to exclude others, right holders have increasingly argued that the right to property entitles them to a 'positive' right that protects their investment against expropriation or other measures that negatively affect their 'legitimate expectations'. The seminar thus looks at the way in which regulatory and policy freedom of a state is curtailed by intellectual property rights, but also how intellectual property can be valued, act as collateral for the purpose of investment and IP exchanges.
Programme overview for the IP Seminar
The Professional IP Update 2016
Wednesday 30 November 2016, Hong Kong IPD, Hong Kong
The annual professional update provides an overview of all 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.
For this edition, the IP discussion will also include IP Valuation and Exchanges.
Programme overview for the IP Update