INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY LAW

Provisional calendar

The calendar is merely guidance for students and can be altered. All modifications will be made available on the website of FDUNL.

Classes: Tuesday (10h30-13h15) & Thursday(13h30-14h45)

Date / Summary / Observations/Materials
20/9 – Class 1,2 /
  • Presentation
  • Pan-European Seal Programme (OHIM, EPO)
  • Method and evaluation
  • Sources of Industrial Property Law
  • Object of Industrial Property Law
  • Legal nature
/ Pan-European Seal Programme

22/9 – Class 3 /
  • Attribution of industrial property rights
  • Provisional protection
/ EUIPO ACADEMY
Introduction to Intellectual Property (Part I & II)
Prof. A. Kamperman Sanders
27/929/9 – Classes4, 5, 6 /
  • Contracts in general: transfer and license
  • Exhaustion of industrial property rights
  • Industrial property rights and competition law
/ Analysis of a licensing contract (previously made available to students)
Discussion of EU case law:
Preparation/presentation of the following cases by students:
  • TJCE, C-15/74, Centralfarm/Sterling Drug, 31/10/1974
  • TJCE, C-10/89, Hag II, 17/10/1990
  • C-355/96, Silhouette, de 16/7/1998
  • C-173/98, Sebago, de 1/7/1999

4/1011/10–Classes7, 8, 9, 10 / Patents:
  • Concept of invention
  • Objet of a patent right
  • Criteria of patentability: novelty, originality, industrial application
  • Ownership: invention in the context of labour contracts
  • Application of article 59 rules to inventions and also designs & models
  • Inventions by employees – foreign law perspective – presentation by Philipp Dubiel and Charlotte Lehmann
/ Analysis of a case about university patents: case 1 – Website
13/10 – Class 11 /
  • Software patentability (discussion)
/ Discussion based on the legal opinion of:
Luís Couto Gonçalves, A patente de invenção e a noção de técnica,
Estudos comemorativos dos 10 anos da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Nova de Lisboa / coordenação Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Carlos Ferreira de Almeida, Marta Tavares de Almeida, Coimbra, Almedina, 2008, pp. 289-322
18/10 – Class 12, 13
(INPI – Dra. Susana Armário) /
  • Practical guidelines concerning applications for patents: inventions of product/process, scope of protection and application of the doctrine of equivalents
  • National protection – procedure
/ EUIPOACADEMY
Basic principles and requirements of unity of invention
EPO
How to get a European patent?
EPO
20/10 – Class 14 /
  • Invalidity and extinction of patents
  • Compulsory licenses – presentation by OlíviaBonan Costa & Maria Eduarda
  • Provisional application for a patent

25/10 & 27/10– Class 15, 16, 17 / Patent law and pharmaceutical law
  • Supplementary protection certificates for medicinal and pharmaceutical products – presentation by Isabel Martinez Fernández
  • MA and patent law
  • Arbitration of patent disputes– presentation by Susana Couto Gonçalves
  • Utility models

3/11– Class18 / Designations of origin and geographical indications– presentation by Camilla Bignotti
8/11–Class 19, 20 / "Analysis of Case Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., et al, 11-1846, case record, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California" – presentation by André Rodrigues
Designs and models
  • Basic concepts
  • Criteria of protection
  • Attribution of the right, content and limits
  • Priority, registration
/ EUIPO ACADEMY
Introduction to Community Designs
Henning Hartwig
10/11 – Class 21 /
  • EU designs and models; international registration–presentation by LyubomiraTsvetanova

15/11 – Class 22, 23
(INPI – Dra. Susana Armário) /
  • International protection: European Patent Convention (EPC), Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
  • PPH - Patent Prosecution Highway
  • European Union Patent

17/11 & 22/11 – Class 24, 25, 26 / European Union Patent–presentation by Juliana Almeida & Guilherme Costa
Trademarks
  • Function & object
  • Absolute prohibitions
  • Relative prohibitions
Cases Libertel & Philips - Presentationby Carla Antunes & Amélia Oliveira Martins
Protection of logotypes – presentation by HandeAltınışık & Serra Kış / EU case law analysis
Ac. C-104-01 - Libertel
Ac. C-299-99 - Philips v. Remington
Ac. T-128/01 -Daimler Chrysler
Ac. C-273/00 –Sieckmann
& others
24/11 & 29/11 – Class 27, 28, 29 / Trademarks(cont.)
  • Registration procedure: national, EU trademark, international protection
  • Notorious and prestigious trademarks
The intervention of courts in the evaluation of Trademarks. Enforcement of IP Rights.
The protection of fashion by IP Law – presentation by Erik Mateasik & Petra Kovácechová / EUIPO ACADEMY
Introduction to CTMs
(I)Unitary Character and Absolute Grounds
Florence Verhoestraete
(II)Relative Grounds
Eric De Gryse
EUIPO ACADEMY
Enforcement of IP rights (overview)
Olivier Vrins
6/12 – Class 30, 31 / ‘’The Great Bottle Battle - Coke v. Pepsi’'– presentation by Beatriz MartínezIruelaMarina Garcia-Rodeja
The WIPO arbitration system in IP Law – presentation by Sofia Dias
13/12 – Class 32, 33 / Cases on Trademark Law / Cases:
  • Louboutin v. YSL - – presentation by Miguel Viana
  • Google v. Vuitton – presentation by ViktoriyaVeleva
  • L’Oréal SA and Others v eBay – presentation byAlžbětaGricová

15/12 – Class 34 / Unfair competition
  • Basic concepts
  • Legal nature
  • Main categories of infractions
Presentation on ECJ cases C487/07 (L'Oreal) and C252/07 (Intel) – Mischa Schäfer
Indications about exam
Delivery of essays
UNTIL 18/12 / 25 000 characters maximum (approximately 10 pages)
Font: Times new roman /Garamond, Font: 12, Line spacing: 1,5 / It is mandatory to send essays in Pdf format to the following e-mail:

EXAM / Optional (can be replaced by presentation of written essay + presentation + certificates in EUIPO Courses) but guaranteed to all students

Possible presentations/essays (suggestions):

  • Exhaustion of IPR and Competition Law (case law);
  • Compulsory licenses in Patent Law (look at practical applications);
  • Supplementary protection certificates for medicinal and pharmaceutical products – purpose, object, main rules;
  • Arbitration of industrial property conflicts in the pharmaceuticals sector;
  • The role of institutionalized arbitration in Industrial Property Law – advantages, insufficiencies, regime;
  • Utility models and the registration of minor inventions – identification of regimes in various countries;
  • Protection of logotypes;
  • The protection of fashion within Industrial Property Law;
  • Designations of origin and geographical indications;
  • The calculation of damages for violations of IPR;
  • Analysis of Case Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., et al, 11-1846, case record, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California

All information and decision available here:

  • Analysis of Case Christian Louboutin SA et al v. USL America, Inc et al, 1:11cv2381 (NYSD August 10, 2011)
  • Analysis of joined Cases C-236/08 to C-238/08, Google France and Google Inc. et al. v. Louis Vuitton Malletier et al., (Mar. 23, 2010);
  • Analysis of Case C-324/09, L’Oréal SA and Others v eBay International AG and Others, (July 11, 2011).

For other topics, please engage in a discussion with your Professor and make your own proposal

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