On 12 November 2020, ESR Krishnamani Jayaraman rendered a lecture in the CEIPI / WIPO / INPI Advanced Training Course on Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer and Licensing, conducted between 9-18 November 2020. Krishnamani spoke about his PhD project Bridging the “Valley of Death” in Biomedical Sciences (Theme 6). >> read the brochure
Anastasiia Kyrylenko, ESR 10, has won the 2020 AIPPI Essay Prize in the student category. The subject of this year’s competition was COVID-19 and its impact on the world of IP. Anastasiia’s essay, “COVID-19 and Geographical Indications: Is the Promise of ‘Quality’ in ‘Quality Schemes’ Undermined?”, analyses whether lockdown measures and the resulting changes in the [...]
The Centre for IP Studies (“CIPS”) at National Law University Jodhpur (India) organised a ‘Two-Day Workshop on Patent Facilitation’ on 26 and 27 September 2020. The purpose of the workshop was primarily to introduce the basics of Indian patent law, including substantive requirements, procedure, filing etc to the participants. Naina was invited as a keynote speaker [...]
Our ESR 8, Naina was invited to lecture at the 2020 Kraków IP Law Summer School held from 14 to 18 September 2020. This year’s theme for the summer school was ‘Quality of IPRs’ where Naina presented on the topic ‘Whether there could be a one-size-fits-all definition of Patent Quality?’. Naina also received a full grant [...]
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On 10 September 2020, ESRs Niccolò Galli, Maurizio Crupi, and Tamar Khuchua, respectively reached the first, second and third places of the EPIP 2020 Young Scholar Award – Law section. EPIP, which stands for European Policy for Intellectual Property, is an international, independent, interdisciplinary, non-profit association of researchers that grew out of a network financed by the [...]
Lucius Klobučník, “Ex post liability relief as a misguided approach to encouraging new online music services in Europe”, European Intellectual Property Review (EIPR), 42 (7), August 2020.
Tamar Khuchua published the article 'Facing the 'Bad Faith' - The Challenges and Tools to Combat Blocking Strategies of the Firms in the EU Trade Mark Law' in the Nordic Journal of European Law (NJEL). >> Read more
The European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA) is a non-governmental professional association actively involved in promoting changes in the fields of Intellectual Property in Europe. Within this framework, the ECTA Award encourages academic research for the development of European trade mark, design, copyright, and geographical indication laws. The working paper titled ‘Innovating within Tradition: Are PDOs [...]
Our ESR Vicente Zafrilla Díaz-Marta presented his paper “Hybridization of Open Standardization Models: Typologies and Competition Law Concerns”, co-authored with Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis, at the ASCOLA conference, which took place (online) from the 25th to the 27th of June 2020. ASCOLA is one of the most reputed fora for competition law scholars and its conference is [...]
