January 29 – February 2 / 2024

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PROGRAM – XXII EUTM Intensive Seminar

MONDAY 29-01-2024

10.00

Welcome address
Prof. Pilar Montero
Director of the Magister Lvcentinvs. Commercial Law Professor. University of Alicante

Prof. Nuria Fernández
Director of the Trade Mark and Designs Module. Magister Lvcentinvs. Commercial Law Full Professor. University of Alicante

Dr. Vicente Gimeno
Coordinator of the Trade Mark and Designs Module. Commercial Law Assistant Professor. University of Alicante

10.30-11.30

The European Union Trade Mark & Community Designs
Nuria Fernández
Director of the Trade Mark and Designs Module. Magister Lvcentinvs. Commercial Law Full Professor. University of Alicante

Vicente Gimeno
Coordinator of the Trade Mark and Designs Module. Commercial Law Assistant Professor University of Alicante

11.30-12.00 Break

12.00-13.00

Filing strategies for trade mark registration
Laura Pedemonte
Partner. Barzanò & Zanardo
13.00-14.00 Lunch break

14:00-15:00

Absolute Grounds for Refusal
Pilar Íñiguez
Director of the Patent Module. Magister Lvcentinvs. Commercial Law Professor. University of Alicante

Pilar Montero
Director of the Magister Lvcentinvs. Commercial Law Professor. University of Alicante

15:00-16:00

Pharma Trade mark
Christian Schalk
Senior Counsel. Bayer AG

16.00-17.00

Students presentation

TUESDAY 30-01-2024

9.30-11.00

Non Traditional Trade mark (colour TM, sounds mark, multimedia mark, pattern TM)
Andreas Renck
Partner, Hogan Lovells

11.00-11.30 Break

11.30-12.30

Relative grounds for refusal (General principles)
Michael Hawkins
Partner, Noerr

12.30-13.30

Trade Mark with reputation
Jose Abad Revenga
Senior Associate, PwC

13:30-14:30 Lunch break

14.30-15.30

Trade marks Opposition process
Cristina Bercial-Chaumier
Partner, Casalonga

15.30-16.30

Round-up Practical session and case law on EUTM
Sergio Rizzo
BoA- Boards of Appeal. EUIPO

16.30-17.30

Students presentation

WEDNESDAY 31-01-2024

09.30-11.00

General Court and Court of Justice proceedings
Verena von Bomhard
Founding Partner, Bomhard IP

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-13.30

The EUTM practitioners´s perspective
Verena von Bomhard
Founding Partner, Bomhard IP

Tobias Dolde
Partner, Noerr

Benjamin Fontaine
Partner, EGYP

Iza Junkar
Senior Associate, Hogan Lovells

13:30-15:00 Lunch

15.00-15:45

Genuine use of a EU trade mark
Altea Asensi
Coordinator of the legal regime of plant breeding and distinctive quality signs Module.
Commercial Law Assistant Professor University of Alicante

15:45-17:00

Students presentation

PROGRAM – XIV RCD Intensive Seminar

THURSDAY 01-02-2024

09:30-10:30

Introduction to EU Design Reform Package
Michael Hawkins
Partner. Noerr

10:30-11:30

Registered community designs and EUTM
María Elena Juan Serna
Associate. Baylos

11.30-12.00 Coffee Break

12.00-13.30

The RCD practitioner perspective
Victoria Gigante
Principal associate. Garrigues

Isabel Pérez-Cabrero
Principal associate. Garrigues

13:30-15:00 Lunch

15.00-17.00

Students presentation

FRIDAY 02-02-2024

09.30-11.00

The EUIPO perspective of the new EU Regulation
Antje Söder
LD – Legal Department. EUIPO
11.00-11.30 Break

11.30-12.30

Informed user in community designs
Caroline Le Goffic
Director of the Master “Droit de la propriété industrielle” Professor of Private Law. University of Lille.

12:30-14:00

Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse in trade marks and designs
Pilar Montero
Director of the Magister Lvcentinvs. Commercial Law Professor. University of Alicante

Alberto Casado
Of Counsel Baylos. Former Vice-President of the EPO. Former Vice-President of the EUIPO. Former Director of the SPTO

Cristina Mesa
Partner. Garrigues

CLOSING ADDRESS
Prof. Pilar Montero García Noblejas
Director of the Magister Lvcentinvs. Alicante Master on Intellectual Property and Digital Innovation

Prof. Edith Blary
Codirector of the LAC+ International Associated Laboratory (Lille Alicante)

Prof. Caroline Le Goffic
Director of the Master 2 “Industrial Property Law,” University of Lille

DIRECTORS

Prof. Dr. Esperanza GALLEGO SÁNCHEZ

Chair of Commercial Law. Director of the Commercial Law Department.

Prof. Dr. Nuria FERNÁNDEZ PÉREZ

Chair of Commercial Law. Director of the Trade Marks, Designs, Competition and Copyright Intensive Module of the Magister Lvcentinvs.

Prof. Dr. Pilar MONTERO GARCÍA-NOBLEJAS

Director of the Magister Lvcentinvs. Commercial Law Professor.

COORDINATORS

Prof. Dr. Vicente Gimeno Beviá

Academic Coordinator of the Trade Mark and Designs university specialist title. University of Alicante.

Prof. Dr. Andrea García Martínez

Academic Coordinator of the Trade Mark and Designs university specialist title. University of Alicante

Prof. Dr. Marina Vázquez Esteban

Academic Coordinator of the Trade Mark and Designs university specialist title. University of Alicante

ORGANIZATION

Prometeo Ciprom/2021/057 Project
Magister Lvcentinvs. Master on Intellectual Property and Digital Innovation. University of Alicante
Magister Lvcentinvs amigos y alumnos

Academic Committee from the Commercial Law Department

Mr. Álvaro Asencio Gallego
Dr. Altea Asensi Meras
Mr. Miguel Cano Menor
Dr. Maurizio Crupi
Dr. Pilar Iñiguez Ortega

Mr. Jaume Llorca Galiana
Mr. Alejandro Llopis Blanque
Dr. Jorge Moya Ballester
Dr. Ignacio Rabasa Martínez

Language

EU Trademark and Design Intensive Seminars are taught fully in English.

Date

29/01/2024 – 02/02/2024

Venue

Auditorium Germán Bernacer. University of Alicante
Carretera San Vicente del Raspeig s/n 03690 San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante (Spain)

For more information on the programme an the participation (registration), please contact:

[email protected]
Tel: +34/ 965 90 93 92