The Research Department of the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) of the University of Strasbourg is pleased to invite you to participate to the final conference of the EIPIN Innovation Society (EIPIN IS) concluding the European Joint Doctorate (EJD) project entitled “Vision(s) for Intellectual Property in Europe: The Role of Research”, to take place online on Zoom platform, on 31 May and 1 June 2021.
The goal of this conference under the scientific direction of Christophe Geiger, Professor at the University of Strasbourg and Oleksandr Bulayenko, Education and Scientific Coordinator / Postdoctoral Researcher at CEIPI is to reflect on the role of IP research and its different methodologies to shape IP policy in Europe and globally, as well as to expose the scientific results of the various PhD projects conducted in the framework of the EIPIN IS project. Each parts of the conference will be open by a keynote delivered by a renowned scholar: Stefan Bechtold, ETH Zürich; Irene Calboli, Texas A&M University School of Law; Barton Beebe and Jeanne Fromer, NYU; and Maurizio Borghi, University of Bournemouth, the first day being closed by a keynote speech delivered by Peter Yu, Texas A&M University School of Law.
This conference, takes place within the framework of the European research project EIPIN Innovation Society (EIPIN IS), where CEIPI is one of the five university partners. This project was funded by the European Commission under the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions, European Joint Doctorates (EJD) and aimed to examine the role of intellectual property in innovation in Europe.
As a reminder, the academic partners of the project are the:
- University of Strasbourg
- Queen Mary University of London
- University of Alicante
- Maastricht University (coordinator of the project)
- University of Augsburg.
The EIPIN IS academic partners wish to express their gratitude to the many non-academic partners of the project who have contributed to its success, in particular: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), European association of Knowledge Transfer professionals (ASTP-Proton), Chemelot Institute for Science & Technology (Chemelot InSciTe), International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO), Ericsson, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (EPI), European Seeds Agency (ESA), European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), the collective management organization GEMA, Hovione, Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD, center deactivated in 2019), Kennisland and Organization for an International Geographical Indications Network (origin).
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Registration for the conference is free, but mandatory:
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For further information regarding the EIPIN IS project, please visit: http://www.eipin-innovationsociety.org/
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
EIPIN Innovation Society was funded by the European Commission within the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions, International Training Networks (ITN), European Joint Doctorates (EJD). The funding period was March 1, 2017 until February 28, 2021, Grant Agreement number 721733-EIPIN IS-MSCA-ITN-EJD, European IP Institutes Network-Innovation Society — H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016.
