The CEIPI and the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) are organizing a round table on October 1st 2014, on the topic “The Community plant variety system: Challenges and Opportunities”.
The round table is composed by: Mr. Christophe Geiger, Director General of CEIPI, Mr. Martin Ekvad, President of CPVO, Mr. Francesco Mattina, Head of the Legal Unit at CPVO, Mr. Paul van der Kooij, Senior Lecturer at the University of Leiden, Chairman of the Board of Appeal of the CPVO, Mr. Théo Hassler, Professor at CEIPI, Ms. Geertrui van Overwalle, Professor of IP Law at the K.U.Leuven, Belgium.
On this occasion, the CEIPI and the CPVO will sign a framework agreement in order to raise public awareness and knowledge about community plant variety rights, area of intellectual property sometimes neglected in the academic classical programs.
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