The Center for International Intellectual Property Studies is pleased to announce that Mr. Xavier Seuba, former Academic Coordinator and Scientific Responsible at CEIPI, has been appointed Director of the European Patent Academy and EQE at the European Patent Office (EPO). Mr. Seuba took up his…
The Supervisory Board of the European Qualifying Examination has published its decision of April 20, 2020 to definitely cancel the EQE 2020 (pre-examination and main examination for papers A, B, C and D). The next EQE will be held in 2021. Candidates who had enrolled for 2020 main examination…
We are happy to communicate the third edition of the book "Overview of the Appeal Proceedings according to the EPC" edited by Hugo Meinders, Philipp Lanz and Gérard Weiss. About one in a hundred European patent cases ends up before a Board of Appeal. The appeal reviews a decision of a first…
Due to the public health situation in France and following the instructions given by the University of Strasbourg, the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies is closed to the public, as from Monday March 16, until further notice. In order to ensure the pedagogical continuity for all…
The Center for International Intellectual Property Studies, a key player in intellectual property training and research at the national, European and international levels, is moving to a new building in the area of the Civil Hospital in Strasbourg as of March 2, 2020. March 2 will mark the…
CEIPI is proud to announce that the center has been selected for the third time as external expert for the JURI Committee (Legal Affairs) of the European Parliament, following the call for tenders to which CEIPI responded in February 2019, Framework contract on Expertise on Regulatory and Policy…
CEIPI is pleased to announce that Mr. Yann Basire, Associate Professor at CEIPI, has just taken up office as Director General of CEIPI, since 1st September 2019, for a period of 5 years, following his election by the Council of Administration of CEIPI of 7 December 2018. Mr. Basire, who is also…
Professor Christophe Geiger, Director of the CEIPI Research Department, has been elected by the General Assembly of the ATRIP Association on 28 August 2019 in Nashville (USA), as the next President of the association for a term of two years, starting from 2021. He will succeed Professor Jens…
A cooperation agreement was signed between CEIPI and the Faculty of Law of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia, on 19 June 2019, in Strasbourg, in the presence of Professor Christophe Geiger, Director General and Director of the Research Department of CEIPI and Professor Natalie…
The CEIPI was pleased to welcome on 12 June 2019, Prof. Xiang Yu, Director of the Sino-European Institute for Intellectual Property of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, for several lectures at CEIPI and for signing the renewal of their cooperation agreement. Th…
The CEIPI is happy to announce the publication of the 67th volume “Computer Implemented Inventions: Challenges, Current Practices and Perspectives” with LexisNexis, in June 2019, edited by Professor Christophe Geiger, Director General and Director of the Research Department of CEIPI, University of…
The CEIPI was pleased to welcome, on 9 May 2019, Mr. Pascal Faure, Director General of INPI, for a conference and for the renewal of their cooperation agreement. The CEIPI and the French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) show a long cooperation. Eager to develop both their…
At the 11th edition of the national moot competition focusing on Intellectual Property (CN2PI) organised in Lyon on 28/03/2019, two teams representing the CEIPI have reached the semi-finals. Our congratulations go to the students of Professional Master 2 (LLM). The teams were supervised by Yann…
It is with great sadness that CEIPI and AACEIPI have just learned about the death of Mr. Philippe Chêne. Philippe Chêne, graduate of CEIPI, headed for many years the industrial property service at the General Delegation for Armaments of the Ministry of National Defense; as such, he was in charge of…
We have the pleasure to inform you that Mélanie Chassaing, graduate student of the CEIPI Master in Intellectual Property and Cultural Heritage for the academic year 2017/2018, just won the third price of the 2019 APRAM (Association des Praticiens du Droit des Marques et des Modèles) competition. Th…
Xavier Seuba, Associate Professor, Academic Coordinator and Scientific Responsible at CEIPI, and Professor Carlos Correa from the University of Buenos Aires, have coedited and just released Intellectual Property and Development, Understanding the Interfaces. Liber amicorum Pedro Roffe, a book that…
In order to contribute to the debate on the ongoing copyright reform at the EU level, CEIPI drafted an Opinion on the proposal to facilitate use of out-of-commerce works, as presented in the European Commission’s Proposal for a Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market of 14 September…
CEIPI is very pleased to announce the that the book Intellectual Property and the Judiciary has been granted on the 12th January 2019 by the famous blog IP Kat the “best IP book of the year”-award. This book, published in November 2018, was edited by Christophe Geiger, Professor of Law, Director…
We are profoundly shaken and shocked by the tragic events that occurred yesterday within the European capital of Strasbourg. We would like to express our entire support to all of the persons and families concerned by this shooting at the Christmas market. Since yesterday evening, we have received…
Press release by the President of the Administrative Board of CEIPI, Benoît Battistelli In a context of major development of CEIPI’s activities and its European and international influence, the CEIPI Administrative Board amended, at the meeting held on 7 December 2018, the statutes of the center in…