On 11 October 2017, the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organization has elected António Campinos as President of the European Patent Office (EPO). Mr. Campinos, who is currently Executive Director of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and also President of the…
The Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) is pleased to announce the publication of the fourth issue in the CEIPI/ICTSD series on Global Perspectives and Challenges for the Intellectual Property System, produced jointly with the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable…
CEIPI is happy to announce that Asako Wechs Hatanaka, doctor of CEIPI, University of Strasbourg and associate professor at Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan), was awarded on 5th September 2017, the Best Paper for an Emerging Scholar for her article “Optmising Mediation for Intellectual Property…
The CEIPI is happy to announce the publication in August 2017 of the volume “Trade-related international intellectual property law: the TRIPs Agreement, assessment and perspectives”, edited by Professor Christophe Geiger, Director General and Director of the Research Department of CEIPI, LexisNexis,…
We are pleased to announce that the CEIPI is now member of the "Social Science Research Network" (SSRN) and holds an archive in Open Access dedicated to its research within the "Legal Schorlarship Network" (LSN ), available under : https://www.ssrn.com/link/CEIPI-RES.html This archive, which is…
The CEIPI has the pleasure to announce that Mr. Leonardo Machado Pontes, PhD student at CEIPI, under the supervision of Prof. Christophe Geiger, won the 1st prize of the annual ECTA award competition 2017, in the “student” category for his paper “Commercial Trade Mark Parodies”. ECTA, the European…
A portrait of the CEIPI was published in the newsletter of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR), May 2017. Click here for more information on GRUR. Click here to download the article.
The CEIPI - BETA Project in Law and economics of Intellectual Property, in association with I3PM, organized on 4 may 2017 a one-day conference with the title Intellectual Property and Digitalization: Challenges for Intellectual Property Management. The conference addressed the revolutionary changes…
We have the pleasure to inform you that Anna Lawrynowicz-Drewek, student of the Master in European and International Intellectual Property directed by Professor Christophe Geiger, just won the first price of the 2017 APRAM (Association des Praticiens du Droit des Marques et des Modèles) competition.…
With the aim of creating a copyright guide for consumers, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (the EUIPO), acting through the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights, commissioned a study in order to provide ‘answers to the most frequently asked questions…
We are pleased to announce the publication of the book “L’essentiel du droit de la propriété industrielle”, by Mr. Yann Basire, Associate professor at the University of Haute Alsace (UHA) and at CEIPI and associate member of CEIPI Research department, editor Gualino, January. This first edition,…
Mrs Asako Wechs Hatanaka, Associate Professor at Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan), received on 8th December 2016, the thesis prize (ex aequo) of the Research federation “L’Europe en mutation” for her thesis defended on 26th September 2016 within CEIPI’s Research Department “Mediation and…
Experts discuss “Copyright Enforcement in the Online World” at a high level event at the Council of Europe, with the participation of Andrus Ansip, Vice President of the European Commission & EU Commissioner for the Digital Single Market On Tuesday, 22nd November 2016, the Centre for International…
In order to contribute to the debate on the ongoing EU copyright reform, CEIPI drafted an Opinion on the proposed introduction of neighbouring rights for press publishers in EU law. The proposal is included in the European Commission’s Draft Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market of 14…
The Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) is very pleased to announce the publication of the third issue in the CEIPI/ICTSD series on Global Perspectives and Challenges for the Intellectual Property System, produced jointly with the International Centre for Trade and…
Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled, adopted in Marrakesh, on 27 June 2013, entered into force on 30 September 2016, three months after it gained the necessary 20 ratifications or accessions by WIPO member…
The Intellectual Property Rights University Center brings together six of Finland’s most prestigious universities, namely: University of Helsinki, Aalto University, University of Turku, Hanken School of Economics, University of Eastern Finland et University of Lapland. CEIPI signed this cooperation…
With effect from 2017, there will be one single Paper A and one single Paper B for all candidates. The former distinction between the technical fields of Chemistry and Electricity/Mechanics will no longer apply. Mock papers for Papers A and Paper B in the new format have recently been published by…
On 22 September 2016 will take place the opening of the second edition of the training program for technically qualified judges of the Unified Patent Court. This second edition, held in partnership with the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), will take place at CEIPI, in Strasbourg, …
The EU Commission has released a major legal review prepared in the framework of its evaluation of the Union-wide design protection system. Prof. Christophe Geiger, Director General of the CEIPI, and Natalia Kapyrina, Phd candidate and researcher at the CEIPI, have contributed to this study with…