TIME

SESSION & SPEAKER

8:30-9:00

Registration 報到

9:00-9:20

Opening remarks 開幕致詞

• 智慧財產局局長 洪淑敏
• 智慧財產法院院長 陳國成
• 臺北科技大學校長 王錫福
• 專利師公會理事長 林宗宏

9:20-9:25 

Group photo團體照

PART 1  UK

9:25-10:30

• AI in IP

• Saiful KHAN

• Significant UK patent decisions – "G1/19: Questions referred to the EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal: Just what do they mean?"

• Pawel PIOTROWICZ

• UK designs - approaches to infringement

•  Michael ELLIS

• Recent update of GB patent practice (prosecution or litigation)

• David GRAINGER

• Q&A (5 min)

10:30-10:45

Break 中場休息

PART 2  UK & EPO

10:45-12:00

Session 2: special topics

• Brexit (25 min talk + 5 min Q&A)

• Richard MAIR

Vice President of CIPA

Chair of the International Liaison Committee

• IP in Europe: trends, challenges and opportunities (40 min talk + 5 min Q&A)

• Alberto CASADO

Former Vice President of the EPO

12:00-13:00

午餐

PART 3  FR

13:00-14:05

Session 3: France

• Hague – the International Design System

• Ms Guylène KIESEL LE COSQUER

President

French Patent and Trademark Attorneys Institute (CNCPI)

• Introduction of the FR design and trademark system

• Soazig THÉMOIN

Partner, French and European Trademark and Design Attorney

• Recent update of FR patent practice (prosecution or litigation

• Ina SCHREIBER

President, Unitary Patent & Unified Patent Court Committee

French Patent and Trademark Attorneys Institute (CNCPI)

• Q&A (5 mins)

PART 4  DE & Panel Discussion

• Inspection Order in German Law

• Nanno LENZ

President, German Patent Attorneys Association (GPAA)

• Q&A (5 mins)

14:55-15:05

Break 中場休息

15:05-15:55

Wrap-up  總結

 5位專利代理人和EPO前副局長與談

PART 5  TW

15:55-17:30

• The legal issues of patent co-ownership in Taiwan: concurrently discussing the contract strategy for academic entity

• Mr. Tzu-Chung Lin (林子中)

Project Manager, Department of IP and Technology Transfer, Academia Sinica, TW

• The issue of patentability related to the method of computer simulation T-0489/14 of EPO

• Mr. Hung-San Kuo (郭宏杉)

Professor, Institute of Intellectual Property, National Taipei University of Technology

• Q&A (10 mins) 16:25-16:35
• Current examination practice of Japanese trademark in Taiwan

• Mr. Yih-Lin Chung (鍾亦琳)

Lawyer, Louis & Charles Attorneys at Law

• Your name, but you cannot use it? From perspectives of commercial using trademarks about famous names

• Ms. Ying-Xuan Xiao (蕭頴暄), Mr. Kuang-Cheng Chen* (陳匡正)

*Professor, Institute of Intellectual Property, National Taipei University of Technology

• Generic name’s trademark protection-A case study of Tutor ABC

• Mr. Yu-Liang Lin (林育良), Mr. Kuang-Cheng Chen* (陳匡正)

*Professor, Institute of Intellectual Property, National Taipei University of Technology

• Q&A (10 mins)

17:30-

Closing 閉幕