Today and tomorrow I will be speaking at a couple of events in Barcelona, Spain. As always, I will be happy to meet any readers of this blog who happen to be at either of these.
The event today (March 25) is hosted by the ESADE Alumni Law Club, the ESADE
Entrepreneurship Institute, and the ESADE Law School, and is titled 'Patent
Wars? A debate about the role of patents for entrepreneurs. Here is a link to the announcement, and here is the event's description and agenda:
Patents are ubiquitous in contemporary life. Practically everything we use incorporates one or more patented inventions, and recent years have witnessed epic disputes about such matters as the patenting of human genes, the control of smartphone design and technology, the marketing of patented drugs, and the conduct of "patent trolls" accused of generating revenue from nuisance litigation. But what exactly is a patent? And what role do they play for entrepreneurs?
In this event, Professor Thomas Cotter, one of America's leading patent law scholars, will offer an accessible, lively, and up-to-date examination of the current state of patent law, showing how patents affect everything from the food we eat to the cars we drive to the devices that entertain and inform us. He will focus on patenting in various parts of the economy including genes, medical procedures, software, and business methods.
Following that, a panel of experts will discuss how patent law affects entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurs can use patents to their advantage.
The ESADE Alumni Law Club, the ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute and the ESADE Law School are pleased to announce their forthcoming talk 'Patent Wars? A debate about the role of patents for entrepreneurs'.
Programme:
Speakers:
Thomas Cotter, University of Minnesota Law School
Miquel Montaña, Partner at Clifford Chance Spain and lecturer at ESADE Law School
Cheryl Fragiadakis, Technology consultant and formerly head of technology transfer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California.
George Chondrakis, Assistant professor of strategic management at ESADE Business School.
Carles Puente, Co-founder and VP of Innovation at Fractus Antennas and professor at UPC
See you there!
Members are welcome to bring a guest
For further details
clubderecho@alumni.esade.edu
The event tomorrow (March 26) is hosted by the
Bar Association of Barcelona and is titled "Current
Affairs of Patents Conference: American and European Perspective." I
will be on three panels, discussing the doctrine of equivalents,
patentable subject matter, invalidation proceedings, and injunctions.
Here are links to the event announcement in Spanish, Catalan, and English. Here is the program:
“CURRENT AFFAIRS OF PATENTS
CONFERENCE.
AMERICAN AND
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES”
BARCELONA, March
26, 2019
BAR
ASSOCIATION OF BARCELONA
16:30h: WELCOME AND OPENING
REMARKS.
María Eugenia Gay
Rosell. Dean of the Bar Association of Barcelona
Carles Prat Masip. Lawyer. Member of
the Industrial Property Commission of the Bar Association of Barcelona
Presentation by Florencio Molina
López, Judge. Commercial Court of Barcelona (Patent Section) of Professor Thomas
F. Cotter of the University of Minnesota Law School (USA) and of his book:
PATENT WARS: HOW PATENTS IMPACT OUR DAILY LIVES (Oxford University Press 2018)
17:00h: PANEL 1: patent infringement.
doctrine of equivalents.
Chair: Cristina
Vallejo Ros. Laywer. Deputy
of the the Bar Association of Barcelona.
Panelists:
Oriol
Ramón Sauri. Patent
Lawyer.
Yolanda Ríos López. Judge. Commercial Court of Barcelona
(Patent Section)
Thomas F. Cotter, Professor of the University of Minnesota
Law School
18:00h: COFFEE BREAK
18:30h: PANEL 2: PATENTABLE SUBJECT MATTER.
INVALIDATION: PROCEEDINGS AND SUBSTANTIVE ASPECTS.
Chair: Antoni
Romaní Lluch. Lawyer. Vice President of the Industrial Property Commission of
the Bar Association of Barcelona
Panelists:
Javier Huarte Larrañaga. Patent
Lawyer.
Alfonso Merino Rebollo. Judge. Commercial Court of Barcelona
(Patent Section)
Thomas F. Cotter, Professor of the University of
Minnesota Law School
19:30h: PANEL 3: INJUNCTIONS. COURTS
IN PATENT CASES.
Chair: David
Pellisé Urquiza. Patent
Lawyer.
Panelists:
Miquel Montañá Mora. Patent
Lawyer.
José Mª Fernández Seijo. Judge. Court of Appeals of Barcelona, 15th
Section.
Thomas
F. Cotter, Professor of the University of Minnesota Law School
20:30h: CONCLUSION
Yvonne Pavia Lalauze. Laywer. Deputy of the the
Bar Association of Barcelona.
Conference organizers:
Antoni Romaní Lluch. Lawyer. Vice
President of the Industrial Property Commission of the Bar Association of
Barcelona
Yvonne Pavia Lalauze. Laywer. Member
of the the Bar Association of Barcelona.
Cristina Vallejo Ros. Laywer. Member
of the the Bar Association of Barcelona.
Patent
Section of the Commercial Court of Barcelona.
·
Language: English. Without
translation service
Registration
Price: 10€ for all
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