Conference Thursday and Friday on Injunctions and Flexibility

On April 4-5, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich will be hosting a conference titled "Injunctions and Flexibility in Patent Law - Civil Law and Common Law Perspectives," at which I will again be discussing the economics of injunctions in patent cases.  Here is a link to the conference announcement, here is a link to the flyer, and here is the agenda:

Thursday, April 4:

10:00 – 10:15 Get-together & registration
 
10:15 – 10:30 Welcoming remarks
 
10:30 – 13:00 Economic foundations, civil & common
law perspectives
 
Thomas Cotter
University of Minnesota Law School
The law & economics perspective
 
Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan
University of Cambridge
The international legal framework
 
Lionel Bently
University of Cambridge
Injunctions in common law
 
Franz Hofmann 
Friedrich Alexander
University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Injunctions in civil law
 
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
 
14:00 – 17:00 Injunctions and proportionality
 
Richard Arnold
High Court of England and Wales
Proportionality in EU and English law
 
Klaus Grabinski
Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof)
Use-by-periods and proportionality in German law
 
Willem Hoyng
University of Tilburg and HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER
Proportionality, the UPC and the CJEU
 
Sapna Kumar
University of Houston Law Center
eBay v. MercExchange: model or monster?
 
17:00 – 18:00 Recent research
 
Rafał Sikorski
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań
Global convergence of approaches towards injunctive relief in patent law: achieving flexibility via different legal tools
 
Martin Stierle
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
Injunctions and compulsory licenses
 
Arthur von Martels 
Amsterdam
Preliminary injunctions in patent litigation
 

Friday, April 5:

09:00 – 11:00 The scope and style of injunctions
 
Matthias Zigann
Regional Court Munich I (Landgericht München I)
Injunctions as duties to abstain
 
Jaani Riordan 
8 New Square, London
Injunctions as specific orders
 
Ulrike Voß 
Court of Appeal Düsseldorf (Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf)
A duty to recall?
 
Penny Gilbert 
Powell Gilbert LLP
Exceptions from injunctions and product recall – scenarios where infringing activities could continue
 
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
 
11:15 – 12:45 Injunctions and medical use
 
Maximilian Haedicke
Albert Ludwig University Freiburg
EPC 2000 and second medical uses: how to align scope and remedies?
 
Justin Turner 
3 New Square, London
Drafting injunctions in second medical use


12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
 
13:45 – 16:30 Injunctions and FRAND
 
David Kitchin
Supreme Court of the UK
Injunctions in FRAND proceedings – a UK perspective
 
James Robart
US District Court
The view from the corner of competition law and patents
 
Christoph Rademacher
Waseda University School of Law, Tokyo
SEP enforcement and government policy in Japan and China
 
Peter Picht
University of Zurich, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Injunctions in SEP cases: current practice and innovative models
 
16:30 – 17:00 Closing remarks
 
Matthias Leistner and Ansgar Ohly
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich