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ATRIP 34th Annual Congress
September 27 – 30, 2015
Cape Town

 

PROGRAMME AND AGENDA

Dates: 27–30 September 2015 President: Prof. Tana Pistorius
Focus: ‘Intellectual Property in Action in Society’ Programme:
Host: University of South Africa Links: Archive

WELCOME FROM THE PRESIDENT

Dear Delegates

It is with a warm heart and lots of excitement that we welcome you to the 34th ATRIP Congress. IP researchers and teachers have a special bond which is known as ATRIP. We hope that the 34th ATRIP Congress will be everything you hoped for academically, socially and culturally.

We trust you will enjoy your stay in Cape Town – the Mother City of South Africa – and that you will experience a little bit of the legendary South African warmth and hospitality.

It has been a great honour for us to host the 34th ATRIP Congress in Cape Town.

Tana Pistorius
on behalf of the ATRIP Organising Committee

HIGHLIGHTS

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Day 1,

Monday 27 September

Session 1. Perspectives on IP and Innovation

Chair: Daniel Gervais, Vanderbilt University

Perspectives form the South on IP and Innovation

Carlos Correa, University of Buenos Aires

“Open” Innovation Frameworks

Jeremy de Beer, University of Ottawa

Trade Secrets, Employee Mobility and Innovation: “in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone”

Gintarė Surblytė, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

Innovation, Creativity and Addressing Societal Problems: Looking beyond Geography and Intellectual Property

Abbe Brown, University of Aberdeen 

Putting Diversity on the Intellectual Property Map: In the North, the South and the Cloud

 Irene Calboli, Singapore Management University 

Session 2. Economic and Social Perspectives on IP Valuation and Investment

Chair: Christian le Stanc, University of Montpellier 

The Effects of Patent-Law Reforms on the Structure and Growth of Exports

Keith Maskus, University of Colorado

The Missing Link? Corporate Narrative Reporting of Intellectual Property Assets

Janice Denoncourt, Nottingham Law School 

The Indicative Value of Patent Statistics

Joseph Straus, University of South Africa 

The Valuation of Unprotected Works: A Case Study of Public Domain Photographs on Wikipedia

Paul Heald, University of Illinois 

Protection of Intellectual Property as “Covered Investments” under the International Investment Agreements

 https://www.osmania.ac.in/lawcollege/Faculty/Vidyakumari.pdf, Osmania University 

Session 3. Patent Law

Chair: Niva Elkin-Koren, University of Haifa 

Patentable Subject Matter: A View from the Antipodes

 Dianne Nicol, University of Tasmania 

A Right to Adequate Remuneration for the Experimental-Use Exception in Patent Law: Collectively Managing our Way through the Thickets and Stacks

Jessica Lai, University of Lucerne

Patent Rights and Digital Trade

Sapna Kumar, University of Houston

Session 4. Trade and Plant Breeders’ Protection

 Chair: Andries van der Merwe, University of Pretoria

A Proposed New Regime for the Protection of Plant Breeders’ Rights and of Plant Improvements in South Africa

Coenraad Visser, University of South Africa 

US FTAs with Chile, Colombia, and Gua- temala: a Southern View on Plant Variety Protection

Viola Prifti, Unaffiliated 

Plant Breeders’ Rights in Africa: Implica- tions for “Stakeholders”

Chidi Oguamanam, University of Ottawa 

Session 5. Presentation of the Winner of the 2015 ATRIP Essay Competition

Chair and Introduction: Jan Rosén , Stockholm University 

Welcome dinner and reception at Gold restaurant in Greenpoint.

Day 2,

Tuesday 29 September

Co-Ordination Chairs: Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons, University of Toledo and Eddie Hurter, University of South Africa

Breakfast Roundtable A: Collaborative Innovation IP and Trade

Chair: Tobias Schonmetter, University of Cape Town 

3D Printing, Innovation, and Intellectual Property: Two Case Scenarios

 Phoebe Li, University of Sussex 

Green Energy Strategic Management on Intellectual Property -LED vs Solar Energy-

Mei-Hsin Wang, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology 

University-Industry Collaboration for Development in Africa: Emerging Trends, Present Challenges and Future Prospects

Adejoke Oyewunmi, Africa University 

IP and innovation in Russian Federation

 Ivan Zenin, Moscow State Lomonosov University 

Breakfast Roundtable B: Patent Law in Society

Chair: Martin J. Adelman, George Washington University Law School 

Patentability of Nanomedicine Methods in Europe

Ana Nordberg, University of Copenhagen 

Out of the Patent Thicket?” Patentability, Pharmaceutical Patents and the Abuse of Patent Rights

Melissa Akinyi Omino, University of Fort Hare 

Standing on the Edge: What Type of “Exclusive Licensees” Should be able to Initiate Patent Infringement Proceedings?

John Liddicoat, University of Tasmania 

Can Patents Contribute to Fight Obesity and Related Diseases? Some Reflections and Three Proposals

Enrico Bonadio, City University London 

Breakfast Roundtable C: Copyright, Culture and Competition Law

Chair: Sadulla Karjiker, Stellenbosch University 

Copyright, Creative Industries and Cultural Diversity

Branislav Hazucha, Hokkaido University 

Conventional Intellectual Property Rights Regimes and African Indigenous Heritage: Where do we go from here?

Eliamani Laltaika, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology 

A Monopolised World of Soccer: Is Competition Law Still in Existence?

Boaz Masuku, University of South Africa 

Contrast of Trade Liberalization and Trademark Infringement in Google Adwords

 Mohammad Bagher Asghariaghamashhadi, University of Bologna University of Torino Tilburg University and Mykolos Romerio University 

Breakfast Roundtable D: Interrelationship Between IP, Development and Human Rights

Chair: Svetlana Kazmina, Russian State Academy 

Geographical Indication as an Intellectual Property and Tool for Development in India and its Impact on Rural Society

Vandana Singh, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University 

The Soft Revolutions: The Role of Non- State Actors in Intellectual Property Regimes

Hsiao-Fen Hsu, Tunghai University 

“Please Mind the Gap!” – Drafting a Declaration on Establishing Conformity between International Intellectual Property Regimes and International Human Rights Law

Klaus D. Beiter, University of Lincoln 

From an IP Desert to a Large FTO Market

Nicolas Binctin, Université de Poitiers 

 

Session 7. Copyright Law

Chair: Irini Stamatoudi, Greek National Copyright Organization 

A manifesto for an e-lending limitation in copyright

Séverine Dusollier, SciencesPo Paris 

Publishing Without Property: Commons- Based Social Publishing and its Implications for Copyright

Lea Shaver, Indiana University 

The Curse of Monetary Incentives – How to Make Copyright Law an Engine of Autonomous Art and Alternative Visions of Society

Martin Senftleben, VU University Amsterdam 

Creative Development: Can Copyright Foster Content Industries in the Global South?

Sean A. Pager, Michigan State University 

 

Session 8. Territoriality and Enforcement

Chair: Reto Hilty, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition 

The online management of IP – Offensive and Defensive

Alison Firth, University of Surrey 

 

Privatization and Automation of Rights Enforcement on the Internet

Alexander Peukert, Goethe University 

The Future Prospect of Indirect Infringement under Patent Law in terms of International Harmonization: Going through the Blockade of New Technologies and Territoriality

Chung-Lun Shen, National Chengchi University 

 

Session 9. Trademarks

Chair: Annette Kur, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition 

Trade Mark Registration and Commercial Reality

Graeme Dinwoodie, University of Oxford 

Trademarks and their (Contested) Functions

Mark Davison, Monash University 

Certification Marks: Just another Sign?

Alexandra Mogyoros, Oxford University 

 

Session 10. (Unfair) Competition

Chair: Jens Schovsbo, University of Copenhagen 

Property and Competition: Academic Criticism of the Interface

William Cornish, Cambridge University 

Intellectual Property Infringement as Unfair Competition

John T. Cross, University of Louisville 

TFRAND Licensing, Patent Infringement Proceedings and the Private Enforcement of Competition Law: An Explosive Cocktail?

Paul Torremans, University of Nottingham 

Towards the Seamless Global Distribution of Cloud Content

Peter K. Yu, Texas A&M University 

Gala Dinner at Jonkershuis Constantia.

Day 3,

Wednesday 30 September

 

Session 11. Protection of Traditional Knowledge

Chair: Susy Frankel, Victoria University of Wellington 

Emerging Standards in the Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions in Africa

Enyinna Nwauche, Rhodes University Property (INPI) 

Intellectual Property Law as a Knowledge System: Law Reform Lessons from Indigenous Societies

Alexandra George, University of New South Wales 

Multilateral Partnership Model for Developing New Herbal Medicine Employing African Traditional Knowledge

MiKyung Kim, Seoul National University 

Geographical Indications and Protection of Traditional Knowledge Exploring Case Studies from both Developed and Developing Countries

Nicola Lucchi, Jönköping International Business School 

 

Session 12. Research and Teaching

Chair: Ysolde Gendreau, University of Montreal 

Using Digital Tools to Facilitate Intercultural Knowledge Exchange and Collaboration in the Field of IP

Bronwen Jones, Jönköping International Business School 

The WIPO Academy and the Development of IP Teaching

Sherif Saadallah, WIPO Academy 

Interactive On-line Teaching of IP to an International Audience

Altaye Tedla and Bassem Awad, WIPO Academy Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) 

 

Session 13. National Perspectives on IP in Society

Chair: Christophe Geiger, CEIPI University of Strasbourg 

Too much Protection too Little Benefits: The Case with Copyright Extension under the TPPA

Ida Madieha Bt. Abdul Ghani Azmi and Rokiah Alavi, International Islamic University Malaysia 

The Participation of Society in Rule-making

Orit Fischman Afori, The Haim Striks School of Law 

Copyright and Publicly-Funded Arts and Humanities Research: Identifying and Developing Sustainable Exploitation Models in the Digital Economy

Charlotte Waelde, University of Exeter 

IP Regulation and Management Promoting International Collaborative Innovation – Based on Case Studies of China-US & China-EU/EEA Collaboration on CCS Technology

Xiang Yu, Huazhong University of Science & Technology 

Farewell Lunch at Grand Africa.