2022 06 22 ATRIP 2022 Congress – Online
IPR in Times of Crisis: Lessons Learned from the Covid-19 Pandemic
Welcome to the 40th ATRIP Congress. The theme of this online Congress is “IPR in Times of Crisis: Lessons Learned from the Covid-19 Pandemic”.
The pandemic provides a unique prism to observe how the various IPR frameworks can encourage innovation while ensuring access in times of crisis: Did the flexibilities in the international legal framework provide an acceptable global response? Did patents spur the technological breakthrough when most desperately needed or, rather, mainly prevent or delay the rollout of vaccines to all? When the world needed access to teaching materials, public information, and culture online, how did copyright holders respond? The pandemic led to a boom in online shopping, but did platforms do enough to protect holders of trade marks and consumers against counterfeits? Should the flood of trade mark applications associated with the pandemic for non-medical related goods be seen as a sign of entrepreneurial spirit or as a violation of trade mark law?
The 40th ATRIP Congress takes stock of the lessons learned so far from how the IPR system has fared in response to the unprecedented global crisis, which continues to unfold and impedes us once more from meeting in person
We regret that the pandemic prevents us from holding the conference in Copenhagen as originally intended. I would have very much liked to welcome you personally to my hometown and university! However, in these times, the health and safety of our members, their families, and our communities must remain our highest priority. Concurrently, holding the Congress virtually allows for access to speakers and audience from all-over the world and is a great opportunity for the ATRIP community to meet and to share our research, experiences, hopes and concerns.
I look forward to welcoming you virtually to the Congress and hope you enjoy the 40th annual ATRIP Congress.
Jens Schovsbo, Professor, University of Copenhagen
ATRIP President: president@atrip.org
The Program and links to Excerpts
Links To Congress Images HERE
Panel 1: Setting the scene for “IPR in times of crisis”
Joe Bradley: WIPO’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Peter K. Yu: Deferring Intellectual Property Rights in Pandemic Times
Chijioke Okorie: Teaching and research-related exceptions in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons for and from South Africa
Martin Senftleben: The impact of the COVID pandemic on the income prospects of authors and performers
Panel 2: Is there a need to reform TRIPS?
Akshat Agrawal: Waiving Windfalls: The Socio-Legal and Contextual justification of a “TRIPS Waiver” during the COVID-19 pandemic
Suelen Carls: There is a need for improvement, but where?
Jia WANG (Angelia) and Cindy Zheng: Reform the TRIPS Flexibilities to Better Tackle Public Health Crisis
Panel 3: Patents in times of crisis
Duncan Matthews and Timo Minssen: Raising the Bar: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic for the European Patent System
Bassem Awad: If not now, When? Reform of Patent law in Times of Crisis
Barbara Lauriat: Public Relations and Patents
Milton Lucídio Leão Barcellos: The Patent Right evolution during the pandemic: The unconstitutionality of the Patent Term Extension and the new Compulsory Licensing Regulations in Brazil
Panel 4: Copyright in times of crisis
Metka Potočnik: Revitalising the UK Music Industries in the Aftermath of Covid-19: a Feminist Critique of Music Copyright
Samuel Samiai Andrews: The Creative Ingenuity of Cinematic Digital Era: Nollywood’s Response in the Space of a Pandemic, Covid-19
Giulia Priora and Péter Mezei: The Educators’ Guide to the Galaxy: How to Implement the EU Digital Teaching Exception
Antoni Rubí Puig: What can the contract adjustment mechanism for authors and performers learn from case law on contracts and COVID-19?
Panel 5: Education and research in times of crisis
Genevieve Wilkinson and Evana Wright: How can we unblock rights to access the benefits of science? A rights-based approach to IP and technology transfer in the Covid-19 era
Bernd Justin Jütte: Maneuvering out of the Crisis: The Fundamental Right to Research and its Implications for Copyright Law in the EU
Klaus Beiter: Do We Need Another Copyright or Another Science? (Re)interpreting the REBSPA for Scholarly Publishing
Panel 6: Flexibilities in times of crisis
Enrico Bonadio and Magali Contardi: Compulsory Licences are Back! How the Covid-19 Pandemic has Revamped the Debate over a Controversial TRIPS Flexibility
Mikhalien du Bois: Adequate Remuneration for Crown Use of Patents: Some Guidance from Constitutional Property Law
Naomi Hawkins: Biomedical research, participants and access to innovation: Patents and the protection of the public interest
Maciej Barczewski: Pandemic Solidarity – Increasing Responsiveness to Public Interest Considerations in Intellectual Property Law
Panel 7: Licensing and access to information in times of crisis
M. Padmavati: Vaccine licensing in pandemic times
Sean Michael Fiil-Flynn: Responding to COVID Through Recognition of the Right to Research in Comparative Copyright
Agnieszka Sztoldman: Patent pools: A licensing option for COVID-19 medicines and SARS CoV 2 vaccines?
Thomas Margoni: A deeper look into the EU Text and Data Mining exceptions: Harmonisation, data ownership, and the future of technology
Panel 8: Regulating markets in times of crisis
Dana Beldiman and Stina Teilman-Lock: Circular designs – is (European) design law fit for the environmental crisis?
Marc Mimler: 3D Printing, IPR and Health Emergencies
Paul Justin Heald: Trade marks and Covid
Irene Calboli: Lesson from the COVID-19 Pandemic for Trademark Law? The Case (for a Better Way) to Prevent Opportunistic Trademark Applications
Links to Congress Videos —
Day one
Panel 1: Setting the scene for “IPR in times of crisis”
Panel 2: Is there a need to reform TRIPS?
Panel 3: Patents in times of crisis
Day two
Panel 4: Copyright in times of crisis
Panel 5: Education and research in times of crisis
Panel 6: Flexibilities in times of crisis
Day three
Panel 7: Licensing and access to information in times of crisis
Panel 8: Regulating markets in times of crisis
Panel 9: Essay Competition and presentation of “FICPI young scholar’s prize”
