Third Annual Conference Of The EPIP Association Announced

by Ulrika Lomas, for LawAndTax-News.com, Brussels

18 August 2008

It was announced this week that the third annual European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) conference will be held in Switzerland on the 3rd and 4th October, 2008.

The conference will address topics of general interest in the area of IPR, such as:

• The national and European legal regime’s evolution;
• Incentives and organisation of patent offices;
• IPR litigation and enforcement;
• University patenting;
• Patents in new technological fields;
• The governance of IPR systems;
• The impact of IPR on competition and innovation; and
• New methods and tools for the management of intellectual assets.

Because of the close geographical proximity of the conference location to WIPO, WTO, WHO and UNCTAD (all based in Geneva), emphasis will be given to the challenges encountered by developing countries in the context of the TRIPS (trade related aspects of intellectual property rights) regime.

Scholars and practitioners interested in the economic, legal and management aspects of intellectual property rights are being encouraged to attend the conference.

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