St. Peter’s College, Universityof Oxford and OxfordIntellectual Property

Research Centre at St. Peter’s

St. Peter ’s C ollege, Uni versity of O xfordO xford, U.K .

THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2005 (Reception)

FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 20 05 SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 20 05

I N T E R N AT I O N A L I N T E LL E C T U A L P R O P E R T Y L AW S Y M P O S I A

D AV I D VAV E RA C A DE MI C DIR EC TORIN T E R N AT ION A L IN T E LLEC T U A L P ROP E RT Y L AW S U M M E R P RO GR A M

P ROFE S S OR OF IN T E LLEC T U A L P ROP E RT Y A N D IN FOR M AT ION T EC H NOLO GY L AW, U NI V E R S I T Y OF OX FOR D

DIR EC TOR , OX FOR D IN T E LLEC T U A L P ROP E RT Y R E S E A R C H C E N TR E , S T. P E T E R ’ S C OLLEGE

Professor David Vaver, M.A. (Oxon.), B.A., LL.B. (Auckland),J.D. (Chicago). Professor Vaver is the Professor of IntellectualProperty & Information Technology Law at the University ofOxford and Director of the Oxford Intellectual PropertyResearch Centre at St Peter's College, Oxford. Before heassumed his chair in 1998, he was based at Osgoode Hall LawSchool in Toronto, where he was a Professor of Law. He wasalso previously on the Faculty of Law at the University ofBritish Columbia and at the University of Auckland. He waseditor-in-chief of the Intellectual Property Journal from itsinception in 1984 to 1998, and remains a consultant editor.Professor Vaver is the author of Intellectual Property Law:Copyright, Patents, Trade-marks (1997) and Copyright Law(2000), both published by Irwin Law (Toronto).

www.spc.ox.ac.ukwww.oiprc.ox.ac.uk

June 2005

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you, on behalfof St Peter’s College, to this year’s InternationalIntellectual Property Symposia. The Symposia markthe start of the International Intellectual PropertySummer School, an annual programme run jointly bythe Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre at St. Peter’s College, Oxford, the University of Victoria,Faculty of Law (Canada), and the University of IllinoisCollege of Law.

We are proud to offer a unique programme over thesetwo days on a variety of critical intellectual propertytopics. The distinguished speakers come from thejudiciary, from the world of legal practice and fromacademia to discuss trends and developments in thisfield from their particular experience and perspective.

I know that you will benefit from the programme, andhope that you will also find the time to look aroundour beautiful and historic city while you are here.

Bernard Silverman

THE MASTERSt. Peter’s CollegeOxford

R O B E R T H O W E LLA C A DE MI C DIR EC TORIN T E R N AT ION A L IN T E LLEC T U A L P ROP E RT Y L AW S U M M E R P RO GR A M

P ROFE S S ORUNIVERSIT Y OF VICTORIA, FACULT Y OF L AW

Professor Robert Howell has been with the Faculty of Law at

the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada since

1980. He specializes in intellectual property law, private

international law (conflict of laws), telecommunications law

and the law and policies concerning the managing and

marketing of intellectual property and related rights. He has

published nationally and internationally in these fields and

those of private international law and competition law to the

extent that these areas concern intellectual property law. In

1999 he published (with Vincent and Manson) Intellectual

Property law, Cases and Materials and in 2002 he produced

his 2nd edition of “Database Protection and Canadian Law”

for the Canadian Federal department of Canadian Heritage.

He is currently completing a text on telecommunications law

in Canada including the law as applied to the Internet. He

has organized and participated in national and international

conferences and (from 1997) summer Intellectual Property

Programs. The current summer International Intellectual

Property program has received the Canadian Association of

University Continuing Education (CAUCE) 2002 Award for

the best international program.

www.law.uvic.ca

J AY K E S A NA C A DE MI C DIR EC TORIN T E R N AT ION A L IN T E LLEC T U A L P ROP E RT Y L AW S U M M E R P RO GR A M

P ROFE S S ORU NI V E R S I T Y OF ILLINOIS C OLLEGE OF L AW

June 24, 11:15 am – 1:00 pm

“Pharmaceutical Patents in the United States: Their Scopeand Their Infringement.”

Professor Jay Kesan’s academic interests are focused in thearea of intellectual property, specifically patent law, and lawand technology. He received his J.D. from GeorgetownUniversity. After graduation, he clerked for Judge PatrickE.Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the FifthCircuit. Professor Kesan also holds a Ph.D. in electrical andcomputer engineering and has worked as a research scien-tist at the IBM T.J.Watson Research Center in New York. Heis a registered patent attorney and practiced at the law firmof Pennie & Edmonds LLP in the areas of patent litigationand patent prosecution. In addition, he has publishednumerous scientific papers and obtained several patents inthe U.S. and abroad.

www.law.uiuc.edu

June 25, 3:15 pm – 4:45 pm

“Judging Intellectual Property Cases: Current Issues in theUK and North America”

R T. HON. LORD JUSTICE MUMMERYCOU RT OF A P P E A L , LON DON

HON. JUSTICE MARSHALL ROTHSTEINFE DE R A L COU RT OF A P P E A L , OT TAWA

HON. JUDGE JAME S F. HOLDERMANU S DIS TRI C T C OU RTNORT H E R N DIS TRI C T ILLINOIS , C HI C A GO

H H J U D G E M I C H A E L F Y S H Q C S CPAT E N T S COU N T Y COU RT, LON DON

R T. H O N . LO R D H O F F M A N NLOR D OF A P P E A L IN OR DIN A RY S INC E 19 95HOU S E OF LOR D S , LON DON

June 24, 10:00 am – 11:00 am

K E Y NOT E LEC T U R E

“Current Trends in Intellectual Property Law:A Personal Perspective”

J U D I C I A L P A N E L

L U N C H : 1 : 0 0 P M – 1 : 4 5 P M

E M PLO Y M E N T A N D PAT E N T S1 : 4 5 P M – 3 : 15 P M

“Should Employee Inventors Get Special Deals?”

“How Employee Inventors are Treated in Key Jurisdictions(incl. UK, US, Germany, Japan)”

Chair:David Morrow

Speakers:Timothy Powell, Eric Potter Clarkson, NottinghamDr Paul Leonard, Director, Intellectual Property

Institute, LondonRajesh Sagar, Doctoral AssociateAditya Nagarsheth, Visiting Researcher, Queen Mary

Intellectual Property Institute, London

Discussion

C O F F E E B R E A K : 3 : 15 P M – 3 : 3 0 P M

C O P Y R I G H T A N D I N FO R M AT I O N3 : 3 0 P M – 4 : 4 5 P M

“Database Protection in the EU: The Impact of Recent ECJDecisions”

"Some Impacts of Digital Technology on Copyright Lawand Practice in North America"

Chair:Robert Howell

Speakers:Dr Tanya Aplin, Faculty of Law, King’s

College LondonRonald E. Dimock, Dimock Stratton, Toronto

Discussion

The Symposia are accredited for Continuing Professional Development credit by the Law Society of England and Wales.

T H U R S D AY, J U N E 23 , 20 0 5

RECEPTION: 4 : 3 0 P M – 6 : 0 0 P M

F R I D AY, J U N E 24 , 20 0 5

REGISTRATION & COFFEE: 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM

K E Y N OT E L E C T U R E10 : 0 0 A M – 11 : 0 0 A M

“Current Trends in Intellectual Property Law: A PersonalPerspective”

Chair:David Vaver

Speaker:Rt. Hon. Lord Hoffmann, House of Lords, London

Discussion

C O F F E E B R E A K : 11 : 0 0 A M – 11 : 15 A M

P H A R M A C E U T I C A L S A N D I N T E LL E C T U A L P R O P E R T Y11 : 15 A M – 1 : 0 0 P M

“Pharmaceutical Patents: Their Scope and TheirInfringement”

“Pharmaceutical Patents in the United States: Their Scopeand Their Infringement”

“EU Pharmaceutical Trade Marks: Parallel Imports andRegulatory Issues”

Chair:Ian Buchan & Mike Snodin

Speakers:David Morrow, Smart & Biggar, TorontoProfessor Jay Kesan, Faculty of Law, University

of IllinoisChristopher Stothers, Milbank Tweed Hadley

& McCloy, London

Discussion

J U D I C I A L PA N E L3 : 15 P M – 4 : 4 5 P M

“Judging Intellectual Property Cases: Current Issues in theUK and North America”

Chair:David Vaver

Speakers:Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Mummery, Court of Appeal, LondonHH Judge Michael Fysh QC SC, Patents County

Court, London.Hon. Justice Marshall Rothstein, Federal Court of

Appeal, OttawaHon. Judge James F. Holderman, US District Court,

Northern District Illinois, Chicago

Discussion

C LO S E : 4 : 4 5 P M

D I N N E R AT S T. P E T E R ’ S C O LL E G E H A LL : 7: 3 0 P M

S AT U R D AY, J U N E 25 , 20 0 5

REGISTRATION & COFFEE: 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM

I N T E R N AT I O N A L T R A D E M A R K S , P R OT E C T I O N ,E N FO R C E M E N T A N D C O U N T E R F E I T I N G9 : 3 0 A M – 12 : 3 0 P M

“Going Global: Key Trademark Issues”“Enforcement and Anti-Counterfeit Measures in the EU”“EU Trade Mark Law: Of EU Expansion and Other Things”“Why Use Arbitration for International IntellectualProperty Disputes?"

Chair:Allan Sternstein

Speakers:Michael Manson, Smart & Biggar, VancouverJeffrey Handelman, Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione,

ChicagoStuart Adams, Rouse & Co. International, LondonShireen Peermohamed, Willoughby & Partners/Rouse

& Co. International, LondonCecil Branson QC, B.C., Canada

Discussion

L U N C H B R E A K : 12 : 3 0 P M – 1 : 15 P M

LI T I G AT I O N S T R AT E G I E S1 : 15 P M – 3 : 0 0 P M

“Remedies and Litigation Strategies for InternationalProtection of Intellectual Property Rights”

Chair:Ian Buchan and Timothy Powell

Speakers:Michael Manson, Smart & Biggar, VancouverAllan Sternstein, Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, ChicagoHenry Carr QC, Gray’s Inn, London

Discussion

C O F F E E B R E A K : 3 : 0 0 P M – 3 : 15 P M

( W I T H C O F F E E B R E A K )

The Symposia are accredited for Continuing Professional Development credit by the Law Society of England and Wales.

www.kcl.ac.uk

TA N YA A PLI NLEC T U R E RK ING ’ S COLLEGE LON DON, FA C U LT Y OF L AW

June 24, 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm

“Database Protection in the EU: The Impact of RecentECJ Decisions”

Dr Tanya Aplin is a Lecturer in Law at King’s CollegeLondon. She was formerly a Lecturer at Robinson College,University of Cambridge. She is a graduate of MurdochUniversity, Western Australia and the University of Oxford.Dr Aplin teaches courses on UK copyright law, comparativecopyright law, patent law, breach of confidence and legal reg-ulation of the music industry. Her research is in intellectualproperty law, particularly its relationship to new technolo-gies. Her publications include Multimedia Technology andCopyright Law Protection (Hart, forthcoming); IntellectualProperty: Cases and Materials (with Davis) (OUP, forthcom-ing); Statutes on IT and E-commerce 2nd ed (OUP, 2004)and articles published in the European Intellectual PropertyReview and Intellectual Property Quarterly.

www.iprights.com

S T U A R T A D A M SDE P U T Y C HIE F E X EC U T I V EROU S E & CO. IN T E R N AT ION A L , LON DON

June 25, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm

“Enforcement and Anti-Counterfeit Measures in the EU”

Stuart Adams is a UK qualified solicitor and trade mark agent.

Having originally qualified as a barrister in London, he start-ed his intellectual property career in 1987 at the pharmaceu-tical company, The Wellcome Foundation Ltd (nowGlaxoSmithKline), where he spent much of his time fightingcounterfeits and infringements around the world.

In 1992 he joined the London based solicitors practise, Rouse& Co, a young, specialist firm handling only intellectualproperty work. In April 1997 he set up Rouse & Co.’s Dubaioffice from where he assisted clients in the management andenforcement of their IP rights throughout the Middle East,Africa and the Indian Sub-continent. He moved back to theUK in April 2001.

He is now the Deputy Chief Executive of Rouse & Co.International Limited and is the global head of the firm’senforcement practice. He has managed enforcement actionsin over 70 countries.

I A N B U C H A NPA RT N E RE RI C P OT T E R CL A R K S ON

June 24, 11:15 am – 1:00 pm

“Pharmaceuticals and Intellectual Property"

BSc (Hons), MSc, Registered UK and European TrademarkAttorney, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of PatentAgents, European Patent Attorney, Immediate PastPresident of the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, CouncilMember of the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, Memberof INTA, ECTA and LES.

Ian read biochemistry at Edinburgh University andpharmacology at Hatfield Polytechnic. He worked in researchfor an international healthcare and pharmaceuticalcorporation before moving into trademarks and becomingmanager of their trademarks department.

Ian was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Trade MarkAttorneys in 1995. After a spell in private practice in Scotland,Ian joined Eric Potter Clarkson in 1991 and became a partnerin 1992. He joined the Board of Management in 2000.

Ian has experience of contentious matters before the UKTrade Mark Registry, the Appointed Person (a senior lawyerwho hears appeals from the UK Trade Mark Registry) , theBoards of Appeal at the Community Trade Mark Office , andbefore the High Court and the Court of Appeal in England.Ian also has experience of litigation in other jurisdictions.

www.eric-potter.com

C E C I L B R A N S O N Q CP RI VAT E P R A C T ION E R , A R BI TR ATOR A N DM E DI ATOR

June 25, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm

“Why Use Arbitration for International IntellectualProperty Disputes?"

Cecil (Cec) O.D. Branson, Q.C., Barrister, Solicitor, Arbitratorand Mediator, sole practitioner, 1995–present; ExecutiveDirector, British Columbia International CommercialArbitration Centre, 1993-95; Partner, Edwards Kenny & Bray,1977-93; Partner, Jones Branson Emery and Carfra, 1975-77;Partner, Sullivan Smith and Bigelow, 1962- 75; SessionalLecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria.

Mr. Branson is primarily engaged in practicing as an arbitratorand mediator and as an educator in the field of alternative dis-pute resolution; in addition, he was part of the legal team onbehalf of Mexico in regard to the judicial proceedings concern-ing Metalclad and Chapter 11 of the North American FreeTrade Agreement (NAFTA). His areas of practice have includedcommercial, transportation, product liability, municipal, pro-fessional liability, securities, investment, banking, internationaltrade, sale of goods, and intellectual property law includingdomain name disputes. He is also a Chapter 19 Panelist underthe United States/Canada Free Trade Agreement, dealing withanti-dumping and countervail matters.

www.dimock.com

R O N A L D E . D I M O C KPA RT N E RDIMO CK S TR AT TON

June 24, 3:15 pm – 4:45 pm

"Some Impacts of Digital Technology on Copyright Law andPractice in North America"

Ronald E. Dimock is a partner of the law firm DimockStratton LLP in Toronto, Canada. As a lawyer since 1976, hehas been certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as aSpecialist in Civil Litigation and in IP (Patent, Trade-Marksand Copyright) Law. As a student, he graduated fromQueen's University law school in 1974 after obtaining anengineering degree in 1971. As a lecturer, he teaches a post-graduate level course on IP Remedies and several under-graduate classes in Patents and Copyright. Mr. Dimock hasspoken often and written many articles on IP and is theEditor of the loose-leaf book entitled ‘IP Disputes’ byCarswell-Thomson and the Editor-in-Chief of the FederatedPress – IP Quarterly.

H E N R Y C A R R Q CGR AY ’ S IN N, LON DON

June 25, 1:15 pm – 3:00 pm

“Remedies and Litigation Strategies for InternationalProtection of Intellectual Property Rights”

Henry Carr practises in all fields of intellectual property andinformation technology, with a particular concentration onpatent and trade mark cases and computer contract litiga-tion. He presents cases before the EPO and ECJ, as well asbefore the High Court, Technology and Construction Court,Court of Appeal and House of Lords. He has also appeared injudicial review cases and before the Data Protection andCopyright Tribunals.

www.11southsquare.com

www.brinkshofer.com

J E F F E R Y A . H A N D E LM A NPA RT N E RBRIN K S HOFE R GIL S ON & LION E , C HI C A GO

June 25, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm

“Going Global: Key Trademark Issues”

Jeffery A. Handelman is chair of the Trademark PracticeGroup at Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, one of the largestintellectual property specialty firms in the country withapproximately 150 attorneys.

Within his primary practice area of intellectual property law,Mr. Handelman focuses on trademark, unfair competition,trade dress, dilution, false advertising, copyright, trade secret,and licensing matters. He also is involved in Internet-relatedlitigation and counseling.

Throughout his career, Mr. Handelman has gained extensivelitigation experience in Federal Court and before the U.S.Patent and Trademark Office. He has presented oralarguments in trademark cases before the U.S. Courts ofAppeals for the Fourth Circuit, the Eleventh Circuit, theFederal Circuit, various U.S. District Courts, and theTrademark Trial and Appeal Board.

www.ip-institute.org.uk

PA U L L E O N A R DDIR EC TORIN T E LLEC T U A L P ROP E RT Y INS T I T U T E , LON DON

June 24, 1:45 pm – 3:00 pm

“Should Employee Inventors Get Special Deals?”

Dr Paul Leonard is the Director of the Intellectual PropertyInstitute, London. Paul began his career as a research bio-chemist. He worked for BDH Ltd., Merck Ltd. and theChemical Industries Association, where he developed hisinterest in IP law. He was appointed Director of the IPInstitute in 2000. Paul retains an interest in chemical researchand has served as a member of the RAE Panel for Chemistry.He was also a member of the Chemicals Foresight Panel. Heis a Fellow of the RSA and an Associate of the CharteredInstitute of Patent Agents.

www.smart-biggar.com

M I C H A E L D. M A N S O NPA RT N E RS M A RT & BIGG A R , VA NCOU V E R

June 25, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm

“Going Global: Key Trademark Issues”

June 25, 1:15 pm – 3:00 pm

“Remedies and Litigation Strategies for InternationalProtection of Intellectual Property Rights”

Mike Manson's practice covers all areas of intellectual prop-erty law, primarily in litigation. He has appeared as counselin numerous patent, trademark, industrial design and copy-right proceedings before the Federal Court of Canada, theSupreme Court of Ontario and the British ColumbiaSupreme Court. He also has extensive involvement withtrademark filing and prosecution, both domestic and foreign,trademark oppositions, licensing and opinion work.

Called to the Ontario and British Columbia Bars, Mr.Manson has a B.Sc. (Biology) and Teaching Diploma fromMcGill University and an LL.B. from the University of BritishColumbia. He is a Member of the IP Institute of Canada(IPIC) and is a registered patent and trademark agent. He is apast member of the Patent Examination Board, Chairman ofthe Patent and Trademark Tutorials Committee and theCourt Practice Committee of the IP Section of the CanadianBar Association. He currently serves on the INTA-CPR Panelof Neutrals for Canada for Trademark disputes and theINTAAcademic Recruitment Subcommittee and is chairmanof the IPIC Committee on Patent Agent Training in Canada.

www.smart-biggar.ca

A . D AV I D M O R R O WPA RT N E RS M A RT & BIGG A R , OT TAWA

June 24, 11:15 am – 1:00 pm

“Pharmaceutical Patents: Their Scope and TheirInfringement”

A. David Morrow has extensive involvement with trademarkfiling and prosecution, both domestic and foreign; trademarkoppositions; licensing; and opinions and advice regarding theobtaining, maintenance and validity of all types of intellectu-al property. He has a B.Sc. in Physics from CarletonUniversity and an LL.B. from the University of Ottawa. Amember of the Ontario Bar, he is also a Canadian and U.S.registered patent agent and trademark agent certified by theLaw Society of Upper Canada as a specialist in intellectualproperty (patents, trademarks and copyright) law. Mr.Morrow is a member of the Intellectual Property Institute ofCanada (IPIC), and has been a member of the InternationalTrademark Association (INTA), Association des Juristes pourle Droit de la Vigne et du Vin, the Canadian Bar Association,the American Bar Association, the Computer LawAssociation, Association Littéraire et Artistique, theAdvocates' Society and the American IP Law Association.Currently he serves on the IPIC Trademark Legislation andLitigation Committee.

S H I R E E N P E E R M O H A M E DM A N A GING PA RT N E R , W ILLOU GH BY & PA RT N E R SE X EC U T I V E , ROU S E & C O. IN T E R N AT ION A L , LON DON

June 25, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm

“EU Trade Mark Law: Of EU Expansion and Other Things”

Shireen Peermohamed is Managing Partner of Willoughby &Partners and an Executive of Rouse & Co International. Aftergraduating from Oxford University, she trained at CliffordChance and qualified into the IP department in 1989. Shemoved to Ashurst Morris Crisp in 1994 and joined Willoughby& Partners in 1997. Shireen is experienced in contentious andnon-contentious IP in a wide range of industry areas and hasclients in a number of jurisdictions. She handles trade markinfringement, passing off, copyright and patent infringementproceedings for clients in the personal care,telecommunications and engineering sectors and advisesclients on parallel imports, licensing and merchandisingarrangements. She also advises on the IP aspects of corporateacquisitions and disposals, and financing arrangements.Shireen is also an experienced Supervising Solicitor.

www.iprights.comwww.qmipri.org

A D I T YA N A G A R S H E T HV IS I T ING R E S E A R C H E RQU E E N M A RY IN T E LLEC T U A L P ROP E RT YINS T I T U T E , LON DON

June 24, 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm

“How Employee Inventors are Treated in Key Jurisdictions(incl. UK, US, Germany, Japan)”

Aditya Nagarsheth is an Indian Lawyer whose past experi-ence in India includes contentious and non-contentiouspractice in corporate and commercial areas, particularlyintellectual property issues relating to drug and software sec-tor. After having specialised in Intellectual Property Lawsthrough LLM at Queen Mary, he has been associated withQueen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute,London where he has participated in numerous IP projects.Currently, he is independently consulting for a businessschool, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad ontheir project to increase innovation in India and also pro-viding preliminary consultancy services to Indian businesseswho want to enter European markets.

T I M OT H Y P O W E LLPA RT N E RE RI C P OT T E R CL A R K S ON, NOT T INGH A M

BSc (Hons), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents,European Patent Attorney, Registered UK and European TradeMark Attorney, Member of AIPPI.

Tim Powell graduated in engineering from SouthamptonUniversity in 1986 following four years' concurrent industrialsponsorship by a multinational packaging company. Tim joinedthe patents profession in 1986, qualifying as a Chartered PatentAttorney, European Patent Attorney and Registered Trade MarkAttorney in 1991.

After ten years practising in London, Tim joined Eric PotterPCin 1995 and became a partner in 1997. He represents clientsactive mainly in oilfield equipment, metallurgy, consumergoods, electronic component and process plant technologies.

Tim has travelled extensively, especially in Asia and the USA.He has presented papers on aspects of intellectual property tonumerous universities; to the UK Law Society; and tointernational audiences in the USA, Korea, Japan and Belgiumamong others.

Tim has spent the last two years studying for an LLM inintellectual property litigation at Nottingham Law School.

He is also a Council Member of the European Patents Institute,is active on committees of that Institute and of the UK'sChartered Institute of Patent Agents (CIPA) and is a Member ofthe Patent Agent Litigator's’ Society.

R A J E S H S A G A RDO C TOR A L A S S O CI AT EQU E E N M A RY IN T E LLEC T U A L P ROP E RT YINS T I T U T E , LON DON

June 24, 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm

“How Employee Inventors are Treated in Key Jurisdictions(incl. UK, US, Germany, Japan)”

Rajesh Sagar is pursuing his PhD since 2003 at Queen MaryIntellectual Property Research Institute, UK (QMIPRI) focus-ing on Intellectual Property Law paradigm in India, after suc-cessfully completing his LL.M. from the University ofCambridge. His primary interest areas are Patent Law,Biodiversity Law, Traditional Knowledge protection andintellectual property law in developing countries. He has pre-sented a paper titled “Exclusive privilege law in colonialIndia” in ESRC Conference held in November, 2004 andorganized by QMIPRI. He has also co-authored a reporttitled “Ownership of employee inventions and remuneration:A comparative overview” with Mr. Aditya Nagarsheth. He iscurrently working on various research projects in QMIPRIapart from his doctorate studies.

www.qmipri.orgwww.eric-potter.com

A LL A N S T E R N S T E I NPA RT N E RBRIN K S HOFE R GIL S ON & LION E , C HI C A GO

June 25, 1:15 pm – 3:00 pm

“Remedies and Litigation Strategies for InternationalProtection of Intellectual Property Rights”

Allan J. Sternstein has over 20 years of experience in patent,trademark, copyright, and trade secrets litigation; counseling;and licensing. Before joining the firm, he was Division PatentCounsel for Abbott Laboratories. Allan is a member of theIllinois Trial Bar, has acted as an expert witness and as amediator in patent disputes, and has taught classes, authoredand lectured on patent litigation, patent damages, patent law,patent prosecution, and licensing.

Allan has a B.Sc. (Hons) in Aeronautical and AstronauticalEngineering from the University of Illinois, an M.S.E. fromthe University of Michigan and a J.D. from Loyola University.

www.brinkshofer.com

C H R I S TO P H E R S TOT H E R SA S S O CI AT EMILB A N K T W E E D H A DLE Y & MCCLOY

June 24, 11:15 am – 1:00 pm

“EU Pharmaceutical Trade Marks: Parallel Imports andRegulatory Issues”

Christopher Stothers is an associate in the Intellectual PropertyPractice Group in the London office of Milbank, Tweed,Hadley and McCloy LLP, focusing on intellectual propertyissues, especially patent litigation, trademark litigation, phar-maceutical regulation, European Union and antitrust law.

Prior to joining Milbank, Mr. Stothers received his B.A. in Lawfrom Downing College, Cambridge and his B.C.L. inInternational and Comparative Law from Brasenose College,Oxford. He then qualified as a solicitor with London-based lawfirm Linklaters, including time on secondment to the EuropeanCommission in Brussels, Belgium. He also tutors intellectualproperty law part time at Downing College, Cambridge.

www.milbankeurope.com

M I K E S N O D I N

M A , DP HIL ( OXON ) , FE LLO W OF T H EC H A RT E R E D INS T I T U T E OF PAT E N T A GE N T S ,EU ROP E A N PAT E N T AT TOR N E Y.

Mike read chemistry at Oxford University before obtaining aDPhil in biomimetic co-ordination chemistry from the sameuniversity. After spending a year at the Max-Planck Institutfür Strahlenchemie, as a post-doctoral researcher funded bythe Royal Society, he then worked as a researcher in the fuelcells group of a large precious metals company. Mike joinedEric Potter Clarkson in 1998 and has particular experience inhandling pharmaceutical and chemical inventions for bothUK-based and international clients.

Offices in: Chicago, San Jose, Ann Arbor, Arlington, Indianapolis

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Offices in: Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal

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Office in: Nottingham, U.K.

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FOR INFORMATION ON OUR PROFESSIONAL SPECIALIZATION CERTIFICATE IN INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW:

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