Since our last announcement about the NUJS Max Planck IP Workshop, we have added a number of new speakers and moderators which promises to make this dialogue a fabulous one! Please find the new schedule annexed below.
So hurry and shoot an email to me at [email protected] to register. Just 3 more days left!
And just in case the registration fee seems to be a problem, do drop in a line- we will consider waiver in appropriate cases.
Day 1- November 19, 2010
I. REGISTRATION-9.00 am to 9.30 am
II. INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME– Prof. Shamnad Basheer, MHRD Chair in IP Law, NUJS, Kolkata & Dr. Henning Grosse Ruse – Khan, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, (9.30 am to 9.45 am)
III. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS– Mr. Felix Kahle, Representative, Max Planck Society, India (9.45 am to 10.00 am)
IV. KEYNOTE ADDRESS –PH Kurian, Controller General of Patents and Trademarks (10.00 am to 10.30 am)
V. THEMES
1. INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND NON MAINSTREAM INCENTIVES
This session will explore the key challenges in innovation and technology transfer. It will also discuss non-mainstream incentives for innovation such as utility models and liability rules.
SPEAKERS
Duration of the Panel: 10:30 am to 1.30 pm
i. “Intellectual Property Protection, Innovation Policy and Academic Technology Transfer– The German Experience” (Ms. Andrea Wechsler, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law)
ii. “Innovation and Technology Transfer at European Universities: Lessons Learnt” (Ms. Agnieszka Kupzok, Doctoral Candidate, International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation)
iii. “Utility Models Instead of Patents” (Mr. P.H. Nishantha Sampath (Doctoral Candidate, Munich Intellectual Property Law Center)
iv. “Recalibrating Pharmaceutical Innovation and IP policy” (Prof. Shamnad Basheer, MHRD Chair in IP Law, NUJS, Kolkata)
Moderator: Mr. Sudhir Ravindran, Founding Partner, Altacit Global
2. COMPETITION LAW AND INNOVATION POLICY
A carefully calibrated competition policy ensures that the markets remain healthy and open to new ideas and entrants. Europe has traditionally been much more open to the deployment of competition law to open up the “innovation” space. Indeed, it has used instruments such as the essential facilities doctrine to curb the foreclosure of secondary markets using IP. Given that India is coming to grips with a new competition regime now, it becomes important to ask as to what lessons Indian could learn from Europe in this regard.
SPEAKERS
Duration of the Panel : 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
i. “IP, Competition and Innovation Related Agreements”(Mr. Mark Oliver Mackenrodt, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law)
ii. “IP, Competition and Refusals to Licence” (Dr. Mathias Lamping, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law)
iii. “Competition Law and Innovation/Development Dilemma in Developing Countries” (Dr. Mor Bakhoum, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law)
iv. “Competition Law and IP: The Indian Interface”, (Mr.Rahul Singh, Associate Director, Legal Education Directorate)
Moderator : Justice Pinaki Ghosh, Judge, Calcutta High Court
Day 2- November 20, 2010
3. COPYRIGHT, CREATIVITY AND DEVELOPMENT
This session aims to explore the nexus between copyrights and creativity, particularly in the context of the internet and social networks. It will also attempt to place the debates within a “developmental” framework.
SPEAKERS
Duration of the Panel: 10.00 am to 1.30 pm
i. “Prosumers and Copyright Law” (Prof. Maximilian Haedicke, Chair Professor of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Albert-Ludwigs University,Freiburg)
ii. “Copyright Law in India: Challenges for Development” (Prof. NS Gopalakrishnan, MHRD Chair in IP Law, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin)
iii. “The Recent Copyright Amendments: An Inside Perspective” (Mr. GR Raghavendar, Registrar of Copyrights, Copyright Board, India)
iv. “Social Networks and Copyright Issues” (Mr. Rajendra Kumar, Partner, Kumaran and Sagar)
v. “Copyright Law in the Digital Era” (Mr. Ranjan Negi, Partner, Amarchand Mangaldas and Suresh A. Shroff & Co., New Delhi)
Moderator: Prof. Anirban Majumdar, NUJS
4. INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INNOVATION POLICY
Innovation cannot be discussed without taking into account the dynamics of international trade. Indeed, optimal innovation policy cannot be divorced from the realities of the global market and the possibilities that it throws up for internationalization of policies.
SPEAKERS
Duration of the Panel: 2.45 pm to 4.45 pm
i. “TRIPS, FTA’s and BITs: Impact on Domestic IP- and Innovation Strategies in Developing Countries” ( Dr. Henning Grosse Ruse – Khan, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law)
ii. “TRIPS and Indian Patent Law” (Prof. VK Unni, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy and Management, IIM, Calcutta)
iii. “Indian IP and International Trade” (Mr. Madhukar Sinha, Center for WTO Studies, Delhi).
iv. “Redesigning the Global Innovation Architecture for the 21st century: A Critical Approach to the Notion of Minimum Mandatory Limitations and Exceptions to IP Law in the Post-TRIPS world” (Mr. Yogesh Pai, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, NLU, Jodhpur.)
Moderator: Mr. CH Unnikrishnan, Mint
