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Substantive Patent Law Harmonization
Colloquium
5-7 June 2024
European Patent Office
Munich
– Isar Building
Organized by:
FICPI, AIPPI and AIPLA
5 June 2024
19:00
Reception
European Patent Office
EPO ISAR Foyer, outside Room 102 (
Munich)
Day 1: 6 June 2024
09:00 - 09:20
Plenary Session
Opening (MC –
Shoichi Okuyama, President of AIPPI)
Steve Rowan,
Vice
-
President, European Patent Office
Roberto Pistolesi, President, FICPI
Salvatore Anastasi,
First Vice President,
AIPLA
09:20
Outline of the Program
(Shoichi
Okuyama)
09:25 - 09:50
Introduction
–
Julyan Elbro, UKIPO (Chair of Group B+ sub
-group on
SPLH)
9:50 - 10:30
Group
Discussion 1
-
Grace Period
(Moderator: Robert Watson, FICPI)
10:30 -
11:00 Coffee
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11:00 - 11:35
Group
Discussion 2
-
Prior User Rights
(Moderator: Karsten Koeniger,
AIPPI)
11:35 -12:05
Group
Discussion 3
-
Conflicting Applications
(Moderator, Patrick Coyne
AIPLA)
12:05 -12:20
Introduction of workshops (
Jérôme Collin, FICPI
)
12:20 -13:50
Lunch
Breakout into two streams
of workshops
Grace Period Stream
Prior User Right Stream
13:50 - 15:20
Pros and Cons of a
Declaration for Grace
Period
David Kappos (AIPPI) &
Kay Konishi (JPAA)
Derivation
John Brown (epi)
&
Jérôme Collin (FICPI)
15:20 - 15:50
Break
15:50 - 17:20
Timing of Grace Period
Ray Farrell (AIPLA) &
Yelena Morozovo (AIPLA)
Scope of Prior User Rights
Daniel Maier (BusinessEurope) &
Hendrik Meier
17:20
Adjourn for the day
(Moderators and reporters
for panel discussions and
workshops
:
prepare a
discussion draft for the
plenary on Day 2.
)
19:00
Dinner
at Wirtshaus in der Au
(Lilienstrasse
51)
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Day 2: 7 June 2024
Chair:
Michael Caine (FICPI)
Vice Chair:
Ralph Nack (AIPPI)
Reporter:
R.
Danny Hunting
t
on (FICPI)
09:00 - 09:40
Reports from Workshops
09:40 - 10:30
Plenary Session for the Preparation of the
Joint Statement
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 12:00
Plenary Session for the Preparation of the Joint
Statement
12:00
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