The University of Antwerp and the Center for Intellectual Property Rights (CIR) of the University of Leuven present a conference on the EU Patent Package Oct. 17, 2014, at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (Academy Palace, Hertogsstraat 1, 1000 Brussels).
The objective of this conference is to go beyond a pure descriptive analysis of the different components of the Patent Package. On the one hand, we include an economic, legal, governance, university and industry perspective with respect to the patent package. On the other hand, we put the patent package in the broader context of ongoing patent reforms in the US and Japan and the general trend of establishing specialized IP courts throughout the world. In doing this, we hope to derive interesting lessons from “governance experiments” in the different jurisdictions and to provide useful, interdisciplinary insights for the further implementation of the EU patent package and the operation of the unitary patent and UPC.
Source: IP and IT Conferences. I wasn’t able to find a conference website or contact information, but it is listed on the Royal Flemish Academy’s calendar. mw
