LIVE International IP Enforcement Summit
The summit will address the growing impact of intellectual property rights infringement in our society and the challenges facing enforcement authorities.
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Welcome to the IP Enforcement Summit 2017
Tune in to watch #IPSummit17 live from Berlin on Thursday 22nd - Friday 23rd June from 9:00am (CEST)
Berlin, 22 and 23 June 2017
Following the first International IP Enforcement Summit held in London in 2014, the second edition of this international gathering will bring together once again key European and international decision makers, enforcement agencies, multinational companies, consumer representatives and businesses.
This edition will look in particular at new trends and technologies, as well as explore alternative enforcement techniques relevant to the online environment.
The programme:
The 2017 programme is organised into three main panel discussions:
Panel I. Current online trends and challenges
This panel will look at the evolution of the approach to IP enforcement: from targeting individual consumers to the so-called ‘follow the money approach’ (which aims to reach large-scale commercial organisations) or to learning from consumer trends. The panel will hold three sessions, each dealing with a different approach to enforcement: awareness and education, tools and strategies, and the impact of technology in business models.Panel II. Looking ahead
The second panel will present new ways to reconcile the interests of consumers with those of IP rights holders. In this panel, enforcers will share their experiences of dealing with organised crime. Other topics of discussion will include new technologies, to ensure the legitimate dissemination of content and distribution of goods, new ways of payment and remuneration methods for online transactions of IP-protected goods.Panel III. International cooperation
The summit will close with interventions by high-level representatives from ministries and international organisations, who will share their experiences of international IPR enforcement from an institutional point of view. The speakers will also address the need for better international cooperation and the sharing of operational best practices, both in policy making and enforcement.Join us on Twitter
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Summit Hosts & Keynote Speakers:
The German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection is responsible for legislation in the area of intellectual property protection, which includes patent law, utility model law, design law, trade mark law, copyright and the law against unfair competition. It is equally concerned with matters of IP enforcement and supports the coordination and cooperation across the IP community to tackle counterfeiting and product piracy.
The European Commission has responsibility for ensuring that appropriate mechanisms of protection and enforcement of IP rights are in place in the EU. It also works to improve their protection and enforcement in third countries.
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) is the EU agency responsible for managing the EU trade mark and the registered Community design. In 2012, the Office was given the responsibility for the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights which works to support the protection and enforcement of IP rights.
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Agenda - Thursday 22 June 2017 (Day 1)
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09:00 OPENING ADDRESSES
Conny Czymoch - Moderator
Gerd Billen - Secretary of State, German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection
Elżbieta Bienkowska - Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission
António Campinos - António Campinos, Executive Director, European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
09:50 POINT OF VIEW FROM THE CIVIL SOCIETY/CONSUMERS
Key points on how IPR and its enforcement affect consumers
Klaus Müller - Executive Director, Federation of German Consumer Organisations, Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V. (VZBV)
10:10 POINT OF VIEW FROM THE INDUSTRY
Highlights of the most urgent issues the industry is facing in the realm of IPR and its enforcement.
Volker Bartels - Head of German Anti-Counterfeiting Association Aktionskreis gegen Produkt- und Markenpiraterie e. V. (APM)
10:30 STRATEGIC OVERVIEWS - CHALLENGING ONLINE IP INFRINGEMENTS
Experiences and views from institutions on how IP enforcement is being dealt with from an EU perspective.Pavel Svoboda - Chair JURI Committee, European Parliament
Paul Maier - Director, European Observatory on Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights, EUIPO
Antti Peltomäki - Deputy Director General, Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission
11:30 Coffee Break 12:00 Panel I: Current online trends and challenges
The aim is to understand the evolution of IP enforcement from targeting final individual consumers to the follow the money approach aiming at reaching large scale commercial organisations, and to learn from better consumption trends.
Henrik Rasmusson - National Prosecution Department, International Prosecution Office in Stockholm, Sweden
Meena Sayal - Director, Global Brand Protection, Unilever
Jari Liukku - Head of the European Organised Crime Centre, Europol Operations Department, Europol
Jaymeen Patel - Head of Brussels Office, Corporate Affairs LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton
Q&A
13:05 Introduction to the breakout sessions
Christoph Ernst - German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection
13:15 Lunch
14:50 Session I
Awareness and education to respect IP
Objective of Session I: To explore how educating consumers can address part of IPR enforcement challengesChair: Andreas Beckmann - Deputy Secretary-General, European Schools
IP education tools: Irini Stamatoudi - Director, Hellenic Copyright Organisation
Brian Monks - Global Head of Global Security & Brand Protection, UL
Emilie Passemard - Director of Rights Protection, Hadopi
Q&A
15:50 Coffee Break
16:20 Chairs’ summing up and discussion
16:45 European Decision makers
Objective of European Decision makers: to allow key persons of the acting and future presidency as well as the Commission to lay out their policy proposals.
Owen Bonnici * - Minister for Justice, Culture and Local Government, Malta (acting EU Presidency)
Urmas Reinsalu - Minister of Justice, Estonia (future EU Presidency)Q&A
17:45 Moderator Conny Czymoch - Closing of first day
18:00 End of Day 1
Agenda - Friday 23 June 2017 (Day 2)
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09:00 Zhao Meisheng – Deputy Director-General; Patent Affairs Administration Department (SIPO)
09:50 Point of view from the civil society/consumers
Klaus Müller - Executive Director, Federation of German consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V. (VZBV)
09:20 Strategic Overviews
Objective of the strategic overviews: to present the transversal views of EU, international representatives and the private sector on how to deal with civil societies’, consumers’ and right holders’ expectations.
Joe McNamee - Executive Director, European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Rolf Alter - Director, Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development (OECD)
Therese Comodini Cachia - Member of the European Parliament
Gert Würtenberger - President of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR)
10:20 Coffee Break
10:50 Panel II: Looking ahead: Fighting organised crime and reconciling business and consumers’ expectations.
Objective of Panel II: to identify opportunities for reconciling consumers’ interests and right-holders’ concerns.
Siegmar Reiss - Head of Sector, Counterfeit Goods, European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF)
Agustin Reyna - Digital Team Leader, The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC)
Julia Reda - Member of the European Parliament
Matthew J. Bassiur - Vice-President, Head of Global IP Enforcement, Alibaba Group
Q&A
11:50 Introduction to the breakout sessions: Conny Czymoch
12:00 Breakout sessions
12:00 Session IV Dealing with organised crime
Objective of Session IV: to present enforcers’ experiences.
Chair: Cindy J. Smith - Director, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)
The enforcer’s perspective: Joseph Chetcuti - Director General of Maltese Customs
Dietmar Moellmann - Head of the Unit Prohibitions and restrictions in the Central Customs Investigation Office and Chairman of the Customs Cooperation Working Party (CCWP) –Project group Customs against internet crime
Sven de Vries – Financial Crime Investigator (FIOD)
Q&A
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Chairs’ summing up and discussion
14:45 Panel III - International cooperation
Objective of Panel III: to share experiences on IPR enforcement at international level from the institutional point of view.
Shira Perlmutter - Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs, US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
María Martin-Prat - Director, Directorate General for Trade, European Commission
Roraima Andriani - Director for Organized and Emerging Crime, Interpol
Leigh Winchell - Deputy Director, Enforcement Sub- Directorate, World Customs Organization ( WCO)
Eun Joo Min – Senior Legal Counsellor, Building Respect for IP Division, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Patricia García-Escudero Márquez - Chair of Management Board, EUIPO and Director General of the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (OEPM)
16:15 Key note closing
Objective of Key note closing: to provide a concise summary of some of the event’s key findings and to give an outlook on the way forward
Christoph Ernst - Head of Division III B, German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection
Andrea Di Carlo - Deputy Director, European Observatory on Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights, EUIPO
Michael Koenig - acting Head of Unit, Intellectual Property and Fight Against Counterfeiting, DG Growth, European Commission
16:30 End of Day 2
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2Gerd Billen
Secretary of State, German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection
Opening Address3Antti Peltomäki
Deputy Director General, Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission
Opening Address4António Campinos
Executive Director, European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
Opening Address5Klaus Müller
Executive Director, Federation of German Consumer Organisations, Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V. (VZBV)
POINT OF VIEW FROM THE CIVIL SOCIETY/CONSUMERS7Volker Bartels
Head of German Anti-Counterfeiting Association Aktionskreis gegen Produkt- und Markenpiraterie e. V. (APM)
POINT OF VIEW FROM THE INDUSTRYDownload this presentation [PDF] »
8Pavel Svoboda
Chair JURI Committee, European Parliament
STRATEGIC OVERVIEWS - CHALLENGING ONLINE IP INFRINGEMENTS9Paul Maier
Director, European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights, EUIPO
STRATEGIC OVERVIEWS - CHALLENGING ONLINE IP INFRINGEMENTS10Antti Peltomäki
Deputy Director General, Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission
STRATEGIC OVERVIEWS - CHALLENGING ONLINE IP INFRINGEMENTS11Henrik Rasmusson
National Prosecution Department, International Prosecution Office in Stockholm, Sweden
PANEL I: CURRENT ONLINE TRENDS AND CHALLENGESDownload this presentation [PDF] »
12Meena Sayal
Director, Global Brand Protection, Unilever
PANEL I: CURRENT ONLINE TRENDS AND CHALLENGES13Jari Liukku
Head of the European Organised Crime Centre, Europol Operations Department, Europol
PANEL I: CURRENT ONLINE TRENDS AND CHALLENGESDownload this presentation [PDF] »
14Jaymeen Patel
Head of Brussels Office, Corporate Affairs LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton
PANEL I: CURRENT ONLINE TRENDS AND CHALLENGES16Christoph Ernst
Head of Division III B, German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection
INTRODUCTION TO THE BREAKOUT SESSIONS17Breakout Session Summing Up and Discussion
Featuring:
Andreas Beckmann, Deputy Secretary-General, European Schools
Richard Yung, President of the French anti-counterfeiting committee
Peter Szyszko, Founder, whiteBULLET21Zhao Meisheng
Deputy Director-General, Patent Affairs Administration Department (SIPO)
OPENING ADDRESS23Gert Würtenberger
President of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR)
STRATEGIC OVERVIEWS24Rolf Alter
Director, Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
STRATEGIC OVERVIEWS25Leif Villadsen
Senior Programme Officer, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)
CHAIRS’ SUMMING UP AND DISCUSSION27Piotr Stryszowski
Senior Economist at the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate (OECD)
CHAIRS’ SUMMING UP AND DISCUSSION28Zeeger Vink
IP Director, Maus Frères International Services and Secretary, International Trademark Association (INTA)
CHAIRS’ SUMMING UP AND DISCUSSION29Agustin Reyna
Digital Team Leader, The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC)
PANEL II: LOOKING AHEAD: FIGHTING ORGANISED CRIME AND RECONCILING BUSINESS AND CONSUMERS’ EXPECTATIONS30Siegmar Reiss
Head of Sector, Counterfeit Goods, European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF)
PANEL II: LOOKING AHEAD: FIGHTING ORGANISED CRIME AND RECONCILING BUSINESS AND CONSUMERS’ EXPECTATIONS31Julia Reda
Member of the European Parliament
PANEL II: LOOKING AHEAD: FIGHTING ORGANISED CRIME AND RECONCILING BUSINESS AND CONSUMERS’ EXPECTATIONS32Matthew J. Bassiur
Vice-President, Head of Global IP Enforcement, Alibaba Group
PANEL II: LOOKING AHEAD: FIGHTING ORGANISED CRIME AND RECONCILING BUSINESS AND CONSUMERS’ EXPECTATIONS33QA Panel II Session Day2
PANEL II: LOOKING AHEAD: FIGHTING ORGANISED CRIME AND RECONCILING BUSINESS AND CONSUMERS’ EXPECTATIONS34Shira Perlmutter
Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs, US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
PANEL III - INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION35Maria Martin-Prat
Director, Directorate General for Trade, European Commission
PANEL III - INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION36Roraima Andriani
Director for Organized and Emerging Crime, Interpol
PANEL III - INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION37Leigh Winchell,
Deputy Director, Enforcement Sub- Directorate, World Customs Organization ( WCO)
PANEL III - INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION38Patricia García-Escudero Márquez
Chair of Management Board, EUIPO and Director General of the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (OEPM)40Christoph Ernst
Head of Division III B, German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection
KEY NOTE CLOSING41Andrea Di Carlo
Deputy Director, European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights, EUIPO
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