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Nordic Network Meeting 2010 -" New Interfaces in IPR"

The traditional Network Meeting (nätverksmöte) of Nordic researchers of IPR issues will be held in Helsinki on April 15-16, 2010. This year the theme is "New Interfaces in IPR - the Nordic Perspective". The language of the network meeting is English.

Programme

The 20-30-minute presentations of doctoral students are followed by discussion and comments.

Thursday 15 April 2010

9.00 – 12.00 Arrival at Conference and Cultural Centre Sofia
Check-in, registration

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch at the Conference and Cultural Centre Sofia

13.30 Software Patents v. OSS: A New Hybrid Software Development Model
Rosa Ballardini, INNOCENT (Hanken, Finland)

14.30 “Reverse Engineering” – Or the Question Whether We Have to Rethink the Boundaries of Intellectual Property Protection
Florian Schweyer, University of Bayreuth

15.30 Coffee

16.00 The Concept of Invention in Patent Law
Torger Kielland, University of Bergen
POSTPONED

16.00 Bridgeport Music v. Dimension Films (USA), Metall auf Metall (Germany)
and Digital Sound Sampling
Simon Apel, University of Bayreuth

17.00 Conclusion of the Meeting
18.00 - 18.45 Bus transportation to Nokia premises (Espoo)

19.00 Lecture and Dinner at Nokia
21.00 Bus transportation back to the Conference Centre Sofia

Friday 16 April 2010

9.00 In Favor of the Convention on Biological Diversity: Patent or Breeder´s Right?
Abeba Gebreselassie, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus

9.50 Liability for Trademark Infringement for Internet Service Providers
Katja Weckström, University of Turku

10.40 Coffee

10.55 Survey Evidence in Trademark and Marketing Practice Litigation
Monica Viken, BI, Norway and Copenhagen Business School

11.45 Climate Change and Intellectual Property: The Context of Technology Transfer
Mohammed Moniral Azam, University of Stockholm

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 Opening of the Conference Global IP and New Interfaces

Graduate schools
University of Bayreuth, Germany:
DFG Graduate School n. 1148 "Intellectual Property and the Public Domain".
IPR University Center, Finland (University of Helsinki, Hanken School of Economics, University of Turku):
"Innovation Incentives and the Regulatory Infrastructure" (INNOCENT)