CARDS Regional IPR Project
Seminar EF2: Enforcement Practice, 3-4 June 2004 - Zagreb
DRAFT PROGRAMME
Day 1
08.30
Opening (High Police Officer, or Ministry of Justice, or Ministry of Internal affairs)
08.45
The importance of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) enforcement (key note speech)
09.15
An outline of national IPR legislation; compliance with international obligations; attributions of powers and competences of the various authorities. (Ministry or Patent office)
10.00
Break
10.30
CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT
Mladen Vukmir – Vukmir & Associates
Development of IPR enforcement strategies in Croatia.
Mr. Vukmir is going to address the implementation of the basic principles in the national legislation as well as practical enforcement issues.
11.15
Elena Tanislav, Chief of the IPR department in the General Department of the
Romanian Police.
Speclialized Police Officer will share experiences with investigative techniques; powers needed to investigate IPR matters; collection and processing of intelligence; the advantages of specialism; how to draft a proces verbal".
12.00
Break
14.00
ROLE OF PRIVATE PARTIES
Time | Syndicates companies |
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14.00-14.30 | Canon (International) | Rebecca Towson |
14.30-15.00 | Epson (International) | Bodo Brehdal |
15.00-15.30 | Reebok - local agent | Boris Suskovic |
15.30-16.00 | Lacoste (International) | Catherine Vial |
Break
16.30-17.30
Case Study: in small groups a case will be analyzed; courses of action described – investigation, forming special teams .., and summary claims of charges prepared
Day 2
08.30
CIVIL ENFORCEMENT
Ronald Brohm – Director SNB-REACT
International provisions in EU Enforcement Directive and TRIPS
Foreign expert -Civil lawyer will explain the meaning of the various international provisions. Good practices in EU countries will be put forward as examples.
09.15
Dragos Dumitru, public prosecutor chief of the IPR Department - Romania
Specialized Public Prosecutor will explain the specific issues involved in IPR issues.
Notably; assumption of innocence in IPR measures, notion of intend; witness statements – role of rights owners- , remedies, claims for damages. As well as more technical issues like how to evaluate the police report, prepare an indictment of charges, defend the case in Court …
1000
Break
10.30
Continue Case Study
Presentation by representatives of small groups of the results of the case study
Evaluation by the foreign experts
12.00
LUNCH
14.00
COPYRIGHT ENFORCEMENT
Time |
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1400-1430 | VUKMIR & ASSOCIATES – Business Software Enforcement | Olena Manuilenko |
1430-1500 | APAW – Motion Pictures Association | Zoran Vujasin |
1500-1530 | IFPI |
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15.30
Evaluation and Course of action in Country concerned
Round Table discussion with Management of Police, Public Prosecutor, Lawyers, Rights owners and foreign experts
Identify obstacles in rules, procedures, powers, capacity and propose solutions, improvements
17.00
Closing session
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