The Remedies in Intellectual Property Law: Do We Need Common European Principles?
European Law Institute (ELI) Annual Conference and Meeting 2019
Intellectual Property Law Special Interest Group’s panel on
The Remedies in Intellectual Property Law: Do We Need Common European Principles?
Agenda
Presentation
Remedies, such as injunctions, damages, or claims for information, are increasingly of relevance in the policy debates in the intellectual property law. Intellectual property rights are believed to incentivize creation and dissemination of new technical solutions and help to disclose their working to the public in exchange for limited exclusivity. Many books and articles have been written about different aspects of the intellectual property system. Surprisingly, however, despite its high practical relevance, the issue of drafting, granting and enforcing remedies remains less clear in the comparative legal literature. This is in stark contrast with their policy relevance. Remedies are increasingly becoming important policy levers when adjusting the intellectual property system to quickly changing industries and business practices.
This Intellectual Property Law Special Interest Group’s (IP Law SIG) meeting aims at giving IP Law SIG a visibility in the IP academia, by involving leading experts and judges, thereby attracting publicity and new members; starting a tradition of in-depth scholarly exchange at the IP SIG events; and, potentially, launching a pan-European project on the remedies in the European intellectual property law, as a flagship initiative for the coming years.
Inspired by a project initiated in 2017 by Martin Husovec and Jorge Contreras, this event follows up on a workshop organised at Tilburg University, which took place in June 2018. The workshop – entitled Mapping Flexibilities for Injunctive Relief in Patent Law: What Can the Member States of the European Union and the United States Learn From Each Other? – aimed at creating a platform for a structured discussion about the flexibility and tailoring of injunctive relief in patent law. Given the success of the workshop, the participants decided to commit their time to a book project (likely forthcoming with the Cambridge University Press) which should further deepen the discussion. At the Vienna event, some of the authors would present the preliminary findings. This debate will be at the same time used as a starting point for a broader debate about remedies in European IP law in order to answer the question whether a common set of principles would be a way forward for the European harmonization.
Program
| 09:00–09:10 |
Welcoming remarks (Dr. Husovec, Dr. Myska, Prof. Contreras [remote]) |
| 09:10–10:40 |
Could Principles for IPR Remedies be Useful? This session will ask panelists to reflect on following questions (5-7 minutes each): (1) Do you think that developing the common principles for the IP remedies could be a useful exercise? Why? (2) Do you think the principles could improve adjudication of IP rights in practice? How? (3) What other benefits could such principles bring? Do we have some precedents? (4) Should these principles be regional or international?
Chair: Dr. Husovec Panelists: Prof. Golden, Prof. Strowel, Prof. Sikorski, Prof. Hoyng, Prof. Fischman-Afori, Prof. Siebrasse |
| 10:40 –11:15 | Break |
| 11:15 – 12:40 |
Do We Need Common European Principles for IPR Remedies? This session will ask panelists to reflect on following questions (5-7 minutes each): (1) Should these principles be horizontal across all IP rights? Why yes/not? Does different justification of rights matter? (2) How much should the principles be based on the existing national law/practice (and EU law) and how much should they try to go beyond? (3) How would you suggest to organize the work related to the development of such principles? (4) Do you think that splitting the work-streams into injunctions, damages, unjust enrichment would be too broad or narrow? (5) Who – in terms of expertize & persons – should be in charge of10 drafting sections of such principles? Why?
Chair: Dr. Myska Panelists: Prof. Cogo, Prof. Targosz, Prof. Gislard, Prof. Hofmann, Prof. Wiebe, Prof. Picht [remote] |
| 12:40–14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 – 15:40 |
Book discussion: national chapters & synthesis The session will be dedicated to the discussion of national chapters and the first draft of the synthesis report for the book “Injunctions in Patent Law: Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Flexibility and Tailoring” (CUP 2020, forthcoming). Each national chapter will present 5 minutes of highlights, followed by an open debate of the common findings. The drafts will be circulated with the participants before the event.
Chair: Prof. Contreras [remote], Dr. Husovec Panelists: Prof. Cogo, Prof. Golden, Prof. Gislard, Prof. Fischman-Afori, Prof. Hoyng, Prof. Picht [remote], Prof. Sikorski, Prof. Siebrasse, Prof. Targosz |
| 15:40 – 16:00 | Break |
| 16:00 – 17:40 |
Workshop on injunctive relief: contrasting approaches Following upon the book project debate, the participants will discuss solutions to five brief case studies, and how application of IPR principles on remedies, in this case injunctions, could help in resolving them.
Chair: Ms. van Dongen Speakers: all SIG participants |
| 17:40 – 18:00: | Conclusions |
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Location
Juridicum, Schottenbastei 10-16, 1010 Wien