IPR University Center Immateriaalioikeusinstituutti

18.00 – 20.00 Registration
Conference Hotel Rantapuisto

19.00 – 21.00 Get-together
Conference Hotel Rantapuisto

8.00 – 9.00 Registration

9.00 – 9.15 Introduction
Professor Niklas Bruun, IPR University Center

9.15 – 10.15
Differentiated Protection Based on Unitary Ground - A Feasible Approach?
Professor Annette Kur, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property Law

10.15 – 11.00
Functional and Economic Criteria as a Base for Systematization of IP Law?
Professor Thomas Riis, Copenhagen Business School

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee

11.30 – 12.15
The Changing Purposes of IP Protection: A Basis For Convergence?
Professor Graeme Dinwoodie, Chicago-Kent College of Law

12.15 – 13.00
Evolving New Markets for IP and its Implications
Dr Ilkka Rahnasto, Vice President, IPR, Nokia Corporation

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 -18.00
Parallel Working Groups and Papers Submitted by the Participants

TRACK I Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
Chaired by Professor Diethelm Klippel, University of Bayreuth

Patent litigation - When Useless?
Martti Castrén, University of Helsinki

Theoretical Perspectives of a One Right System – A Kantian Approach
Michael Goldhammer, University of Bayreuth

History of Patent Law and Legislation in West Germany since 1945
Martin Otto, University of Bayreuth

Intellectual Property in the GDR
Matthias Wiessner, University of Bayreuth

TRACK II Dynamics in IP – Markets, Technology and IP Infrastructure
Chaired by Professor Josef Drexl, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property

“One Right” - System for (Sports) Event Organisers – A Mission for IP?
Anette Alén, Institute of International Economic Law (KATTI)

Does One Size Really Fit All?
Scott Erickson, Ithaca College

Evolution of the Communities' Approach to the Protection of Georaphical Indications
Ewa Hartman, Bournemouth University

Trolls in an Anti-Common Tragedy or Patent Abuse in a Standardized Environment
Rick James, University of London

19.00 Transportation to the dinner
The buses leave from Rantapuisto and drive via Hotel Vuoranta.

19.30 – Dinner
Sipuli Restaurant, Kanavaranta 7, Helsinki

9.00 – 10.00
Proposal for a Unified Regime of Copyright Exclusive Rights
Professor Andrew Christie, University of Melbourne

10.00 – 10.45
Institutional Impediments to a One Right System
Professsor Antonina Bakardjieva, University of Stockholm

10.45 – 11.10 Coffee

11.10 – 12.00
Unfair Competition and a One Right System
Professor Ansgar Ohly, University of Bayreuth

12.00 – 13.00
How “Transformative Use” is Transforming the Law
Professor Michael Landau, Georgia State University

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.00
The Role and Responsibility of the IP-Community
Professor Marianne Levin, University of Stockholm

15.00 – 17.00
Parallel Working Groups and Papers Submitted by Participants

TRACK III Ownership and Limitations
Chaired by Professor Andrew Christie, University of Melbourne

One Right System – Different Purposes
Reinier Bakels, Maastricht University

The Theft of Trade Secrets: Evidence from the Economic Espionage Act (EEA)
Nicola Searle, CRIEEF, University of St Andrews

TRACK IV Dynamics in IP – New Approaches
Chaired by Professor Severine Dusollier, University of Namur (TBC)

Scope of Protection for a Utility Model
Pia Björkwall, Hanken - Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration

Collecting Societies and Creative Commons Licencing
Herkko Hietanen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology

17.00 Closing of the Conference