Seminar: Industrial Property Rights in International Business

Seminar at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Munich on 1 October 2010: The legal and fiscal principles of industrial property rights – from the idea to the commercial exploitation – will be presented on the basis of concrete examples.

INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

Trademarks, patents and other industrial property rights are material factors of success for a company. Trademarks lend a face to products and facilitate marketing. Patents protect the market position and the technical competitiveness of a company – especially abroad.

 

Topics:

• overview of the different types of industrial property rights (patents, utility models, trademarks, registered designs)
• from the idea to the grant of an industrial property right
  a) protection requirements and formal proceedings
  b) strategies for national, regional and international protection of industrial property
• industrial property rights as asset value
  a) accounting and tax aspects
  b) optimisation of costs and benefits – portfolio management
• enforcement and defence of industrial property rights
  a) extra-judicial proceeding
  b) preliminary injunction
  c) infringement suit
  d) offence and defence at trade fairs and abroad

 

Speakers:

• Dr. Markus Kieser, attorney LL.M.
• Birgit Maneth, attorney LL.M., specialist in industrial property rights

 

 

Date/Place of Application:

Date: 1 October 2010, 9 a.m. – 12 a.m.
Venue: Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) in Munich, Max-Joseph-Strasse 2
Attendance fee: EUR 100 + VAT
Application via the Chamber of Industry and Commerce IHK
Contact Chamber of Industry and Commerce: Dagmar Lipp lipp@muenchen.ihk.de, phone: +49 89 5116-291, fax: +49 89 5116-471

 

 

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