INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY LAW
Provisional calendar
The calendar is merely guidance for students and can be altered. All modifications will be made
available on the website of FDUNL.
Classes: Tuesday (15h00-17h45) & Wednesday (13h30-14h45)
Date
15/9 – Class 1,2
Summary
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Presentation
Pan-European Seal Programme (OHIM, EPO)
Method and evaluation
Sources of Industrial Property Law
Object of Industrial Property Law
Legal nature
16/9 – Class 3
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Attribution of industrial property rights
Provisional protection
22/9 & 23/9 –
Classes 4, 5, 6
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Contracts in general: transfer and license
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Exhaustion of industrial property rights
Industrial property rights and competition law
Observations/Materials
Pan-European Seal
Programme
https://oami.europa.eu/knowled
ge/course/view.php?id=1851
OHIM ACADEMY
Introduction to Intellectual Property
(Part I & II)
Prof. A. Kamperman Sanders
Analysis of a licensing contract
(previously made available to
students)
Discussion of EU case law:
Preparation/presentation of the
following cases by students:
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TJCE, C-15/74,
Centralfarm/Sterling Drug,
31/10/1974
TJCE, C-10/89, Hag II,
17/10/1990
C-355/96, Silhouette, de
16/7/1998
C-173/98, Sebago, de
1/7/1999
Patents:
29/9 & 30/9 –
Classes 7, 8, 9
6/10 & 7/10 –
Class 10, 11, 12
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Concept of invention
Objet of a patent right
Criteria of patentability: novelty, originality,
industrial application
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Software patentability (discussion)
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Discussion based on the legal opinion of:
Luís Couto Gonçalves, A patente de
invenção e a noção de técnica,
Estudos comemorativos dos 10 anos
da Faculdade de Direito da
Universidade Nova de Lisboa /
coordenação Diogo Freitas do
Amaral, Carlos Ferreira de Almeida,
Marta Tavares de Almeida, Coimbra,
Almedina, 2008, pp. 289-322
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13/10 & 14/10 –
Class 13, 14, 15
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Ownership: invention in the context of labour
contracts
Application of article 59 rules to inventions and
also designs & models
Analysis of a case about university
patents: case 1 – Website
Invalidity and extinction of patents.
Compulsory licenses.
Utility models
Patent law and pharmaceutical law
 MA and patent law
 Arbitration of patent disputes
20/10 & 21/10 –
Class 13, 14, 15
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(INPI)
National protection – procedure
Practical guidelines concerning applications for
patents: inventions of product/process, scope
of protection and application of the doctrine of
equivalents
Patent law and pharmaceutical law (continuation)
 MA and patent law
 Arbitration of patent disputes
27/10 & 28/10
(INPI)
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3/11 & 4/11 –
Class 16, 17, 18
10/11 & 11/11 –
Class 19, 20, 21
Supplementary protection certificates for
medicinal and pharmaceutical products
Basic concepts
Criteria of protection
Attribution of the right, content and limits
Priority, registration
EU designs and models; international
registration
Research and presentation by students
OHIM ACADEMY
Introduction to Community Designs
Henning Hartwig
EU case law analysis
Trademarks
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How to get a European patent
EPO
International protection: European Patent
Convention (EPC), Patent Cooperation Treaty
(PCT)
PPH - Patent Prosecution Highway
European Union Patent
Designs and models
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OHIM ACADEMY
Basic principles and requirements of
unity of invention
EPO
Ac. C-104-01 - Libertel
Ac. C-299-99 - Philips v.
Remington
Function & object
Absolute prohibitions
Relative prohibitions
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Ac. T-128/01 - Daimler
Chrysler
Ac. C-273/00 – Sieckmann
& others
17/11 & 18/11 –
Class 22, 23, 24
Trademarks (cont.)
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Registration procedure: national, EU
trademark, international protection
Notorious and prestigious trademarks
The intervention of courts in the evaluation of
Trademarks. Enforcement of IP Rights.
24/11 & 25/11 –
Class 25, 26, 27
1/12 & 2/12 –
Class 28, 29, 30
OHIM ACADEMY
Introduction to CTMs
(I)
Unitary Character and
Absolute Grounds
Florence Verhoestraete
(II)
Relative Grounds
Eric De Gryse
OHIM ACADEMY
Enforcement of IP rights (overview)
Olivier Vrins
INPI Campo das Cebolas, 1149035 – Lisboa
Map in
http://www.marcasepatentes.pt/
index.php?section=221
Visit to INPI
(Program to be defined)
The protection of logotypes
Research and presentation by students
Mini Moot Courts on Trademark Law
Cases:
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Mini Moot Court on Patent Law and Designs and Models Law
Louboutin v. YSL
Google v. Vuitton
Case:
Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co.
Ltd., et al
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9/12
Class 31
Unfair competition
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15/12 & 16/12
Class 32, 33, 34
Patent Law perspective
Designs & Models perspective
Basic concepts
Legal nature
Main categories of infractions
Unfair competition (cont)
Designations of origin and geographical indications
Research and presentation by
students
Indications about exam
Delivery of
essays
UNTIL 18/12
25 000 characters maximum (approximately 10 pages)
Font: Times new roman /Garamond, Font: 12, Line
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It is mandatory to send essays in
Pdf format to the following email:
spacing: 1,5
EXAM
29/1, 13h
claudiatrabuco@fd.unl.pt
Optional (can be replaced by presentation of written
essay + presentation + certificates in OHIM Courses)
but guaranteed to all students
Possible presentations/essays (suggestions):
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Exhaustion of IPR and Competition Law;
Compulsory licenses in Patent Law;
Supplementary protection certificates for medicinal and pharmaceutical products – purpose, object,
main rules;
Arbitration of industrial property conflicts in the pharmaceuticals sector;
What can we expect from the EU patent?
Utility models and the registration of minor inventions – identification of regimes in various
countries;
Protection of logotypes;
The protection of fashion within Industrial Property Law;
Designations of origin and geographical indications;
The role of institutionalized arbitration in Industrial Property Law – advantages, insufficiencies,
regime;
The calculation of damages for violations of IPR;
The ACTA regime – what can we expect from such an agreement?
Participation in the ELSA competition on Industrial Property Law (with individual written report
about such participation):
 Analysis of Case Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., et al, 11-1846, case record, U.S. District
Court, Northern District of California
All information and decision available here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation
 Analysis of Case Christian Louboutin SA et al v. USL America, Inc et al, 1:11cv2381 (NYSD August
10, 2011)
All information and decision available here:
http://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/upload_documents/Christian%20Louboutin
%20v.%20Yves%20Saint%20Laurent%20America.pdf
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1611250.html
http://www.leagle.com/decision/In%20FDCO%2020110810000T/CHRISTIAN%20LO
UBOUTIN%20v.%20YVES%20SAINT%20LAURENT%20AMERICA
 Analysis of joined Cases C-236/08 to C-238/08, Google France and Google Inc. et al. v. Louis Vuitton
Malletier et al., http://curia.europa.eu (Mar. 23, 2010);
 Analysis of Case C-324/09, L’Oréal SA and Others v eBay International AG and Others,
http://curia.europa.eu (July 11, 2011).
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