13 November 2015 - 14 November 2015
Time: 8:45am - 12:40pm
Venue: University of Basel, Law Faculty, Peter Merian Weg 8, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
The conference, organised by Professor Duncan Matthews, CCLS/ QMUL, and Professor Herbert Zech, University of Basel, will provide in-depth analysis of the boundaries between IP and Life Sciences. Presentations will address the significance of IP for medicine and pharmaceutics, the agricultural sector (crop sciences), Life Sciences research, as well as detailed country case studies.
The conference will be of special interest to academics and practitioners involved in IP and Life Sciences, with conference findings published subsequently as a "Research Handbook on IP and the Life Sciences".
Programme
Friday, 13 November 2015
- 08.45 Registration
- 09.30 – 09.45 Welcome Address, Professor Duncan Matthews, Professor Herbert Zech
- Session 1: Medicine and Pharmaceutics
09.45 – 10.05 Patenting Diagnostics, Dr Dieter Wächter (Vossius & Partner, Switzerland)
10.05 – 10.25 Patenting Biosimilars, Dr Claudia Mund (Basel Advanced Study Center, Switzerland)
10.25 – 10.45 Discussion
10.45 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 11.50 Patenting Human Genes in Europe, Professor Timo Minssen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
11.50 – 12.00 Discussion
- 12.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
- Session 2: Agricultural Sector
14.00 – 14.20 Protection of Plant Innovations, Dr Gert Würtenberger (Würtenberger Kunze, Germany)
14.20 – 14.40 Patenting Non-Transgenic Plants in the US, Professor Mark D. Janis (University of Indiana, USA)
14.40 – 15.00 Discussion
15.00 – 15.20 Patenting Transgenic Plants, James Allred (Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals, USA)
15.20 – 15.40 Seed Patents: Scope of Protection, Dependency and Exempted Reproductional Uses, Professor Axel Metzger (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
15.40 – 16.00 Discussion
16.00 – 16.30 Break
16.30 – 16.50 Convention on Biological Diversity and Regulatory Law as Plant Protection, Dr Claudio Chiarolla (World Intellectual Property Organisation, Switzerland)
16.50 – 17.00 Discussion
- Session 3: Country Case Studies in IP and the Life Sciences
17.00 – 17.20 Country Case Studies in IP and the Life Sciences – Japan, Professor Toshiko Takenaka (University of Washington, USA)
17.20 – 17.30 Discussion
- 18.00 Conference dinner – optional (please register using the form)
Saturday, 14 November 2015
- Session 4: Country Case Studies in IP and the Life Sciences
09.00 – 09.20 Kenya, Professor John Harrington (University of Cardiff, UK)
09.20 – 09.40 India, Professor Srividhya Ragavan (University of Oklahoma, USA)
09.40 – 10.00 Discussion
- Session 5: Research and Development
10.00 – 10.20 Stem Cell Research and Patents in the EU, Professor Aurora Plomer (University of Sheffield, UK)
10.20 – 10.40 Stem Cell Research and Patents in the US, Professor John M. Golden (University of Texas, USA)
10.40 – 11.00 Discussion
11.00 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 11.50 IP Pools and Beyond, Professor Geertrui Van Overwalle (University of Leuven, Belgium)
11.50 – 12.10 Discussion
- Session 6: Boundaries of IP in the Life Sciences
12.10 – 12.30 Pay for Delay Agreements, Professor Claudia Seitz (University of Basel, Switzerland)
12.30 – 12.40 Discussion
Contact
For more information, please contact the University of Basel on ZLSR@unibas.ch.
Photography, video and audio recording
Please note that CCLS events may be photographed or video and audio recorded. These materials will be used for internal and external promotional purposes only by Queen Mary University of London. If you object to appearing in the photographs, please let our photographer know on the day. Alternatively you can email the CCLS Events Team on ccls-events@qmul.ac.uk in advance of the event that you are attending.
