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Sustainable Brands
A Luxury or a Necessity
15th -18th September 2009, Brighton, U K |
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Programme
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Friday |
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Introduction |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
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0930
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ANNUAL
GENERAL MEETING |
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0945
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ICANN AND THE NEW gTLD PROGRAMME
ICANN plan to open up the domain name system through an open
application process that could see 500 new registries
created in the next two years. Why are they doing this? How
will they judge success? Who will be the winners and losers?
Will there be Rights Protection Mechanisms to limit the
impact on trade mark owners?
SESSION CHAIR:
Nick Wood, Com Laude, UK
Member of the MARQUES
Council and Chair of the MARQUES
Cyberspace Team
SPEAKERS:
Karla Valente, Director of Product Services and
Communications, ICANN, USA
Bart Lieben, Laga, Belgium |
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1045
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LEWIS GAZE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
PRESENTATION
Guido Baumgartner, Coty Prestige Lancaster Group GMBH,
Germany
Chairman of the MARQUES
Council |
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1100
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COFFEE
& EXHIBITION |
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1130
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OHIM AND THE EUROPEAN COURTS OF
JUSTICE – LATEST DEVELOPMENTS AND CASE LAW
SESSION CHAIR:
Adrian Smith, Simmons & Simmons, UK
Chair of the MARQUES
Trademark Law and Practice Team
SPEAKERS:
Wubbo de Boer, President of the Office for Harmonization
in the Internal Market, OHIM, Spain
Charles Gielen, NautaDutilh NV, The Netherlands
Vincent O’Reilly, Director of the Department for IP
Policy, OHIM, Spain |
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1300
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CONFERENCE SUMMATION AND CLOSE
Guido Baumgartner, Coty Prestige Lancaster Group GMBH,
Germany
Chairman of the MARQUES
Council |
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1315
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LUNCH |
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