Last week Class 99 posted this item on a forthcoming event on Friday 12 September 2014, "International Design: The Hague System - International Registration of Designs", which takes place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This course, led by Yves Closet (Head of the Information and Promotion Section at the Hague Registry, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), is run by Forum · Institut für Management GmbH and offers a registration discount of around 10% to readers of this weblog.

The same organisers have also informed us of a further event that might be of use or interest to MARQUES members and Class 99 readers. On 19 November 2014 there's "EU Design Law: a one-day practitioners' guide", conducted by MARQUES design team chair David Stone (Simmons & Simmons), also held in Amsterdam. More information is on this programme, plus registration details, can be found by clicking here. In order to register for a handsome fee reduction (€ 860 -- down from € 960) Class 99 Blog readers need only to forward this blog notice to the responsible conference manager, Jean-Claude Alexandre Ho, at jc.alexandreho@forum-institut.de, or call him, quoting "Class 99" (+49 6211 500-675).

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If you are organising an event, be it a seminar, workshop, lecture or conference, which deals with design law and offers any special discount or advantages to MARQUES members and readers of Class 99, do please let us know!