Lecture by Professor Christoph Ann of TUM: Patent Invalidity and Legal Stability
Event Date
Event Venue
August 28, 2017
Professor Christoph Ann, TUM School of Management
Lecture on Intellectual Property Law: Patent Invalidity and Legal Stability
Date & Time: Monday, September 25, 2017, 18:00–20:00
Venue: Conference Room, 3rd Floor, North Building, Keio University Mita Campus, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Capacity: 90 people
Admission may be denied if capacity is reached.
Please register by email at the address below, preferably by September 22.
Admission: Free
Language: English (with scheduled interpretation)
For registration and inquiries:
Email: seminars.keio.law[at]gmail.com
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In conjunction with the visit of Professor Dr. Christoph Ann of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) as a Guest Professor (Part-time) at our Graduate School of Law, we will be holding a lecture co-hosted with the Intellectual Property Law Section of the Tokyo Bar Association. Professor Ann is the co-author of Kraßer/Ann, Patentrecht, 7th ed., 2016, a standard textbook on German patent law, and is one of Germany's leading patent law scholars.
Many patent infringement lawsuits in Europe are filed in Germany. But is it really advantageous to file an infringement suit in Germany? In Germany, invalidity proceedings are often filed in parallel with infringement litigation. Surprisingly, it seems that cases where patents are found to be invalid are not uncommon. This public lecture will explore the current situation of patent invalidity and infringement litigation in Germany from the perspective of the stability of patent rights.
Program
18:00 Opening Remarks: Juro Iwaya, Professor, Dean of the Graduate School of Law and Faculty of Law
18:05 Lecture: Christoph Ann, Professor, TUM School of Management
19:00 Comments
—From the perspective of Japanese law
Atsushi Kawada, Attorney-at-Law, Intellectual Property Law Section of the Tokyo Bar Association
—From the perspective of US law
Toshiko Takenaka, Professor, University of Washington School of Law and Keio University Law School
—Japan-Germany-US Comparison and Summary: Yuko Kimijima, Professor, Graduate School of Law and Faculty of Law
19:45 Q&A Session and Closing Remarks
Co-hosted by: Keio University Graduate School of Law and the Intellectual Property Law Section of the Tokyo Bar Association