MIPLC Lecture Series

Initiated in 2005, MIPLC Lecture Series invites renowned scholars and practitioners from all over the world to give presentations on current issues of intellectual property law.

The lectures are organized with the kind support of and hosted at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. They are aimed at the interested IP and competition law community and are open to the public.

Please email us if you would like to be added to our distribution list or if you would like to propose a topic for a lecture. We look forward to hearing from you.

The following lectures were held in the context of our Lecture Series:

Year	Topic	Speaker
2024	A Quotidian Revolution? AI and Trade Mark Law The full paper on which the talk is based is available here: Gangjee, Dev S., A Quotidian Revolution: Artificial Intelligence and Trade Mark Law (April 11, 2022). Forthcoming in Ryan Abbott (ed), Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence (Edward Elgar, 2022)., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4081317 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139 /ssrn.4081317	Professor Dev S. Gangjee, University of Oxford
2023	The Unified Patent Court - Nordic Perspective Download the Slides for this presentation	Dr. Vilhelm Schröder, Hannes Snellmann
2021	Legal, economic, and technical perspectives on interoperability or how to gain normative strength via technical determination by law Download the Slides for this presentation	Dr. Begoña Gonzalez Otero and Jörg Hoffmann, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
2020	Article 17 and the New EU Rules on Content-Sharing Platforms Download the Slides for this presentation	Dr. João Pedro Quintais, Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Information Law (University of Amsterdam)
2019	The Economic Efficiency of the Amount of Resources Devoted to R&D	Richard S Markovits, Professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law
2019	The Impact of Artificial Intelligence in the Patent System	Andrei Iancu, Director of the USPTO and Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
2019	Challenges and Opportunities in Life Sciences Today Download the Slides for the presentation	Sarah C. Columbia, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Boston and Dr. Rüdiger Herrmann, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Frankfurt
2019	Proposed State Legislation Concerning Drug Pricing: A Preliminary Analysis	Professor Michael Mireles, University of the Pacific
2019	Protection of Country Names: National and International Perspectives Download the Slides for this presentation	Professor Dr. Felix Addor, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
2019	Digital Ecosystems, Decision-Making, Competition, Consumers Download the Slides for this presentation	Professor Dr. Rupprecht Podszun, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
2018	A lgorithmic Transparency for Governments Download the Slides for this presentation	Professor Robert Brauneis, The George Washington University Law School
2018	Artificial Intelligence and Data Markets - from Contracts to Public Policy Download the Slides for this presentation	Paul Gagnon, LL.M. (MIPLC), Element AI
2018	Striking the Right Balance between the Benefits of Transparency and the Need for Confidentiality in Licensing Download the Slides for this presentation	Dr. Claudia Tapia, Ericsson
2018	International Data Transfers and the Nexus Between Data Protection/Privacy & Trademark Law Download the Slides for this presentation	Ray Thomas Jr., IBM, and Mikołaj Rogowski, Intel
2018	IP Considerations for Industry 4.0 and Artificial Intelligence Download the Slides for this presentation	Sonia Cooper and Nicolas Schifano, Microsoft
2017	Liability of Online Platforms in the Digital Single Market: A Closer Look at the 'Transfer of Value' Discussion	Dr. Tobias Holzmüller, GEMA
2017	The Most Important Intellectual Property Developments in the US	Sarah Columbia, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Boston
2015	(IP) Negotiations as Multi-Party Joint Decision-Making	Jan Walter, Senior Policy Officer, International Trade at Eurogroup for Animals
2015	Ten Common Mistakes to Avoid When Drafting and Prosecuting US Patent Applications Download the Slides for this presentation	Benjamin J. Hauptman, Lowe, Hauptman & Ham, LLP, Alexandria, VA
2015	Governing Knowledge Commons	Michael J. Madison, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
2015	After the America Invents Act – The State of US Patent Infringement Litigation Download the Slides for this presentation	Sarah C. Columbia, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Boston
2015	Computer-Implemented Inventions in Europe Download the Slides for this presentation	Alexander Celland, European Patent Attorney and former Chair of an EPO Technical Board of Appeal
2014	Nuances in the Indian Patent System and Their Implications in the Enforcement of Patents in India Download the Slides for this presentation	Prabuddha Ganguli, CEO VISION-IPR, Mumbai
2014	Broader Protection of Trademarks with Reputation in EU Download the Slides for this presentation	Ewa Skrzydło-Tefelska, Maria-Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin
2014	IP Underlying Media Value - Ecosystem Disruptions, Legal Uncertainty, and Revenues in Jeopardy	Jeffrey C. Ulin, Irdeto, Amsterdam
2013	The Right IP Mix – How To Choose a Good Balance Between Patents and Trade Secrets Download the Slides for this presentation	Eva Willnegger, European Patent Attorney, Brussels
2013	Commission Proposal for Antitrust Damages Directive – Ends and Means of Harmonised Rules Download the Slides for this presentation	Filip Kubík, European Commission, DG Competition
2013	The Comparative Law and Economics of Standard Essential Patents and FRAND Royalties Download the Slides for this presentation	Thomas F. Cotter, University of Minnesota
2013	Patent Litigation in the Pharmaceutical Sector in Germany Download the Slides for this presentation	Anna Wolters, Bird & Bird
2013	EU Competition Law: Procedure and Process before the General Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union	Eileen Sheehan, Court of Justice of the European Union, Chambers of Advocate General Melchior Wathelet
2013	The Apple v. Samsung Case: How Design Law in Europe Evolves Download the Slides for this presentation	Charles Gielen, University of Groningen
2012	The WTO "Paragraph 6 System": Compulsory Licenses for Export to Third Countries - Diverging Theory and Practice?	Beatrice Stirner, University of Neuchâtel, MIPLC Alumna, Class of 2003/04
2012	Disintermediation in Copyright Law - A Skeptical View Download the Slides for this presentation	Guy Pessach, Hebrew University Jerusalem
2012	Who Owns e-Sports Performances? Download the Slides for this presentation	Dan L. Burk, University of California, Irvine
2012	The Rise and (Possible) Fall of ACTA	Christophe Geiger, CEIPI
2012	The Misappropriation of Trade Secrets in Germany and U.S. Discovery Aid Download the Slides for this presentation	Friedrich Klinkert, Klinkert Zindel Partner
2012	Experimental Tests of Creativity and Innovation in Intellectual Property	Christopher Buccafusco, IIT Chicago-Kent
2012	The FRAND Defense in European Litigation Involving Standard-Essential Patents Download the Slides for this presentation	Christof Karl, Bardehle Pagenberg
2011	Contextualizing Patent Linkages in the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector: Lessons from the Bayer Corporation Case	V.K. Unni, Indian Institute for Management
2011	The "Death of the Author" Debate in Anglo-Saxon Scholarship and Its Unwelcome Side Effects	Andreas Rahmatian, University of Glasgow
2011	Substantive Patent Law Harmonization in the Current Global Context: Issues in Comparative Law and Policy	Sylvie Strobel, European Patent Office
2011	A Trade Agreement Creating Barriers to International Trade? ACTA Border Enforcement and Generic Drugs in Transit	Henning Grosse Ruse - Khan, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law
2010	Patent Rights, Patient Rights: The WHO's Role in the Intersection of Public Health and Innovation	Susanne Weber-Mosdorf, World Health Organization
2010	Copyright and Access to Knowledge in South America: The Debates Regarding Copyright Law in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile	Beatriz Busaniche, National University of Buenos Aires
2010	Harnessing Intellectual Property for Business Dominance: The Indian Experience	V.K. Unni, Indian Institute for Management
2010	Life or Death for US Business Methods Patents?	Ronald E. Myrick, Finnegan
2010	Pioneering Peer-to-Peer and Other Disruptive Dual-Use Technologies	Michael A. Carrier, Rutgers University School of Law - Camden
2010	Trademark Strategies in China	Maria Cristina Caldarola, LL.M., Robert Bosch GmbH
2009	Recent Developments in US Patent Litigation Law	Terrence McMahon, McDermott Will Emery
2009	The Development of Germany as a Patent Litigation Venue in the Last Decade: Advantage Patentee?	Johannes Heselberger, Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler
2009	The Patenting of Antibodies and Their Medical Uses in the EPO	Hans-Rainer Jaenichen, Vossius & Partner
2009	Is Information?	Robert A. Heverly, Michigan State University College of Law
2009	Innovation Policy and Friends of the Court: Patent Right Advocacy before the U.S. Supreme Court	James G. Conley and David Orozco
2008	U.S. Patent Reform Legislation	John M. Whealan, The George Washington University Law School
2008	The Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court	The Honourable Randall R. Rader, U.S. Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit
2008	Inventing Invention: The Patentability Standard as a Case Study in Legal Innovation	John F. Duffy, The George Washington University Law School
2008	IP Organisation and IP Strategy in a Globally Active Group of Companies	Bertram Huber, Robert Bosch GmbH
2007	The Limits of Trademark Law: Proscriptive Principles and Permissive Principles	Graeme Dinwoodie, LL.M., J.S.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law
2007	Copyright and Facts: Two Centuries of Changing Treatment Under U.S. Law	Robert Brauneis, The George Washington University Law School
2007	Removing Property from Intellectual Property and (Intended?) Pernicious Impacts on Innovation and Competition	F. Scott Kieff, Washington University (St. Louis)
2007	Valuation and Management of IP-Based Companies – Findings From a Research Project	Eva Nathusius, Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies, Technische Universität München, et al.
2007	The Quiet Revolution in American Copyright Law	Paul Goldstein, Stanford University
2007	Indian Patent Law and Patent Policy Facing New Challenges	Martin J. Adelman, The George Washington University Law School
2006	Patent Legislation Reform in the United States: A View from the Trenches	John R. Thomas, Georgetown University
2006	The Law Growth Nexus – The Implications of a Rule of Law Approach to Economic Development – China as a Test Case	Kenneth W. Dam, University of Chicago Law School
2006	The Internationalization of the American Law Curriculum: Intellectual Property Law and Criminal Law	Frederick M. Lawrence, The George Washington University Law School
2006	When Copyright Users Cannot Find Copyright Owners: Proposed U.S. Legislation on Orphan Works	Paul Goldstein, Stanford University
2006	Developments in the Legal Protection for Sound Recordings under U.S. Law	F. Jay Dougherty, Loyola Law School
2005	Copyright Duration and Multinational Disharmony	Kenneth D. Crews, M.L.S., Ph.D., Indiana University School of Law
2005	Trademark Law and Social Norms	Graeme Dinwoodie, LL.M., J.S.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law
2005	Coordination, Property & Intellectual Property: An Unconventional Approach to Anticompetitive Effects & Downstream Access	F. Scott Kieff, Washington University in St. Louis
2005	Secondary Liability in Copyright	Paul Goldstein, Stanford University
2005	Criminal Law of Intellectual Property in the United States	Orin S. Kerr, The George Washington University Law School
2005	“Kirin-Amgen v. TKT” – an American Perspective to the U.K. House of Lords Decision	The Honourable Randall R. Rader, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit