Venue

Grange City Hotel
8-10 Coopers Row
London
EC3N 2BQ
England

Speakers

Mr Jeremy Phillips is intellectual property consultant, olswang. He is a research director,Intellectual Property Institute, editor of The European Trade Mark Reports and Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice and co-founded the IPKat weblog.

Ms Dawn Osborne has been a partner of Rouse Legal (formerly Willoughby & Partners), Rouse & Co.’s UK legal arm, since 2000. She has extensive experience advising on, and acting in relation to, all aspects of soft IP enforcement, primarily trade marks, copyright and designs. She has a keen personal interest in fashion and costume and regularly acts for couture houses, designers and luxury companies to protect and advise in relation to their IP interests. One particularly memorable litigation success involved obtaining revocation of a design registration relating to science fiction costumes for a major film company.

Mr Christopher Stothers is an associate in the Intellectual Property Litigation group of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in London. His practice focuses on patent, trade mark and copyright litigation. He recently published his practitioner textbook Parallel Trade in Europe: Intellectual Property, Competition and Regulatory Law. He also lectures on IP and competition law topics at UCL.

Ms Carina Badger is a senior associate within the Macfarlanes IP/Commercial group, and advises on all aspects of intellectual property law including protection, exploitation and enforcement issues. A significant part of her practice involves advising on discrete IP licensing arrangements and general portfolio management.

Ms Sarah Wright is an associate, intellectual property group, Olswang. She specialises in trade marks, copyright, design right and database rights. An experienced litigator, she manages a number of client’s trade mark portfolios and also deals with non-contentious matters. She is currently appointed to the International Trademark Association’s Internet Committee.

Ms Estelle Derclaye is a lecturer at the University of Nottingham where she teaches intellectual property law. Previously, Estelle practised intellectual property in an international law firm in Brussels and was a lecturer at the Universities of Leicester and London (Queen Mary). She is the author of The Legal Protection of Databases: A Comparative Analysis, (Edward Elgar, 2008).

Ms Dids Macdonald is the CEO of ACID, Anti Copying In Design, a hard-hitting member organisation committed to fighting IP theft. She launched ACID as a result of her design-led products being consistently plagiarised. ACID’s objectives are education, prevention, deterrence and support utilising IP as a positive commercial force. ACID LOBBY has an ongoing campaign to raise awareness and improve design law.

Mr Jason Rawkins is a partner in Taylor Wessing’s IP department. Jason’s practice covers all aspects of intellectual property, in particular disputes relating to trade marks, designs and copyright. He is head of Taylor Wessing’s Fashion and Luxury Goods industry group and acts for several well-known companies in those sectors. Jason is also on the panel of Nnominet’s decision-making experts on UK domain name disputes and has extensive experience in that area.

Mr Gino Van Roeyen joined Banning in 1999. He laid the foundation for the present IP Practice Group and has specialized in this area. Gino publishes and lectures regularly. He is a member of the European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA), the Association of European Trade Mark Owners (Marques) and the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property. Gino works for a large number of reputable clients in areas that include food and fashion.

Ms Vicki Salmon is one of a handful of dual qualified solicitors and patent attorneys in the UK. With over 20 years experience of IP, her dual qualification gives her an insight into the roles of both professions. She advises clients in the fashion industry in relation to ownership and design enforcement and brand protection. She is a member of the Council for the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys and Chair of the CIPA Litigation Committee. She contributes to patent law text books and participates in seminars.