First WIPO–Bucerius/UC Hastings Summer Program
August 16, 2018
A three-week intensive summer program in International Intellectual Property (IP) Transactions, offered at Bucerius Law School in partnership with the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and the WIPO Academy, was held in Hamburg, Germany, from July 9 to 27, 2018.
The summer program enabled 27 young professionals and advanced law students from 12 countries to develop their knowledge of the factors influencing current IP practice and to gain practical negotiation skills in strategy formulation for IP transactions across borders and legal systems. The summer program included a negotiation workshop and lectures covering topics such as:
- practical and legal aspects of IP licensing,
- licensing in biotech,
- conflict of laws in international agreements and
- quality control in trademark licensing.