Wednesday, May 25, 2005 DAY 1 |
8.30 9.00 |
Registration |
9.00
9.30 |
Opening Ceremony: Address on
behalf of the Director General by: |
Guriqbal Singh Jaiya, Director,
SMEs Division, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
|
9.30
10.00 |
Keynote address: WIPO and
its SME-Related Activities |
Speaker: |
Guriqbal Singh Jaiya, Director,
SMEs Division, WIPO |
10.00 10.15 |
Coffee Break |
10.15 12.45 |
Theme 1 |
Outreach
and Support Plans, Projects, Products and Services for Schools,
Colleges, Universities, Research Institutes, Science/Research Parks,
Technology Parks and Innovation Centers |
Speakers: |
Theodore Schultz, Director West
Regional Office, Mexican IP Office, Mexico |
Miles Rees, Business
Development Manager, Awareness, Information & Media, UK Patent
Office, London
|
Simona Marzetti (Mrs.), Secretary
General, International Network for Small and Medium-sized
Enterprises (INSME), Rome
|
Pascal Duyck, Training Design
Manager, National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), Paris
|
Gilles Capart, Chairman of the
Board, Proton Europe, Belgium, Brussels
|
12.45 14.00 |
Lunch |
14.00 16.00 |
Theme 2 |
Outreach and Support/Training
Plans, Projects, Products and Services for Entrepreneurs, SMEs and
SME Support and SME Finance Institutions, including Venture
Capitalists |
Speakers: |
Mika Waris, Director, Marketing
and Business Services, National Board of Patents and Registration of
Finland, Helsinki |
Richard Leclerc, Manager, Outreach
and Dissemination Special Projects, Canadian Intellectual Property
Office (CIPO), Ottawa-Hull
|
Pascal Duyck, Training Design
Manager, National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), Paris
|
Sophie Reboud (Ms.), Head of
Management Department, Group ESC, Dijon
|
16.00 16.15 |
Coffee Break |
16.15
17.45 |
Theme 3
|
Improvements in IP Information
and Search Services |
Speakers: |
Serge Quazzotti, Director of
Technology Watch Centre, Technoport Schlassgoart, Luxembourg |
Roland Tschudin, Head of Training
Center for Patents, Trademarks, Designs and Authors Rights, Swiss
Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, Bern
|
Mariano Nieto, Technical Advisor
Patent Department, Spanish Patent and Trademark Office, Madrid
|
Thursday, May 26, 2005 DAY 2 |
9.00 11.00 |
Theme 4 |
Marketing the Services of IP Offices to Business and Industry; Plans,
Projects, Products and Services |
Speakers: |
Giuseppe Perale, Manager, Politecnico of Milan, Milan |
Heike Scheuerpflug (Mrs.), Office,
IPR-Helpdesk Officer, European Research and Project Office GmbH,
Saarbrόcken
|
Roland Tschudin, Head of Training
Center for Patents, Trademarks, Designs and Authors Rights, Swiss
Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, Bern
|
Serge Quazzotti, Director of
Technology Watch Centre, Technoport Schlassgoart, Luxembourg
|
11.00 11.30 |
Coffee
break |
11.30 12.00 |
Theme 5 |
On-line Newsletters, E-filing and E-support Services for Users of IP
Office Services |
Speaker: |
Christel Heremans (Ms.), Head of Service & Information, Benelux Trademark
Office |
12.00 12.30 |
Theme 6 |
E-learning Programs on IP for Entrepreneurs, Engineers, Managers/Staff and
Owners of SMEs |
Speaker: |
Francesca Toso (Mrs.), Head, Distance Learning Section, WIPO |
12.30 14.00 |
Lunch Break |
14.00 15.00 |
Theme 7 |
Support for Dealing with Counterfeiting and Piracy |
Speakers: |
Miles Rees, Business Development Manager, Awareness, Information & Media,
UK Patent Office, London |
Silvia Navares Gonzales
(Ms.), Head, International Cooperation and Courts Relations, Spanish
Patent and Trademark Office, Madrid
|
15.00 15.30 |
Theme 8 |
IP Accounting, Evaluation, Valuation and Audit |
Speakers: |
Tatiana Krylova (Mrs.), Head, Investment and Enterprise Competitiveness Branch,
UNCTAD |
Guido Von Scheffer, Director Sales and Organization, IP Bewertungs AG (IPB),
Hamburg |
15.30 16.00 |
Coffee Break |
16.00 16.30 |
Theme 9 |
Research and Studies on Use of IP by SMEs |
Speaker: |
Andrew Beale, Director, IP Wales, Swansea
|
16.30 17.15 |
Round-table |