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2023 WIPO Intellectual Property Judges Forum

Promoting transnational dialogue among judiciaries

The annual WIPO Intellectual Property Judges Forum aims to provide a platform for judges from across the globe to exchange their expertise on the most pressing intellectual property (IP) challenges raised by accelerating innovation and the increasingly transnational use of IP.

The 2023 WIPO Intellectual Property Judges Forum was held on November 15 and 16, 2023. 

Past editions

The WIPO Intellectual Property Judges Forum is an annual event organized by the WIPO Judicial Institute as part of the Organization’s work with the judiciaries. In 2022, the Forum brought together 381 judges from 99 countries and three regional courts, to engage with their global peers.

Attendance at the Forum is limited to judges of courts and adjudicators of quasi-judicial appeal bodies of Intellectual Property Offices.

November 15-16, 2023

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Hybrid meeting

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Practical Information

Program

Day one – November 15, 2023

Registration (8.00 – 9.00)

 

Opening (9.00 – 9.20)

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Daren Tang
Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
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Rian Kalden

Presiding Judge, Second Panel of the Court of Appeal, Unified Patent Court, Luxembourg; Chair of the WIPO Advisory Board of Judges

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Master of Ceremonies:
Inés Fernández Ulate

Legal Officer, WIPO Judicial Institute
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Master of Ceremonies:
Nahal Zebarjadi
Legal Officer, WIPO Judicial Institute
 

Session 1: Emerging Issues in Trademarks (9.20 – 10.45)

  • Non-traditional trademarks
  • Bad faith trademark filings

Moderator and Speakers:

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Moderator: Zane Pētersone
Judge, Supreme Court, Riga, Latvia
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Winston Anderson
Justice, Caribbean Court of Justice, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
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Hugo Ramiro Gómez Apac
Judge, Court of Justice of the Andean Community, Quito, Ecuador
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Rahmi Mulyati
Justice, Civil Chamber, Supreme Court, Jakarta, Indonesia
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Savvas Papasavvas
Vice-President, General Court of the European Union, Luxembourg
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Marjana Semini-Tutulani
Judge, Constitutional Court, Tirana, Albania
 

Reference Judgments:

 

Coffee Break (10.45 – 11.15)

 

Session 2: Emerging Issues in Industrial Designs (11.15 – 12.30)

  • Interplay of industrial designs with patents, trademarks and copyright
  • Industrial designs and their technical or functional features
  • Infringement issues

Moderator and Speakers:

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Moderator: Rian Kalden

Presiding Judge, Second Panel of the Court of Appeal, Unified Patent Court, Luxembourg

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Dinh Ngoc Thu Huong
Judge, High People’s Court, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
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Moustafa Ahmed Farrag Hussein
Judge, Court of Appeals of the Assiut Economic Court, Assiut, Egypt
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Luis Manuel Ferrao
Retired Appellate Judge, Intellectual Property, Competition, Regulation and Supervision Division, Court of Appeal, Lisbon, Portugal
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Hugo Ramiro Gómez Apac
Magistrate, Court of Justice of the Andean Community, Quito, Ecuador
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Stephen Mubiru
Justice, High Court, Kampala, Uganda
 

Reference Judgments:

Lunch Break (12.30 – 14.00)

 

Session 3: Emerging Issues in Geographical Indications (14.00 – 15.15)

  • Recognition and registration
  • Scope of protection
  • Unlawful evocation

Moderator and Speakers:

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Moderator:
Marcus Höpperger

Senior Director, Department for Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications, WIPO
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Dedar Singh Gill
High Court Judge, Supreme Court, Singapore
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Alfredo S. Gusman
Chief Judge, Federal Civil and Commercial Chamber II, National Civil and Commercial Court of Appeals, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Virginia Melgar
Chairperson, Fifth Board of Appeal, European Union Intellectual Property Office, Alicante, Spain
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Yolanda Ríos Lopez
Judge, Commercial Court Number 1, Barcelona, Spain
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Albert J. Zervas
Administrative Trademark Judge, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America
 

Reference Judgments:

Coffee Break (15.15 – 15.45)

 

Special Guest Speaker on AI and Decision Making (15.45 – 16.15)

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Arvind Narayanan
Professor of Computer Science and Director, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University, New Jersey, United States of America

Reference Articles:

  

Session 4: Intellectual Property and Competition Issues (16.15 – 17.30)

  • Refusal to license
  • No challenge clauses
  • Comparative advertising
  • Market dominance and pricing behavior

Moderator and Speakers:

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Moderator:
Jimmie V. Reyna

Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington, D.C., United States of America
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Annabelle Bennett
Former Judge, Federal Court of Australia, Sydney, Australia
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Ángel Galgo Peco
President, Chamber No. 32, Court of Appeal of Madrid, Spain
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Márcia Maria Nunes de Barros
Federal Judge, Thirteenth Federal Court of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Zhu Li
Deputy Chief Judge, Intellectual Property Division, Supreme People’s Court, Beijing, China
 

Reference Judgments:

Further Reference Materials:

  

Group photo to be followed by reception (17.30)

Day two – November 16, 2023

Session 5: Generative Artificial Intelligence, the Metaverse and Intellectual Property Infringement (9.30 – 10.45)

  • Trademark issues that may arise in the context of the Metaverse
  • Localizing infringement in the Metaverse
  • Copyrightability of AI-generated content
  • The judicial process and AI and the Metaverse

Moderator and Speakers:

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Moderator: Rian Kalden
Presiding Judge, Second Panel of the Court of Appeal, Unified Patent Court, Luxembourg
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Richard Arnold
Lord Justice of Appeal, Court of Appeal of England and Wales, London, United Kingdom
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Stephen Burley
Justice, Federal Court of Australia, Sydney, Australia
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Jimmie V. Reyna
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington, D.C., United States of America
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Zhang Lingling
Judge, Intellectual Property Division, Supreme People’s Court, Beijing, China
 

Reference Judgments:

 Further Reference Materials:

 

Coffee Break (10.45 – 11.15)

 

Session 6: Rules of Evidence in Intellectual Property Litigation (11.15 – 12.30)

  • Expert evidence
  • Digital evidence
  • Purchase of alleged infringing goods
  • Survey evidence in trademark cases
  • Preservation and seizure
  • Cross-border taking of evidence

Moderator and Speakers:

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Moderator:
Prathiba M. Singh
Justice, High Court of Delhi, New Delhi, India
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Nehad Al Hussban
President, Court of First Instance, Amman, Jordan
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Michael Baylson
Senior Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America
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Olayinka Faji
Justice, Federal High Court, Lagos, Nigeria
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Fabian Hoffmann
Judge, Federal Court of Justice, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Mizuno Masanori
Judge, Intellectual Property High Court, Tokyo, Japan
 

Reference Judgments:

Further Reference Materials:

Lunch Break (12.30 – 14.00)

 

WIPO’s Work with Judiciaries (14.00 – 14.15)

Min Eun-Joo
Director, WIPO Judicial Institute
  

Session 7: Simplified or Fast Track Procedures for Certain Intellectual Property Claims (14.15 – 15.45)

  • Objectives of simplified or fast track procedures
  • Judicial efficiency of appeal proceedings: options and methodology
  • Scope of simplified or fast track procedures (e.g., type of intellectual property right, value of the claim, remedies sought, complexity of the case)
  • Features of simplified or fast-track proceedings (e.g., shorter time limits, simplified rules for representation, pleading, hearings and discovery)

Moderator and Speakers:

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Moderator:
Dedar Singh Gill

High Court Judge, Supreme Court, Singapore
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Colin Birss
Lord Justice, Court of Appeal of England and Wales, London, United Kingdom
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Mabel Jansen-Grotepass
Former Judge, Gauteng Local Division, High Court, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Carl Josefsson
President, Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office, European Patent Organisation, Haar, Germany
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Brad Newberg
Copyright Claims Officer, Copyright Claims Board, U.S. Copyright Office, Washington, D.C., United States of America
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Prathiba M. Singh
Justice, High Court of Delhi, New Delhi, India
 

Reference Judgments:

 Further Reference Materials:

  

Coffee Break (15.45 – 16.15)

 

Session 8: Court Referred Mediation Mechanisms Available for Intellectual Property Disputes (16.15 – 17.30)

  • Forms of court-referred mediation
  • Advantages and limitations of IP mediation
  • Identifying suitable IP cases for mediation
  • Internal mediation protocols of courts
  • Judicial mediation training programs

Moderator and Speakers:

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Moderator:
Heike Wollgast

Head, IP Disputes Section, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
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Malik Chapuis
Judge, Third Chamber, First Instance Court of Paris, France
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Young Gi Kim
High Court Judge, Intellectual Property High Court, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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Michael Manson
Justice, Federal Court, Ottawa, Canada
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Zane Pētersone
Judge, Supreme Court, Riga, Latvia
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Heinrich F. von Lücken Gamarra
Judge, Civil and Commercial Chamber, First Instance Court, Asunción, Paraguay
 

Reference Judgments:

 Further Reference Materials:

 

Closing (17.30 – 17.45)

  

Social Dinner (Optional) (19.00 – 21.30)