November 2

Panel 1 -

Estelle Derclaye:  A Decade of Registered and Unregistered Design Rights Decisions in the UK: Past, Present and Future   (updated 11/28)

David Gerk:  The Future of Design in the United States

Henning Hartwig:  The Future of Hybrid Design Protection Systems: Registered v. Unregistered Rights – A European Perspective

Paul Maier:  European Design Legislation

 

Panel 2 -

Wenyu Zhou:  Design Protection in the Telecommunication Industry

 

Panel 3 -

Annette Kur:  GUIs as Design Subject Matter

Bing Wang:  Jurisprudence of the Industrial Design Protection of the Graphical User Interface of Electronic Products

Uma Suthersanen:  Designs – An Affair Between Function and Aestheticism Part A

Uma Suthersanen:  Designs – An Affair Between Function and Aestheticism Part B

Uma Suthersanen:  Designs – An Affair Between Function and Aestheticism Part B continued

David Musker:  Designs and Inherency

 

 

November 3

Panel 4 -

Christopher Carani:  The Ever-Stimulating Conundrum of Evergreening IP Rights

Sir Richard Arnold:  Cumulation of Rights for the Protection of Designs: The Current UK Model and What to Do about It

Xiaowu Li:  The Overlapping IP Protection of Product Design and Its Potential Conflict

Alain Strowel:  When Art and Utility Merge, Rights Collide

 

Panel 5 -

Lionel Bently:  Designs Untethered

Sarah Burstein:  Not (Necessarily) Narrower: Rethinking the Relative Scope of Copyright for Designs

Henry Carr QC:  Scope of Design Protection: Overall Impression, the Design Corpus, and Design Freedom