1. Report by the Secretary General Team
15/02/2019
2018 AIPPI World Congress – Cancún
September , 2018
Report by the Reporter General Team
AIPPI Executive Committee (Session II), Cancun

2. Overview Harmonisation - Resolutions
Professional Development Programme
AIPPI’s Standing Committees
AIPPI Law Series (with Kluwer)
Looking ahead…

3. Harmonisation Programme3

4. Cancún Study Questions
Conflicting applications
Registrability of 3D trademarks
Partial designs
Joint liability for IP infringement
Patents
Trademarks
Designs
General

5. Other proposed Resolutions
Standing Committee on Pharma and Biotechnology
Standing Committee on Patents
Standing Committee on Patents
Standing Committee on Enforcement
Inventor remuneration
Post filing data
HCCH – Judgments Project 5

6. Professional Development 6

7. Professional Development Programme
Panel Sessions
Pharma Day – 4
Other Panel Sessions – 13 TM C
ANTI
THEFT
HOT TOPICS AI
Briefings Lunch Panels – 3
The Slants
IP5 Harmonisation
Block chain/ cryptocurency
80+ panellists (AIPPI members & guests)
In-house counsel
Business and industry leaders
Judges
Academics
GOs/ Regulators
NGOs

8. AIPPI’s Standing Committees
Role
'Observer' status
Work
Increasing AIPPI's presence, visibility and influence
 600 AIPPI members in Standing Committees
‘2+1’ members/Group
Concept
Any AIPPI member can opt in/out at any time
Any number of Standing Committees
Observe/contribute to Standing Committee activities
No voting rights
No 'appointment'
No nomination from Group
No Bureau approval
No appointment criteria
External engagement
Representation – WIPO, WTO, EUIPO, EU Observatory, EPO Boards of Appeal, Group B+, TM5, ID5, IPC
External Consultations
Publications
Position Papers
Law Reviews/Reports
Cancún Resolutions
Cancún Panel Sessions

9. Standing Committees – external engagement
Activity
ADR
Study – ADR in FRAND disputes (in preparation with Standards & Patents SC)
Global guide on ADR in IP disputes (in preparation)
Client Attorney Privilege
Representation – Group B+ meetings
Representation – WIPO SCP meetings
Contribution to drafting of multilateral treaty
Commercialisation of IP
Study – commercialisation of trade secrets (in preparation)
Copyright
Representation – WIPO SCCR meetings / side event
Representation – EUIPO Observatory
EC Consultation – illegal online content (with Enforcement, Piracy & Counterfeiting and Trademarks SCs)
EC Consultation – Evaluation of the Observatory (with Designs, Enforcement , IP Office Practice & Procedures, Piracy & Counterfeiting and Trademarks SCs)

10. Standing Committees – external engagement
Activity
Designs
Representation – WIPO SCT meetings
Representation – EUIPO User Group meetings
Representation – ID5
AIPPI / EUIPO Seminar in Alicante (with Trademarks SC)
Representation – EUIPO Annual Bilateral meeting (with Bureau)
Consultation – Supreme People’s Court of China patent case guidelines (with Patents and Pharma SCs)
EC Consultation – Evaluation of the Observatory (with Copyright, Enforcement & IP Office Practice & Procedures, Piracy & Counterfeiting and Trademarks SCs)
Presentations at NRG AIPPI meetings
Development & IP

11. Standing Committees – external engagement
Activity
Enforcement
EC Consultation – illegal online content (with Copyright, Piracy & Counterfeiting and Trademarks SCs)
EC Consultation – Evaluation of the Observatory (with Copyright, Designs, IP Office Practice & Procedures, Piracy & Counterfeiting and Trademarks SCs)
Proposal for Resolution – HCCH – Judgments Project (Cancún)
Free Trade Agreements
Study – membership of significant treaties / FTAs (in preparation)
IP & GRTK
Law Review – Indicating source / country of origin of GRTK in patent applications (with TRIPS SC)
Proposal for WTO Public Forum (2018)

12. Standing Committees – external engagement
Activity
IP Office Practice & Procedures
EUIPO Stakeholders Quality Assurance Panel
Representation – EUIPO User Group meetings; consultation event on user driven early certainty
Representation – EUIPO anti-scam network
Law Review – co-existence agreements (in preparation)
Law Review – drawings in utility/design patents (in preparation)
EC Consultation – Evaluation of the Observatory (with Copyright, Designs, Enforcement, Piracy & Counterfeiting and Trademarks SCs)
IP & Green Technology
Study – Fast track examination for “green” applications (in preparation)
Representation – COP 23

13. Standing Committees – external engagement
Activity
IT & Internet
Study – Expediting examination in computer implemented technology (in preparation)
Study – slide to unlock (in preparation)
Patents
Representation – Group B+ meetings
Representation – WIPO SCP meetings
Representation - EPO Boards of Appeal inaugural Bilateral meeting (with Bureau)
Consultation – Supreme People’s Court of China patent case guidelines (with Designs & Pharma SCs)
Presentations at China Patent Annual Conference
Proposal for a Resolution – Inventor remuneration (Cancún)

14. Standing Committees – external engagement
Activity
PCT
Representation – WIPO PCT Working Group meeting
Consultation – various Information Circulars (WIPO PCT WG)
Pharma & Biotechnology
Position Paper – UN High Level Panel Report on Access to Medicine (with TRIPS SC)
Consultation – Supreme People’s Court of China patent case guidelines (with Designs and Patents SCs)
Position Paper – Pharmaceutical inventions
Proposal for Resolution – Post-filing data (Cancún; with Biotechnology sub-committee)
Resolution – Gene patenting (2017, Sydney)
Position Paper – Microbiological deposits
Study – Antibody patenting (in preparation)
Volume 4, AIPPI Law Series – ‘Anti-body Patenting’ (volume editor, chapter authors)

15. Standing Committees – external engagement
Activity
Piracy & Counterfeiting
Representation – EU Observatory
Consultation – OECD guidance on countering illicit trade
EC Consultation – illegal online content (with Copyright, Enforcement and Trademarks SCs)
EC Consultation – Evaluation of the Observatory (with Copyright, Designs, Enforcement, IP Office Practice & Procedures and Trademarks SCs)
Standards & Patents
Representation – WIPO meetings
Study – ADR in FRAND disputes (in preparation with ADR SC)
Trade Secrets
Consultation – EUIPO report on trade secrets
Study – company trade secret policies (in preparation)
Study – trade secrets in the EU (in preparation)
Study – cross border protection (in preparation)

16. Standing Committees – external engagement
Activity
Trademarks
EUIPO – CP9 meeting; CP8 & CP9 questionnaires
EUIPO Stakeholders Quality Assurance Panel
Representation – TM5 meetings
Representation – EUIPO User Group meeting
Representation – IPC meeting
Representation – EUIPO Annual Bilateral meeting (with Bureau)
AIPPI / EUIPO Seminar in Alicante (with Designs SC)
EC Consultation – illegal online content (with Copyright, Designs, Enforcement and Piracy & Counterfeiting SCs)
WIPO – SCT and Working Group meetings; questionnaire

17. Standing Committees – external engagement
Activity
TRIPS
Law Review – Indicating source / country of origin of GRTK in patent applications (with IP & GRTK SC)
Position Paper - UN High Level Panel report on Access to Medicines (with Pharma SC)
WTO Public Forum – working session (2017)
Presentation at WTO Symposium for IP Judges
Representation – WTO Ministerial conference
Proposals for WTO Public Forum/WTO Workshop (2018)
Representation – WTO IP Division annual bilateral meeting (with Bureau)

18. Standing Committees – external engagement
Activity
UP/UPC
Proposal to file an Amicus Brief – German ratification of the UPCA
Position Paper – Relationship between decisions of the EPO / UPC (in preparation)
Position Paper – Enforcement of UPC decisions (in preparation)

19. AIPPI Law Series Volume 4 - ongoing collaboration with Kluwer
Cancún launch – “Genuine Use of Trademarks”
Builds on Resolution – “The requirement of genuine use of trademarks for maintaining protection” (2011, Hyderabad) and subsequent Panel Sessions
Eléonore Gaspar, Chair of SC on Trademarks – Volume editor
Chapters from Europe, the Americas, Asia and ASEAN countries (all AIPPI members)
Volume 5 already in preparation!

20. Looking ahead… Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH)
Development of a Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
Diplomatic Conference (anticipated 2019)

21. Looking ahead… Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH)
Development of a Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
Diplomatic Conference (anticipated 2019)
Collaboration with other NGOs
FICPI / AIPLA – Colloquium on AI (Turino, March 2019)
INTA – Panel re FTAs (Boston, May 2019)

22. Looking ahead… Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH)
Development of a Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
Diplomatic Conference (anticipated 2019)
Collaboration with other NGOs
FICPI / AIPLA – Colloquium on AI (Turino, March 2019)
INTA – Panel re FTAs (Boston, May 2019)
And a new team!

23. Looking ahead…

24. Programme Committee Report
ExCo I
Programme Committee Report
Larry Welch
October 14, 2017

25. Composition PC strives diversity in all forms
Current representation has broad geographic, legal, and professional representation.
It includes 11 members from:
UK, Canada, Turkey, China, Italy, Japan, France, United States, Netherlands, Switzerland and Republic of Korea
Professional backgrounds include members
External Lawyers
Law professors
In house counsel
All IP disciplines (patents, trademarks, designs and copyrights)

26. Current members Larry Welch (US) John Brunner (UK)
Steven B. Garland (CA)
Baris Atalay (TR)
Qing Ge (CN)
Fabrizio Sanna (IT)
Eiichiro Kubota (JP)
Thomas Bouvet (FR)
Remy Chavannes (NL)
Andri Hess (CH)
Sun R Kim (KR)

27. Programme Committee
Members whose term expires

28. New members nominated
Maria Cecilia Romoleroux (EC)

29. Programme Committee Process
Proposals for Study Questions and Panels requested in December
Average around 100 received per year
These are reviewed over two days in January
Recommendations made to RGT
Study Questions now have two options to be voted on for each of patents, trademarks/designs, copyrights and general
PC members monitor sessions during meetings, review what works, what could be improved

30. Thanks for your attention!