ATRIP - Teaching and Research in IP

We are happy to announce the 2024 Essay Competition for Young Researchers in Intellectual Property sponsored by FICPI - International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys 📣 🏆 🥇 📚 The Essay Competition is open for authors not older than 35 as of December 31, 2024. ATRIP President may waive the age requirement in certain special situations. We accept submissions (in French or English) no later than February 21, 2025. The author of the winning paper will be invited to present at the 2025 ATRIP international annual conference to be held from June 22 to June 25, 2025, at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark! 🇩🇰 🎊 The Call for Submissions with all the requirements can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eFFXVwXU Please share the information on the Essay Competition with young researchers potentially interested in participating. We look forward to receiving your submissions!

EXCITING NEWS: We are happy to announce the launching of the new ATRIP website! 💻 📣 💡 Our website has gone through a significant facelift, and it now has a fresh, modern appearance, as well as various new features. We invite you to take a look and tell us in the comments how much you liked our website 😊 www.atrip.org

A week has passed since the ATRIP Annual Congress at Luiss Guido Carli in Rome, and it is time for some concluding remarks and words of gratitude. It was a huge pleasure to host such a wonderful event, rich in content and lively discussions - both during the sessions and the fantastic evening events. All of this was possible primarily thanks to the diverse list of attendees: 200 participants and 120+ speakers from 40+ countries, gathering for a truly unique international IP experience — a big thanks to everyone for making it all possible! 🌍 👏 The year-long preparations for the Congress took lots of effort. We want to express our heartfelt thanks to Professor Christophe Geiger, the scientific director and organizer of the Congress, and everyone at Luiss who was involved, in particular: the LUISS IP research team: Vincenzo Iaia, Ludovico Bossi, Maria Vittoria Palmieri, Francesca Di Lazzaro, Dr. Iur. Anna Zielkiewicz, LL.M.; Antonella Aiello and the Luiss Event team; Roberta Pasquini and the entire Triumph team. Big thanks also to the ATRIP team - Prof. Orit Fischman Afori, Prof. Raquel Xalabarder, Ingrid Boland and Gil Dagan and all our Executive Board members, as well as Genevieve Wilkinson and Evana Wright for their help in organizing the Doctoral workshop. We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to the Luiss management for their unconditional support, its former Rector Andrea Prencipe and its new Rector Paolo Boccardelli; the head of the Department of Law Antonio Punzi and the Head for research at the Department of Law, Aldo Sandulli. We equally thank the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO for its historical and long-lasting support for ATRIP, and in particular its Assistant Director General Edward Kwakwa for his keynote address and support of the Doctoral competition. Our Congress ended with a transition in the ATRIP Presidency. We wish to thank Prof. Christophe Geiger (ATRIP President 2022-2024) for his long dedicated work, and congratulate the new President, Prof. Orit Fischman-Afori (ATRIP President 2024-2026), who has officially entered into her new role. We also want to congratulate the new President Elect, Prof. Estelle Derclaye. More visuals from the Congress and further updates will be shared soon. In the meantime, we invite you to pin the end of June 2025 in your calendars, and get ready for our next ATRIP Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark! 🇩🇰 🤩

After 4 amazing days of IP, many of our remaining guests gathered for a tour around the magnificent city of Rome. The tour included a panoramic bus ride through some of the city's most breathtaking and picturesque sites, a stop for a group photo at the historic Circo Massimo (see below), and then a guided tour at the impressive architectonic MAXXI Museum - where our guests will soon enjoy a final aperitivo for this trip 🍸 🥂

The closing address of the ATRIP Congress was very exciting, as it contained the transition of the ATRIP Presidency. The current President Prof. Christophe Geiger introduced our President for 2024-2026, Prof. Orit Fischman Afori. We will summarize in more detail later on. For now, we would like to give a round of applause to our Presidents for an unforgettable ATRIP Congress at Luiss Guido Carli! 👏 👏 👏

"Intellectual property can serve as a tool for shaping a sustainable society" -Roberto Pistolesi, the President of FICPI - International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys. President Pistolesi's address was given during the granting ceremony of the ATRIP Essay Competition-Award of the FICPI Prize. The award was handed out by President Pistolesi and Jens Schovsbo (ATRIP President 2020-2022). This year's winner, Lokesh Vyas, then gave a presentation about his excellent paper, titled "Whither are Global South’s Copyright Scholars: Lost in “Citation Game”?"

Our final plenary session for this ATRIP Annual Congress 2024 at Luiss Guido Carli was wonderful! The session, titled "CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND RIGHT TO REPAIR", was chaired by Graeme Dinwoodie. It featured presentations by Irene Calboli, Bernardo Calabrese, Pascale Chapdelaine, Yusuke TACHIBANA & Joanna Wisniowska. You can find some more updates and highlights from this session (as well as the entire Congress) on ATRIP's X page: https://lnkd.in/ep_AcBN9

Our first plenary session for this final day of ATRIP Rome Congress 2024 at Luiss Guido Carli was dedicated to IP and environmental/sustainability issues. The panel was chaired by Prof. Gustavo Olivieri, and featured presentations by Abbe Brown, Cristiana Sappa, Peter R. Slowinski, Nicola Lucchi, Enrico Bonadio and Giorgio Spedicato. Check our page on X for some additional live updates from this and the upcoming sessions for today! https://lnkd.in/ep_AcBN9

Our VIP Gala Dinner last night was brilliant! 🍾 🥂 🍽 Our guests enjoyed the special Roman atmosphere at Villa Blanc of Luiss Guido Carli, and a dinner speech by Cedric Manara, Director & Head of Copyright at Google!

42nd ATRIP - Teaching and Research in IP Congress in Rome: I had the privilege of sharing the results of my research on upcycling and intellectual property with the ATRIP community. The panel on "UPCYCLING, SUSTAINABILITY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY" was chaired by Ansgar Ohly and comprised several presentations that looked at the issue from different angles (trademark law, design protection and copyright law). My presentation focused on the intersection of trademark and copyright law when it comes to the upcycling of trademarked works of applied art. Thanks to ATRIP President Christophe Geiger and his team for the perfect organisation of this year's ATRIP Congress in the Eternal City at Luiss Guido Carli University. It is always a pleasure to meet so many dear colleagues from all over the world. #ip #upcycling #sdg #atrip