On the occasion of the World Intellectual Property Day 2019, the Patent Information Centre of the TU Dresden (PIZ) is again organising a colloquium as part of a joint event of the Saxon patent information centres in Leipzig (09.04.2019), Chemnitz (11.04.2019) and Dresden (10.04.2019) on the topic "The EU Trademark Law Reform - Implications for Germany".

The World Intellectual Property Day is an opportunity to highlight the role of intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, designs, copyrights) in promoting innovation and creativity. A balanced IP system recognises and rewards inventors and creators for their work and ensures that society benefits from their creativity and ingenuity.

IP rights provide an opportunity for researchers, inventors, companies, designers, artists and others to legally protect their innovative and creative results and make a commercial profit out of them. Only if a work meets certain defined criteria will it be eligible for IP protection. A technology must be new, not obvious and useful if it is to be patented. In addition, an inventor is obliged to publish information about his invention so that others can build on the technology to obtain a patent.

This year, the focus will be on the trademark right in the light of current events. On the basis of the revised EU Trademark Law Directive 2015/2436 of 16 December 2015 (MRL), the Trademark Law Modernisation Act (MaMoG) came into force in Germany on 14 January 2019 and with it the amendment of the Trademark Law (MarkenG) to implement the MRL. This is intended to transpose the requirements of the European Trademark Directive into German law.

The presentations at the colloquium will explain how this modernisation of trademark law will have a concrete impact on trademark law in Germany and on searches in trademark databases. "In discussions, the participants should also have the opportunity to learn the concrete consequences from the lecturers, who are composed of lawyers, trademark examiners and a managing director of a trademark database provider," says Matthias Knöbel, head of the Dresden Patent Information Centre. This year, the subject of trademarks as target groups will be addressed in particular to management personnel and employees of patent departments of small and medium-sized enterprises, start-ups, self-employed persons and patent and attorneys-at-law.

Please contact us if you have any questions:
Matthias Knöbel
Phone: 0351 463-32791
fax: 0351 463-37136

Here you will find the registration for the colloquium on 10 April 2019 and further information.