CLE Preview: BREXIT. What You Now Need to Know to Protect and Enforce Your IP Rights in the EU and UK Up to Date Guidance Following the UK's Anticipated Exit from the EU on 29 March 2019
On Thursday, April 11, from 10:15 to 11:45 at the 34th Annual ABA Intellectual Property Spring Conference, the speakers will discuss protecting and enforcing IP rights in the EU and UK following the UK’s anticipated exit from the European Union. While the anticipated UK was expected to occur on March 29, 2019, the EU agreed to postpone the date. The EU agreed to extend the Brexit deadline to April 12, 2019. If Parliament approves a Brexit deal, then Brexit will occur on May 22, 2019.
Despite unanticipated changes in the timeline of Brexit, speculation about the fate of trademarks, copyrights, registered designs, geographical indications and other IP rights in the past remains as the UK prepares to depart the EU. The program will explore the agreements that are in place and at the unresolved questions regarding the protection and enforcement of EU-based IP rights that have formerly been protected in the UK, and provide practical tips how to deal with them in daily practice.
Law Student Reporters Ahkianne Wanliss, a third-year law student at Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, and Raven Robertson, a law student at Northern Illinois University will cover this CLE Program.
If you can’t make it to the 34th Annual ABA Intellectual Property Law Section Spring Conference this year, you can still follow all the action by following the tweets and blog entries of the ABA-IPL’s Law Student Reporters, who will be covering all the events of the conference on Twitter.
Speakers:
· Rupert Knights, Dolleymores Watford, United Kingdom
· Joanna Pitkin, Ridout & Maybee LLP, Toronto, ON Canada