Intellectual property – IP – contributes enormously to economies. Dozens of industries across economy rely on the adequate enforcement of their patents, trademarks, and copyrights, while consumers use IP to ensure they are purchasing safe, guaranteed products. IP rights are worth protecting. How to make sure that all players in business world -investors, entrepreneurs, licensors, licensees, end-users – will feel comfortable with Slovenia’s IP environment.

Organized by the AmCham IP Committee. Special thanks to:

Tjaša Burnik, Jana Jovanovska, Jaka Repanšek, Urban Vrtačnik

Guest speakers:

dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič, LL.M., LL.M., Director of the Intellectual Property Institute – IP and New Technologies; Does Legislation Meet the Progress in Fields of New Technologies

Uroš Čadež , founder of XVIDA – IP in Start-Up Companies; Use of the Platforms (Crowd Funding)

Tanja Fajon, Member of the European Parliament – EU Politics and Intellectual Property: Respecting different interests in policy making

Rok Koren, Legal Counsel, BSA The Software Alliance, Protection of IP Rights in Public Procurrement; Importance of Licensing in Corporate Contractual Relations

Luka Novak, MBA, Director, Slovenian Intellectual Property Office – Latest Developments in IP rights and the Role of SIPO: Unitary Patent/EU patent, European Patent Court, Piracy, Patent Trolls

Max Oker-Blom, PhD in Economics and LL.Lic., member of ECTA Council and former President – European Communities Trade Mark Association – Latest trends in EU Intellectual Property: administrative barriers as a burden for a real value of IP within companies; the role of decision makers and the management

mag. Dušan Pšeničnik, Director General, Ministry of Economic Development and Technology – The Importance of IP for the EU Single Market, Challenges and Open Issues

Urban Vrtačnik, Member of the AmCham IP Committee – IP Protection and Scope of IP Rights; Security, Predictability, Value

Agenda:

08.00 – 9.30 AmCham Business Breakfast – special invitation only

10.30 – 10.35 Opening remarks mag. Ajša Vodnik, Executive Director, AmCham Slovenia

10.35 – 10.45 Presentation of AmCham IP Position Paper, Tjaša Burnik and Jaka Repanšek, co-chairs of the AmCham IP Committee

10.45 – 11.25 Keynote speech Max Oker-Blom, PhD in Economics and LL.Lic., member of ECTA Council and former President – European Communities Trade Mark Association

11.25 – 12.00 Discussion within groups

12.00-13.00 Moderated debate with guest speakers

13.15 Closing remarks

Moderators: Tjaša Burnik and Jaka Repanšek, co-chairs of the AmCham IP Committee and Urban Vrtačnik, member of the AmCham IP Committee.