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BULGARIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY |
The International Trademark Association in co-operation with the Bulgarian Patent Office and the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry are holding a roundtable in Sofia, Bulgaria on September 2, 2003. The topics will include trademark issues and more specifically the upcoming harmonization of the Bulgarian trademark law with the European Union legal standards.
INTA is an international organization, based in the United States, with 4,200 member companies and firms from more than 160 countries. It represents one of the major voices in the world of intellectual property.
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INTA Government Seminar
September 2, 2003
Chamber of Commerce, 42 Parchevich Str., 1058, Sofia, Bulgaria
In Cooperation with the Bulgarian Trademark and Patent Office and the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00-09:15 | Welcome by Tzonka Taushanova, Commissioner of the Bulgarian Trademark and Patent
Office Introduction by Elena Bojinova, Bojinov & Bojinov Ltd. Patent, Trademark & Law Offices, Sofia, Bulgaria |
- Part I - Moderator: Nicolai von Funer, von Funer Ebbinghaus Finck Hano, Munich, Germany |
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| 09:15 - 10:45 | Trademark examination - absolute and relative grounds for refusal Achim Bender, Judge at the German Federal Patent Court and Member of the Third Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market, Alicante, Spain |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Discussion |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Domain Names Petter Rindforth, Partner of Groth & Co. KB, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Discussion |
| 12:45 - 13.45 | Lunch Break – Keynote speaker to be confirmed |
- Part II - Moderator: Gordana Pavlovic, Cabinet Pavlovic, Brussels (Belgium) and Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro) |
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| 13:45 - 14:45 | Geographical Indications Dr. Burkhart Goebel, Partner, Lovells, Hamburg, Germany |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Discussion |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Well-known trademarks and exhaustion of trademark rights Gerhard Bauer, Head of the Trademarks Department of DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Discussion |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Judge Alexey Ivanov, Bulgarian Appellate Court |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Cocktail Reception |
1 September 2003
