TRADE SECRETS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
International IP Conference
17 October 2019, Warsaw
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
9.00
Welcome
Paweł Podrecki, Director of the Centre for Legal Studies on New Technologies, Polish Academy of Sciences
Piotr Czaplicki, Director of the Patent Examination Department, Polish Patent Office
Żaneta Pacud, Rafał Sikorski, Society of Intellectual Property and Competition Law
9.15 – 10.30
Panel 1. – Introduction into trade secret protection
chair: Żaneta Pacud, Institute of Law Studies PAS
Christoph Ann, Technical University of Munich, Trade secrets protection – why protect, how and by whom? Introduction into trade secrets law
Sharon Sandeen, Mitchell Hamline School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, Mapping Trade Secret Scholarship: The Past, Present, and Future
10.30 – 11.00 coffee break
11.00 – 12.00
Panel 2. – Enforcement of trade secrets
chair: Rafał Sikorski, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Tanya Aplin, Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, The limits of EU trade secret protection
Martin Husovec, University of Tilburg, (Un)Fair Remedies in Trade Secrecy Law
12.00 – 12.20 short coffee break
12.20 – 13.50
Panel 3. – Trade secrets protection and employee mobility
chair: Lavinia Brancusi, Institute of Law Studies, PAS
Magdalena Kolasa, Munich, Cocktails on the rocks. The challenges of enforcing trade secrets against departed employees from a comparative perspective
Konrad Mazur, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, When he had left work, problems began – a brief review of the Polish case law on disputes between the employer and employee
Arpan Banerjee, UNSW, Sydney; Jindal Law School, India, Business Offshoring and the Protection of Trade Secrets and Confidential Information in India
13.50 – 14.50 lunch
14.50 – 15.50
Panel 4. – Trade secrets in the data economy
chair: Łukasz Żelechowski, University of Warsaw
Wojciech Biernacki, Poznań, Applicability of the EU trade secret protection to sensor data
Laura Zoboli, Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, Warsaw, Algorithms: balancing trade secrecy and transparency
15.50– 16.10 short coffee break
16.10 – 17.40
Panel 5. – Trade secrets in regulatory and judicial procedures
chair: Anna Tischner, Jagiellonian University
Peter Slowinski, Max-Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Trade Secrets in Judicial and Mediation Procedures – The tension between openness and secrecy
Juan Antonio Vives Vallés, University of Balearic Islands, Palma, Trade Secrets and Protected Variety Rights
Anna Popowicz – Pazdej, University of Wrocław, Protection of trade secrets as an exception to the general rule of transparency in Public procurement law from the perspective of both the European and national law
17.40
Conference closing
