Protection of Intellectual Property for Plant Innovation and Distinctive Signs of Quality in Europe in 2023

May 31 and June 1, 2023. Alicante

The International Congress "Protection of Intellectual Property for Plant Innovation and Distinctive Signs of Quality in Europe in 2023" will be held on May 31 and June 1, organized by the Department of Commercial Law and Procedural Law of the University of Alicante . This event will have the presence of the main institutions, researchers, associations and law firms specialized in this matter in order to provide information and debate on intellectual property for plant innovation.

Besides, BIOVEGEN will participate on May 31 at 4:30 p.m. in panel II: Plant innovation and sustainability.

PROGRAM

3:00 p.m. Inauguration of International Congress: “Protection of Intellectual Property for Plant Innovation and Distinctive Signs of Quality in Europe in 2023”

Prof. Dr. Maribel Beltrán Rico. Director of the Secretariat of Research Structures.
Prof. Dr. Esperanza Gallego Sánchez. Professor of Commercial Law. Director of the Department of Commercial and Procedural Law. University of Alicante.
Mrs. Inmaculada Redondo. Director of the OEPM Distinctive Signs Department.
Mrs. Margarida Matias, Vogal Conselho Diretivo Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial PT.

3:30 p.m. PANEL I: Recent jurisprudence in the system of protection of plant variety rights of the European Union

Address: Prof. Dr. Mercedes Curto Polo. Professor of Commercial Law at UNED
They intervene: Mrs. Montserrat García-Monco Fuente. Head of the Legal and Governance Affairs Unit of the OCVV; Prof. Dr. Altea Asensi Merás. Contracted Professor Doctor of the UA; Mr. Pedro Tent Alonso. Partner responsible for the Levante IP area of Garrigues.

4:30 p.m. PANEL II: Plant innovation and sustainability

Address: By. Dr. Pilar Iñiguez Ortega. Full Professor of Commercial Law at the UA.
They intervene: Elena Saenz García-Baquero. ANOVE Director, Gonzaga Ruiz de Gauna. BIOVEGEN Manager, Javier Bernabéu Durá. Manager Sakata Seed Iberica.

Break-Coffee

5:45 p.m. PANEL III: Challenges of regulations for the protection of plant varieties

Address: Prof. Dr. Ascensión Gallego Corcoles. Full Professor of Commercial Law, UCLM.
They intervene: Mrs. Yolanda Huerta-Casado. Legal Counsel and Director of Training and Assistance of UPOV; Mrs. Marisa Aranda, EUIPO Legal Department; Mr. José Antonio Sobrino Maté. Deputy Director General of Agricultural Production Means and OEVV – Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

18:45 h. Presentation of communications

7:30 p.m. Protection of quality and prestige through designations of origin:

The DOP Tequila by Mr. José Torres Díaz Representative of the Tequila Regulatory Council and the PGI Jijona and Turrón de Alicante by Mr. Federico Moncunill. General Secretary, Regulatory Council IGP Jijona and IGP Turrón de Alicante (Followed by the Tasting of the product).

7:50 p.m. Cocktail-Dinner