Programme (subject to changes)

(as of April 27, 2010)

Wednesday, 5 May 2010

Opening
09:00 / Juridicum, top floor

Chaired by Erich Schweighofer

Welcome Address from the Faculty of Law
Alina Lengauer, Vice Dean

Survival at KnowRight2010
Erich Schweighofer, Jens Gaster, Andreas Wiebe & Peter Paul Sint

Invited talk
09:10 -10:00 / Juridicum, top floor

Chaired by Erich Schweighofer

New developments in the protection of knowledge rights in Europe
Jens Gaster

Break (tea, coffee, air etc.)
10:00-10:30

Session 1A - Status and reform of the European Patent System
10:30-12:00 / Juridicum, top floor

Chaired by Michal Du Vall

European and EU Patent Court
Jens Gaster

Sustainable Patent Reform: The "Make Polluters Pay" Approach
Georg Jakob, Hartmut Pilch

Session 1B - Google and knowledge rights
10:30-12:00 / Juridicum, seminar room 62

Chaired by Albrecht Haller

Total Information Outsourcing: The Pitfalls of Software as a Service
Jean-Paul Smets, Hartmut Pilch

It's the ad-text, stupid - Conclusions Drawn From The ECJ's Google France Ruling
Maximilian Schubert

Session 1C - IT security
10:30-12:00 / Juridicum, seminar room 42

Chaired by Reinhard Riedl

Cyber-Security: Threats, Measures, Instruments, Future Dimensions
Otto Hellwig

The emerging threat of large-scale spam campaigns via social networking sites
Markus Huber

Lunch break
12:00-13:30

Session 2A - Patents I
13:30-15:00 / Juridicum, top floor

Chaired by Otto Hellwig

Patents on Software and Patents on Life: Recent Developements
Georg Jakob

Software Patents: American Law as an Example?
Reinier Bakels

Business Methods as Algorithms: The Bilski Patent Case and its Impact
Peter Gerwinsk

Session 2B - Copyright I
13:30-15:00 / Juridicum, seminar room 62

Chaired by Primavera De Filippi

Protecting music, not markets: The conflict between copyright collecting societies and single market aims
Benjamin Farrand

New Media Art and Traditional Copyright
Leonhard Reis

The Digital Agenda: A Software Industry Perspective
Francisco Mingorance

Session 2B - Legal information and open access
13:30-15:00 / Juridicum, seminar room 42

Chaired by Ahti Saarenpää

Access to Legal Information: Legal Network “Ley Chile”
Patricia Reyes

What should be published? An Analysis of Rules on Official Journals in Europe
Anton Geist, Erich Schweighofer

Break (tea, coffee, air etc.)
15:00-15:30

Session 3A - Patents II
15:30-17:00 / Juridicum, top floor

Chaired by Peter Paul Sint

Patent pools and competition law
Rafal Sikorski

Abuse of patents and competition law
Michal Du Vall

What's wrong with the United Patent Litigation System (UPLS)?
Benjamin Henrion

Overhauling the Patent System in the US and the EU
Peter Gerwinski

Session 3B - Copyright II
15:30- 17:00 / Juridicum, seminar room 42

Chaired by Johanna Tomberg

Ontologies of Intellectual Property
Primavera De Filippi

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - Legislation for Billions of People, Made Behind Closed Doors
Ante Wessels

Roundtable - Collecting the incentives for authors: What ist the best regime?
17:30-19:00 / Juridcum, top floor

Chaired by Erich Schweighofer

Conference Heuriger
19:30-19:00

Thursday, 6 May 2010

Session 4A - Privacy and data protection
09:00-10:30 / Juridicum, top floor

Chaired by Wolfram Proksch

The long roads that data and data protection travel in the era of information government
Ahti Saarenpää

Implementation of the Data Retention Directive in Germany
Andreas Lehner

Data protection and on-line piracy
Francisco Mingorance

Session 4B - Patent search
09:00-10:30 / Juridicum, seminar room 62

Chaired by Anton Geist

Evaluation campaigns in patent retrieval at IRF
Florina Piroi

Query expansion for patent retrieval using domain specific thesauri
Wolfgang Tannebaum

Session 4C - Long-term preservation of digital materials
09:00-10:30 / Juridicum, seminar room 42

Chaired by Andreas Wiebe

Long-term Archiving - The Change of Paradigm and its Consequences
Reinhard Riedl

Legal Issues of Long-Term Preservation of Digital Materials
Erich Schweighofer, Andreas Rauber

Break (tea, coffee, air etc.)
10:30-11:00

Session 5A - Privacy and Data Retention Directive
11:00-12:30 / Juridicum, top floor

Chaired by Gunter Ertl

European Citizens Initiative Privacy: Principal Aspects
Gerald Futschek

European Citizens Initiative Privacy: Legal Aspects
Wolfram Proksch

Session 5B - Patents and developing countries
09:00-10:30 / Juridicum, seminar room 62

Chaired by Benajmin Farrand

Intellectual Property Rights - Innovation vs. Ecological and Socio-Economic Rights of South Africans
Pieter Brits

Patents on genetically modified seeds/plants and their impact on food security in developing countries
Claudia Fricke

Session 5C - Open access to information
09:00-10:30 / Juridicum, seminar room 62

Chaired by Patricia Reyes

Access Rights to Information
Lothar Hofmann

Legal quality in Guardianship Services
Johanna Tomberg

Closing session
12:30-13:00 / Juridicum, top floor

Chaired Jens Gaster

Concluding remarks
Andreas Wiebe