Analysis of the situation on the field of enforcement of intellectual property rights
Yesterday, a presentation of the Analysis of the situation on the field of enforcement intellectual property rights was organized by the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) in cooperation with the EU Intellectual Property Office at the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič, Saša Krajnc and Tilen Zonta from IPI also attended the event.
The purpose of the seminar was to present important and interesting judgements in the field of intellectual property law that were adopted between the years 2015 and 2019 in Slovenia. In the first part of the seminar, Magda Teppey from the Higher Court in Ljubljana presented the case law in the field of industrial property law, while in the second part doc. dr. Eneja Drobež, consultant at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia, talked about the judgements that were adopted in the field of copyright.
The analysis of the case law and the presentations (in Slovene) are available on the website of SIPO.
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