09:00-09:30

WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS

Dr. Alexander Korchagin, General Director, Rospatent and Peter B. Necarsulmer, President, CIPR

09:30-10:30

PANEL #1

NEW RULES AND REGULATIONS CONCERNING RECOGNITION OF WELL-KNOWN TRADEMARKS

Panelist: Valentina Orlova, Deputy Head of International Department, Rospatent and Yuri V. Kononenko, Chairman, Rospatent Supreme Patent Chamber and Alla Bolsova, Judge, Moscow Court of Arbitration

Moderator: Valery Guerman, President, Association of Russian Patent Attorneys

PANEL #2

PROTECTION OF WELL-KNOWN TRADEMARKS: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Panelists: Janet Hoffman, Co-Counsel CIPR and Partner, Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu; Denis Croze, Head, Trademark Law Section, WIPO; Evgeny Arievich, Partner, Baker & McKenzie

Moderator: Peter B. Necarsulmer, President, CIPR

11:30-12:00

COFFEE BREAK

12:00-13:00

PANEL #3

PROVING STATUS AS A WELL-KNOWN BRAND: EVIDENCE AND SURVEY RESEARCH

Yuri Averin, Professor, Moscow State University (MGU); Janet Hoffman, Co-Counsel CIPR and Partner, Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu; Elena Konyushenko, Member of Supreme Patent Chamber and Tatiana Perova, Member of Supreme Patent Chamber

13:15-14:45

LUNCH

PANEL #4

SUCCESSFUL CASE STUDIES

Moderator: Alexander Shelemekh, Vice President, CIPR (Russia)

Reresentatives from URALMASH, YAVA, IZVESTIA

16:15-16:30

CLOSING

Dr. Alexander Korchagin, General Director, Rospatent and
Peter B. Necarsulmer, President, CIPR

16:30-18:30

RECEPTION

LOCATION:

RUSSIAN FEDERATION AGENCY ON PATENTS & TRADEMARKS (ROSPATENT)
CONFERENCE HALL
26, Berezhkovskaya Nab., Bld. 1