Monday Miscellany

Temperatures are dropping – but not the weekly summary of events and opportunities that The IPKat suggests to you!

The British group of UNION IP (Union of European Practitioners in Intellectual Property) is organising a meeting with The Honourable Mr Justice Meade. The meeting will take place in London, at the Royal Overseas League on Thursday 8 December from 6pm. For more information and to register for the meeting, please click here.

ETH Zurich, through its Center for Law & Economics, is looking for fellows & PhD students interested in applying empirical and experimental methods in the fields of intellectual property, data protection, antitrust law, and internet law. Applicants can apply via the following link, or register for the CLE hiring event here by today.

The Organization for an International Geographical Indications Network (oriGIn) has posted new job and training opportunities in the GI sector. Open roles are for “Chargé(e) de mission Efficacité énergétique (Comité Champagne)” or for “Stagiaire Chargé de déploiement de la Viticulture Durable en Champagne” (Comité Champagne) or for “Chargé(e) de mission – Auditeur (trice)” (Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac) as well as an Internship offer “MOVING Project – Master thesis: Foresight analysis of the value chain of Tête de Moine PDO cheese” (Origin for Sustainability) or for an Internship offer – “Value chain study (origin for Sustainability)“. For more information on all of the above, click here.

The EU Commission is conducting an evaluation of the implementation of the EU Trade Mark Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2017/1001). The purpose of this evaluation is to assess the implementation of the Regulation, the legal framework for cooperation between the EUIPO and the intellectual property offices of the Member States, including the Benelux Office, and the work of the EUIPO. With this call for evidence, the Commission is consulting the general public and stakeholders. The period for feedback runs from 7 November 2022 to 5 December 2022. More information on the initiatives can be found here. You can give feedback here.