Intellectual Property in Dispute Resolution Bodies of the World Trade Organization (WTO)

M. Alejandro Jara

Counsel at King and Spalding law firm (Switzerland) Alejandro Jara was born in 1949 in Santiago, Chile. He obtained his law degree from the University of Chile in 1973. He pursued graduate studies at the Law School, University of California at Berkeley (1975–1976). In 1976, he joined the Foreign Service of Chile where he specialized in international economic relations. He served in the Delegation of Chile to the GATT in Geneva (1979–1984) and was seconded to the Economic System for Latin America (SELA) in Caracas as Coordinator for Trade Policy Affairs. He was appointed Director for Bilateral Economic Affairs (1993–1994), as well as Director for Multilateral Economic Affairs (1994– 1999). From 1996 to 1997, he also served as Chile’s Senior Official to APEC. At the same period, he was deputy Chief negotiator for the Chile-Canada Free Trade Agreement. From 1997 to 1998, he was Chief Negotiator for the Chile-Mexico Free Trade Agreement. In July 1999, he was designated Director General for International Economic Relations. In June 2000, he was appointed as Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Chile to the World Trade Organization in Geneva. In 2001, he served as Chairperson of the Committee on Trade and Environment of the WTO. Between 2002 and 2005, he was Chairman of the Negotiating Group of Trade in Services of the WTO. From 2005 to 2013, he has served as Deputy Director General of the WTO. In October 2013, he joined the King & Spalding LLP (Geneva) as Senior Counsel.

Chairman: Xavier Seuba, Senior Lecturer and Researcher at CEIPI (France)

Intellectual Property in Dispute Resolution Bodies of the World Trade Organization (WTO)

M. Roger Kampf

Counsellor of the Intellectual Property Division of the at WTO (Switzerland) Roger Kampf is from Hamburg, Germany. He joined the World Trade Organization in May 2004 and works as Counsellor in the Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division. He is responsible for the Secretariat's work in the area of TRIPS and public health and enforcement, as well as for technical assistance in relation to intellectual property. He is currently also acting as the TRIPS Council Secretary. Mr. Kampf previously worked for the European Commission at its headquarters in Brussels and at the permanent representation in Geneva, where he was responsible for intellectual property issues in WTO and WIPO, as well as for government procurement, from 1998 to 2004. Prior to this, he was involved in negotiations on financial services under the GATS Agreement, and also worked as an assistant in public law and European Communities law at the University of Hamburg. Mr. Kampf holds a law degree from the University of Hamburg and a degree in public administration from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Paris. He has published on various aspects of EC and WTO law.

Intellectual Property in Dispute Resolution Bodies of the World Trade Organization (WTO)

M. Daniel Gervais

Professor of Law and Director of Intellectual Property Program of the School of Law at Vanderbilt University (USA) Daniel Gervais focuses on international intellectual property law, having spent 10 years researching and addressing policy issues on behalf of the World Trade Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers, the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations, and Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. He is the author of The TRIPS Agreement: Drafting History and Analysis, a leading guide to the treaty that governs international intellectual property rights. Before joining Vanderbilt Law School in 2008, Professor Gervais was acting dean of the Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa, where he also served as vice-dean for research and received funding for his research from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. Before entering the academy, he practiced law with Clark Woods and as a partner with the technology law firm BCF in Montreal. He also served as a consultant and legal officer at the WTO, as head of the Copyright Projects section of the WIPO, and as vice-president of international relations at CCC. In addition, he was a consultant with the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. He has been a visiting professor at numerous international universities, a visiting scholar at Stanford Law School, and is a visiting lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. In 2012, he was the Gide Loyrette Nouel Visiting Chair at Sciences Po Law School in Paris. He is editorin- chief of the peer-reviewed Journal of World Intellectual Property and editor of tripsagreement.net. In 2012, he was the first North American law professor admitted to the Academy of Europe. He is a member of the American Law Institute.

Questions and Discussion

M. Xavier Seuba

Closing

M. Christophe Geiger

Professeur à l’Université de Strasbourg et Directeur général du CEIPI. Professor, Director General and Director of the Research Department of the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) at the University of Strasbourg (France) Christophe Geiger is Professor of Law, Director General and Director of the Research Department of the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) at the University of Strasbourg (France). In addition, he is affiliated senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich (Germany) as well as Spangenberg Fellow at the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology & the Arts, Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland (US), and has been invited to teach as visiting professor in several universities. He specializes in national, European, international and comparative intellectual property law, has drafted reports for the European institutions and acts as external expert for the European Parliament and the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM). He is also General Editor of the Collection of the CEIPI published by LexisNexis, co-editor of the EIPIN series published by Edward Elgar, co-editor of the CEIPI-ICTSD Publication Series on “Global Perspectives and Challenges for the Intellectual Property System” and member of the editorial board of several journals on IP law. He has published numerous articles as well as authored and edited many volumes in this field, the most recent being “Criminal Enforcement of Intellectual Property: A Handbook of Contemporary Research” (2012), “Constructing European Intellectual Property: Achievements and New Perspectives” (2013), “Research Handbook on Human Rights and Intellectual Property” (2015) with Edward Elgar, and “What Patent Law for the European Union?” (2013), “The Contribution of Case Law to the Construction of Intellectual Property in Europe” (2013, in French); “Intellectual Property Law in a Globalized World” (with Caroline Rodà, 2014), with LexisNexis.

M. Craig Nard

Craig Allen Nard, Galen J. Roush Professor of Law and Director of the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology & the Arts at the School of Law of Case Western Reserve University (United States) Nard is the Galen J. Roush Professor of Law and Director of the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology & the Arts at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the World Intellectual Property Organization Academy in Torino, Italy and served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Strasbourg’s Centre d’Études Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle. Mr. Nard is widely Northwestern Law Review, Supreme Court Economic Review, Boston University Law Review, and the Review of Law and Economics. published in the area of patent law, with scholarly articles appearing in many prominent law journals, including Georgetown Law Journal, He is also the author of The Law of Patents (3rd ed, Wolters Kluwer 2014), and a co-author of The Law of Intellectual Property (4th ed, Wolters Kluwer). Prior to entering the legal academy, Mr. Nard clerked for the Honorable Giles S. Rich and Helen W. Nies of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. and, before that, was a patent litigator in Dallas, Texas and Julius Silver Fellow in law and technology at Columbia University School of Law. He is a member of the Texas bar, and is licensed to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office.