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.
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Intellectual Property and the Judiciary
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Palais Universitaire, Strasbourg
Université de Strasbourg - CEIPI - Centre d'études internationales de la propriété intellectuelle
Study the role of the judiciary in the elaboration and implementation of IP law.
Look at the way IP is applied in different court systems, be it in general courts, in specialized IP courts and quasi-judicial bodies as well as in specialized non-IP courts
Draw conclusions on how to ideally design courts in the future so that they can deal with IP in a balanced and most efficient manner/way
Draw conclusions on how to best train the judiciary of an IP court.
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)
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.
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.
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.