10.00 - 10.15

Welcoming remarks by a representative of the Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

10.15 - 11.00

Item 1: Overview: Applicable Law, Jurisdiction and Enforcement

Speakers:

• Professor Masato Dogauchi, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, Tokyo
• Professor Graeme Austin, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, New Zealand

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee break

11.30 - 13.00

Item 2: Electronic Commerce: Emerging Issues In Private International Law and the Role to Be Played by Alternative Dispute Resolution

Speakers:

• Dean Henry H. Perritt, Jr., Vice President and Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, United States of America
• Mr. Francis Gurry, Assistant Director General and Director, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center

13.00 - 15.00

Lunch break

15.00 - 16.00

Item 3: Current International Initiatives

Moderator:

• Mr. David Bennett, Solicitor General of Australia, Government of Australia, 
  Barton A.C.T.

Speakers:

• Mr. Vincenzo Scordamaglia, Honorary Director General, Council of the European Union, Athens
• Professor Rochelle. C. Dreyfuss, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, United States of America
• Professor Catherine Kessedjian, Université de Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Paris, former Deputy Secretary General, the Hague Conference on Private International Law

16.30 - 17.00

Coffee break

17.00 - 17.30

Item 3: Current International Initiatives (continued)

17.30 - 18.00

Discussion

18.00

Reception

Wednesday, January 31, 2001

09.30 - 10.45

Item 4: Issues of Copyright and Related Rights

Moderator:

• Mr. Jørgen Blomqvist, Director, Copyright Law Division, WIPO

Speaker:

• Professor André Lucas, Faculté de droit et des sciences politiques, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France

10.45 - 11.15

Coffee break

11.15 - 12.30

Item 5: Issues of Industrial Property (Patent and Trademark Law)

Moderators:

• Mr.  Philippe Baechtold, Head, Patent Law Section, Industrial Property Law Division, WIPO
• Mr Denis Croze, Head, Trademark Law Section, Industrial Property Law Division, WIPO

Speakers:

• Dr. Fritz Blumer, Homburger Rechtsanwälte, Zurich, Switzerland
• Professor Graeme Dinwoodie, Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, United States of America

12.30 - 14.00

Lunch break

14.00 - 16.00

Item 6: Panel Discussion on Private International Law Aspects of Intellectual Property Protection

Moderator:

• Mr. Shozo Uemura, Deputy Director General, Sector for Progressive Development of International Intellectual Property Law, WIPO

Panelists:

• Professor William Cornish, Faculty of Law, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Dr. Mihály Ficsor, Director, Center for Information Technology and Intellectual Property, Budapest
• Professor Jérôme Huet, Université de Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Paris
• Professor Hossam Loutfi, Beni Sweif University, Egypt
• Dr. Ng Siew Kuan, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Dr. Horacio Rangel-Ortiz, Uhthoff, Gómez Vega & Uhthoff, S.C., Mexico, D.F.
• Professor Coenraad Visser, Department of Mercantile Law, Faculty of Law, University of South Africa, Pretoria

16.00 - 16.30

Coffee break

16.30 - 18.00

Item 7: Practical Implications for Intellectual Property Business and Users

Moderator:

• Mr. Masanobu Katoh, Chairman of the Board, Internet Law and Policy Forum, Fujitsu Ltd. Washington, D.C.

Panelists:

• Mr. James Love, Consumer Project on Technology, Washington, D.C.
• Mrs. Maria Martin-Prat, Director, Legal Policy, International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), London
• Mr. Marc Pearl, Shaw Pittman, Washington, D.C.
• Ms. Shira Perlmutter, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property Policy, Time Warner, Inc., New York, United States of America
• Professor Constant J.J.C. van Nispen, International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI), The Hague

18.00

Closing of Forum