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15 – 18 March 2010
Thomas Cottier, World Trade Institute
Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
This course, the first of a two week module on the TRIPS agreement and intellectual property rights in the world trading system, explores the general rules of the TRIPS Agreement as well as its negotiating history and interpretation up to the present. It offers an introduction into the main economic principles surrounding the protection of intellectual property. This course also focuses on the international rules applicable to industrial property and the specifics of this sub-field of intellectual property rights. Finally it gives an introduction to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), its relationship to the WTO and its rules on intellectual property, as well as the registration and enforcement of intellectual property rights. Of interest to lawyers and government officials working on TRIPS and intellectual property issues.
Lecturers:
Prof. Thomas Cottier, Managing Director of the World Trade Institute, is Professor of European and International Economic Law at the University of Bern and Director of the Institute of European and International Economic Law. He directs the national research programme on trade law and policy (NCCR International Trade Regulation: From Fragmentation to Coherence) located at the WTI. He is an associate editor of several journals. He was a visiting professor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and also currently teaches at the Europa Institut Saarbrücken, Germany, and at Wuhan University, China. He was a member of the Swiss National Research Council from 1997-2004 and served on the board of the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) Rome during the same period. He served the Baker & McKenzie law firm as Of Counsel from 1998 to 2005.
Sacha Wunsch-Vincent (French-German) is economist at the Science, Technology and Industry Directorate of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Economics, in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was a Swiss National Science Fellow at the Berkeley Centre for Law & Technology (University of California). He has published and worked on newer generation trade and technology issues and has served as a consultant with a number of institutions such as the UN ICT Task Force, the World Bank, and the German Parliament. He teaches international trade at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po) and at the World Bank Institute. Sacha holds a Masters of International Economics (University of Maastricht) and completed a PhD on WTO issues (University of St. Gallen).
Cost: CHF 1'500.- (2’700 together with II/12 IPR II)
Registration date: 8 March 2010
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Master Programme (MILE) 
