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Post-conference workshop
Tuesday 6 th December 2005
Intellectual Property and the Pharmaceutical Industry – Antitrust, Protection and Enforcement
Led by Howrey
08:30 Delegate registration and coffee
09:00 Commencement of workshop
Session One: Antitrust / IP / Pharma
- Patent enforcement and misuse/dominance
- The Federal Circuit decision re: Philips/Princo (September 2005)
- European Commission re: AstraZeneca (15 June 2005) and Schering Plough
Session Two: Pharma IP (over) protection and dangers
- Formulation patents
- Maintaining invalid patents
- Universal pharma trademarks and the latest from the ECJ re: trademarks
- Misleading advertising
Session Three: Pharma / IP enforcement strategies
- Newest case law on cross border injunction (Sanquin/Diamed)
- The generics strategy
- SPC's (ECJ of April 21, 2005; Chiron-Hoffmann La Roche issues)
- Transatlantic dangers and opportunities
- Parallel import and the new EU members
12:00 Close of workshop
The workshop will be led by Willem Hoyng and the following faculty:
Trevor Soames, Marina Cousté, François Jonquères, Carl de Meyer, Isabel Davies, Bart van den Broek, Carreen Shannon, Richard Willoughby and David Stone
About the workshop leader
 Willem Hoyng is a partner in Howrey’s Amsterdam office. He specializes in advising on European patent strategy and in coordinating and conducting European patent litigation. In addition, his practice consists of IP litigation, International litigation in general, Dutch Supreme Court litigation, ECJ litigation and EPO oppositions. Willem has obtained landmark decisions in the Dutch Supreme Court and among others, Vredo/Veenhuis, BAT/Doucal and Van Bentum/Kool. Before the European Court of Justice, he has acted among others as counsel for Windsurfing International, Ballantine's and Philips in the landmark cases Windsurfing International vs. the Commission, Ballantine's vs. Loendersloot and Philips vs. Remington. Willem is patent counsel to all major Dutch multinationals and many major foreign corporations, including major pharmaceutical and biotech companies.
Willem is also professor of intellectual property law at the University of Tilburg. Among others, he is member of the government advisory committee on patents, member of the examination committee for patent attorneys and President of Dutch Bar advisory committee on IP matters.
Willem has written Repair and the law of Patents and Dutch Business Law and numerous articles in the field of Intellectual Property. In 2002 he was awarded the Wim Mak award for his article on the use of market surveys in trademark litigation.
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