Conference Material

Jurisdiction & Dispute Resolution in the Internet Era:
Governance and Good Practices

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Day one: June 17, 2015

Session 1 : Conflict of laws / private international law in the Internet era: which courts shall decide Internet-related disputes?

• Jurisdiction in Internet-related intellectual property disputes (presentation)
  
  
• Jurisdiction in Internet-related intellectual property disputes (article)

  Prof. Edouard Treppoz, University of Lyon III, France

• Jurisdiction in Internet-related privacy/defamation disputes
  Dr. Michel Reymond, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva

• Panel discussion
• WIPO and Private International Law, by Dr. Eun-Joo Min, Senior Legal Counsellor, Policy and Cooperation, Building Respect for IP Division, World Intellectual Property Organization
• Hague Conference on Private International Law, by Dr. Marta Pertegás, First Secretary, Hague Conference on Private International Law

Session 2 : What alternative resolution systems for Internet-related disputes today and tomorrow?

• The implementation of the right to be forgotten by Google: issues and challenges of massive online micro-justice

  Prof. Alain Strowel, Université Catholique de Louvain/Université Saint-Louis, Brussels, Belgium

• The protection of the rights to be forgotten: lessons and perspectives from Open Data
  

  Prof. Alessandro Mantelero, Polytechnic University of Turin/Nexa Center for Internet and Society

• ADR mechanisms for Internet domain name disputes: a model to be generalized?
  

  Prof. Jacques de Werra, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva

Day two: June 18, 2015

Session 3 : What mechanisms for solving disputes in the ICT industries? The case of the licensing of Standard Essential Patents (SEP) under Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) terms

• The perspective of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU),
  

  Antoine Dore, Senior Legal Officer, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• The perspective of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute,
  

  Maïssa Bahsoun, Legal Advisor, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)

• The perspective of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center,
  

  Dr. Heike Wollgast, Senior Legal Officer, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center

• Panel discussion and
• How do European Courts look at FRAND and SEPs?,
  by Dr. Michael Fröhlich, Senior Director of EU Intellectual Property & Strategy at BlackBerry, Chairman of the AIPPI Standing Committee on Standards and Patents

Session 4 : How shall jurisdictional immunity and inviolability apply in the Internet Era?

• Immunity and inviolability of the Internet root
  

  Dr. Jovan Kurbalija, founder of Diplo Foundation, Head of the Geneva Internet Platform