Call for Papers: ECTA Award 2020: Submit by March 1

About ECTA

ECTA, the European Communities Trade Mark Association, is a non-governmental association that unites members coming from all European Union Member States with associate members from all over the world.

About the Award

European Communities Trade Mark Association is organising the ECTA Award 2020. 

The purpose is to grant an Award to an individual who has written an article or an essay of importance for the development of European trademark law, design law, copyright law or geographical indications law. It is intended to present the Award in Copenhagen during the ECTA 39th Annual Conference.

Award Criteria

Many jurisdictions in Europe have varying traditions of intellectual property law that are often distinctively associated with and shaped by a variety of country-specific factors, including different legal frameworks, especially with regard to procedural law, regulatory and economic circumstances of those countries, among others.

The diverse character and makeup of its international membership and its strong link to many European Institutions makes ECTA uniquely suited among associations to foster and encourage further academic research and examination of intellectual property law in different European countries.

In support of this goal, ECTA considered the merits associated with such an Award and believes the following criteria for the ECTA AWARD are most consistent with the ECTA mission.

Student Category

To qualify for this award, the trademark lawyer student and/or non-lawyer trademark student must:

• be enrolled as either part-time or graduate student in law or an equivalent or related subject.
• write a substantive paper on European Trademark law, Design law, Copyright law, Geographical Indications law (i.e. related for instance to cross border issues etc.).

Such paper:

• maybe published, wherein any publication date may not be older than two years prior to the deadline to submit papers;
• must contain original thoughts of the author and can be co-authored;
• must be written in English or, if the paper is written in any other European official language, must be translated into English.

Professional Category

• To qualify for this award, the trademark lawyer and/or non-lawyer trademark practitioner must:
• not be a student;
• write a substantive paper on European Trademark law, Design law, Copyright law, Geographical Indications law (i.e. related for instance to cross border issues etc.).

Such paper:

• must be published, wherein any publication date may not be older than two years prior to the deadline to submit papers;
• must contain original thoughts of the author and can be co-authored;
• must be written in English or, if the paper is written in any other European official language, must be translated into English
• may be co-authored with a student.

Deadline

The deadline for the submission of papers is 1 March 2020. Papers shall be sent to the ECTA Secretariat by e-mail to ecta[at]ecta.org.

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