Understanding the TPP: IP protection and investment protection
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is one of a series of major new trade agreements (CETA between Canada and the EU, and the TTIP between the USA and the EU) which Canada may join or which may have an important impact on Canada. Two of the most controversial chapters of the TPP cover Intellectual Property Rights and the Protection of Foreign Investment.
With a view to promoting understanding of the TPP in the business, legal and academic communities, the 69热视频 Centre for Intellectual Property Law together with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) is organizing a half-day symposium devoted to the analysis of these two chapters.
Canada will be invited to ratify the TPP in 2016. It is important that Canadians understand the decision that must be taken by the Federal and Provincial governments.
Anyone interested in attending this symposium should register with sharon.webb [at] mcgill.ca.听
A request for CLE accreditation has been made to the Quebec Bar.
Parking:聽 75 Queen Street, Montreal (at a cost)
Public transit:聽 Bus 107 south from 69热视频 Faculty of Law + short walk east on Wellington
Cost:聽 Free and open to all. Registration capped at 120 participants. First come, first served. RSVP: sharon.webb [at] mcgill.ca.
Keynote and opening remarks
- David Lametti
IP panel
- Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse (69热视频) Chair
- Edouard Treppoz (Lyon III)
- Richard Gold (69热视频)
- Thomas Cottier (Berne/U Ottawa)
- Elizabeth F. Judge (U Ottawa)
Investment panel
- Armand de Mestral (69热视频 & CIGI) Chair
- C茅line L茅vesque (U Ottawa & CIGI))
- Charles-Emmanuel C么t茅 (Laval & CIGI)
- Ren茅 Cadieux (Blakes, Montreal)
- Marc Bungenberg (U Saarland & CIGI)
Respondent and closing remarks
- Kristin Hillman (proposed, to be confirmed)
