“Recent Issues of International Business Litigation and Arbitration”

November 14 (Sat), 2009

Venue: Nagoya Marriott Associa Hotel

Moderator

Professor Dr. Yoshiharu MATSUURA
Nagoya University, Japan

Opening Session

Welcome Address

Professor Dr. Masanori KAWANO
Nagoya University, Japan

SESSION I:
Comparative Study of Litigation on Intellectual Properties

Presentations

"Intellectual Property Litigation as a Business Activity –General Remarks and Japanese Experiences-"

Professor Dr. Masanori KAWANO
Nagoya University, Japan

"American and German Patent Litigation; A Comparative Law Experiment"

Professor Peter L. MURRAY
Harvard Law School, U.S.A

"Some Procedural Aspects Concerning the Protection of Copyrightable Works in Digital Form"

Professor Dr. Dimitris MANIOTIS
Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Discussion Presentations

"Litigation on Intellectual Properties in Europe – Basic Structures and Perspectives"

Professor Dr. Alexander BRUNS
Freiburg University, Germany

"Litigation on Intellectual Properties in Hungary"

Professor Dr. Miklos KENGYEL
University of Pecs, Hungary

Discussion

November 15 (Sun), 2009

Venue: Nagoya Marriott Associa Hotel

Moderator:

Professor Ikuo SUGAWARA
Nagoya University, Japan

SESSION II:
Ordre Public and Foreign Judgment or Arbitration

Presentations

"Procedural Differences, Ordre Public and Recognition of Foreign Judgments – An Impressionistic Account"

Professor Dr. Nicolo TROCKER
University of Florence, Italy

"Public Judicial Support for the Private System of Arbitration"

Professor Dr. Neil ANDREWS
University of Cambridge, U.K.

"Arbitration, Bankruptcy and Public Policy (Ordre Public)"

Professor Dr. Dieter Leipold
University of Freiburg

Discussion Presentations

"Ordre Public and Arbitration in Hungary"

Professor Dr. Viktoria HARSAGI
Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary

(read by Professor Dr. Miklós Kengyel, University of Pecs)

"Public Policy in the European Union and the Abolition of Exequatur Proceedings"

Professor Dr. Marco de CRISTOFARO
University of Padova, Italy

"Ordre Public and the Foreign Judgment - the Situation in Finland"

Dr. Laura ERVO
University of Helsinki, Finland

"Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitration Awards in Spain and Public Policy"

Professor Dr. Carlos ESPLUGUES MOTA
University of Valencia, Spain

"The 'Manifest Conflict' to the Public Policy (Ordre Public) of the State in which Recognition is Sought, as a Ground of Non-recognition for Judgments Relating to Family Relations"

Professor Dr. Spyros TSANTINIS
Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Discussion

Closing Session

Closing Remarks