EU-ASEAN Colloquium on IP Education, 22-23 November 2006, Kuala Lumpur

This EU-ASEAN Colloquium on IP  Education was jointly organised by the EC-ASEAN  Intellectual Property Rights Co-operation Programme (ECAP II) and the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO) with the aim to continuously promote and develop IP education in the region. 

One of the outcomes of this ECAP II event was the creation of an EU-ASEAN Universities Networking on IP Education. Dr. Nantana Gajaseni, Deputy Executive Director of ASEAN University Network (AUN) and Prof Michael Blakeney, President of the European Intellectual Property Institutes Network (EIPIN) co-signed a Memorandum of Understanding witnessed by the presence of high-ranking officials including Honorable Datuk Haji Ahmad Husni Bin Mohamad Hanadzlah, Malaysian Deputy Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs, HE Thierry Rommel, Ambassador-Head of Delegation of the European Commission to Malaysia, Datuk IR (Dr) Haji Ahmad Zaidee Laidin Chairman of MyIPO and Mr Johan Amand, Director of International Affairs, European Patent Office (EPO). 

During the event opening ceremony, H.E. Mr Thierry Rommel, Ambassador-Head of Delegation of the European Commission to Malaysia stressed the importance to develop a better education on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in the ASEAN  region for the promotion of trade, investment and human capital development: “By bringing intellectual property into your national curricula, be it law programmes, business studies, economic or other areas of education, you are preparing students for the ever evolving field of intellectual property and you are contributing to a mindset that strengthens the acquisition and protection of IP.”

This colloquium attracted representatives from European and ASEAN universities and educational institutes as well as ASEAN national IP offices to draw up intellectual property (IP) curricula in the ASEAN region for law and non-law students.  A Regional Handbook on IP teaching and training comprising model curricula and teaching material was also prepared for further discussion. 

Amongst ASEAN & European universities and other educational institutions participating to this colloquium were the Gadjah Mada University and the Airlangga University (Indonesia), the Royal University of Phnom Penh and  the Royal University of Laws and Economics Cambodia (Cambodia), the Department of Private Education, National University of Laos (Laos), the University of Malaya (Malaysia), the University of the Philippines System (Philippines), the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Business School of the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), the Chiangmai University, the Chulalongkorn University Intellectual Property Institute and the Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand) and the Vietnam national University (Vietnam) as well as 16 other universities from Malaysia. In the European side, the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (United Kingdom), the Centre d’Etude Internationales de la Propriété Industrielle or CEIPI (France) and the Max Planck Institute for IP, Competition and Tax Law (Germany), all members  of  EIPIN, were also represented.

Photo Albums:
-  Opening & MOU signing Ceremony
-  Seminar

Presentation materials from this forum available for downloading:

*  Handbook on IP curricula and teaching materials

THEME I:    RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN IP EDUCATION IN ASEAN

*   Report on IP Education in ASEAN by Professor Michael Blakeney, Queen Mary Intellectual
     Property Research  Institute London, United Kingdom
*   Up-date from some ECAP II IP Scholars on recent developments in IP
     --  Indonesia by Ramli Jened
     --  Philippines (word/powerpoint) by Ferdinand M. Negre
     --  Thailand by Lukana Pobromyen
     --  Vietnam by Tran Le Hong
*  Recent developments in Laos (word document/powerpoint) by Dr Somchit Paseutsak, Deputy
    Director General, Department of Private Education Ministry of Education, Lao PDR
*  Overview of IP Courses in Indonesia by Dina W. Kariodimedjo, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Gadjah
    Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

THEME II:   IP COURSES AND DEGREES IN THE LEGAL AREA

*  Specialist IP Course for Law Students: Advanced Trade Mark Law by Dr Tay Pek San, Senior
    Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Malaya
*  Specialist IP Courses for Law Students – Biotechnology and Patenting by Associate Professor
    Burton Ong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
*  IP Law Courses in Europe: The Example of CEIPI by Ms Hsiao-Fen Hsu, Research Associate,
   Centre for International Industrial Property Studies, (CEIPI), Université Robert  Schuman,
   Strasbourg, France
* IP Law Courses in Europe: The Example of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Centre (MIPLC)
   by Dr Peter Ganea, Program Director, Max Planck Institute for IP, Competition and Tax Law
   Munich, Germany

THEME III:  IP COURSES AND DEGREES IN THE NON-LEGAL AREA

*  IP Courses for Business Students by Mr Stephen Ang, Nanyang Business School of the Nanyang
    Technological University, Singapore
*  IP Management Courses by Dr Roland Amoussou-Guenou, Head of IP Programmes and
    Visiting Lecturer WIPO IP University Coordinator, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand
*  Overview of IP representation in Europe and endeavours undertaken in ASEAN by Dr Karl
    Rackette, European and German Patent Attorney, Rackette Partnerschaft, Freiburg, Germany

THEME IV:  EU-ASEAN IP NETWORKING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF IP EDUCATION IN ASEAN

*  The European Intellectual Property Institutes Network (EIPIN) and the EIPIN PhD Students
    Network by Professor Michael Blakeney, President, EIPIN
*  ASEAN IP Teachers Network by Dr Nantana Gajaseni, Deputy Executive Director, ASEAN
    University Network (AUN) Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand