CIPPM awarded IP enforcement project for a further four years by the EUIPO

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A project commissioned by the Observatory of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights has been awarded to CIPPM for a further four years, and will run from January 2025- December 2028.

The initial four-year project which ran from January 2021 was brought to a successful completion in December 2024 in collaboration with Milieu Consulting SPRL.

The extension of the funded project for a further four years from January 2025 – December 2028 will be led by Milieu Consulting SPRL with CIPPM as co-investigator.

The project, consisting of the core project team as well as a large network of national experts and voluntary expert reviewers, spanning 12 Member States, will continue to expand, update and consolidate the EUIPO’s eSearch Case Law system (database including key national case-law in the area of IP enforcement). In so doing, the project will take forward the work begun by the EUIPO in 2014 in collecting national key enforcement judgments from the Member States that are related to IPRs.

Case-law

The project team including national experts and voluntary expert reviewers is as follows.

Project Co-ordinator (for CIPPM)

Project Co-ordinator (for Milieu)

  • Ela Omersa

Project Team

National Experts

  • Dr. Michael Woller (Schoenherr Law, Austria)
  • Dr. Jozefien Vanherpe (KU Leuven, Belgium)
  • Dr. Tatiana Eleni Synodinou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
  • Dr. Laura Valtere (Center for Advanced Studies in BioScience Innovation and Law)
  • Prof. Dr. Aleksei Kelli (University of Tartu, Estonia)
  • Ms. Kristina Delfin Kanceljak (Attorney at Law, Croatian Bar Association, Croatia)
  • Dr. Marcella Favale (SciencesPo Paris and CIPPM, Bournemouth University)
  • Dr. Susanna Grech Deguara and Dr. Danielle Mercieca (Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates)
  • Dr. Anke Moreland (Maastricht University)
  • Dr. Iga Bałos-Stoczewska (Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, Poland)
  • Ms. Margarida Vasconcelos (CCA Law, Portugal)
  • Dr. Rãzvan Dincã and (Rãzvan Dincã & Asociatii and University of Bucharest, Romania) and Dr. Ionut Cofaru (Rãzvan Dincã & Asociatii, Romania)

Past National Experts

  • Axel Paul Ringelhann (Legal Counsel, Austria, 2020-2021)
  • Prof. Dr. Esther Van Zimmeren (University of Antwerp, Belgium, 2020-2023)
  • Dr. Fanny Koleva, Dr. Miglena Molhova and Dr. Rumiana Brestnichka (University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2021-2024)
  • Prof. Dr. Taina Pihlajarinne and Dr. Olli Honkkila (University of Helsinki, Finland, 2020-2022)*
  • Prof. Dr. Alexander Peukert (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt a/M, Germany, 2021-2024)
  • Dr. Valentina Moscon (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany, 2025)
  • Dr. Monique Farrugia and Dr. Ivan Vella (Vella Advocates, Malta, 2021-2024)
  • Dr. Maurice Schellekens (University of Tilburg Law School, Netherlands, 2021-2024)
  • Prof. Dr. Tito Rendas (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal, 2021-2024)

*As part of this project, the collection of key enforcement judgments from Finland was needed and carried out between 2020-2022 only. 

A team of Voluntary Expert Reviewers drawn from the above Member States also form part of the Project Team as part of the quality review process. They are:

  • Mag. Dr. Adolf Zemann (Austria)
  • Mr. Paul Maeyaert (Belgium)
  • Ms. Eleni Papacharalambous (Cyprus)
  • Prof. Dr Age Värv (Estonia)
  • Prof. Dr. Jan Nordemann (Germany)
  • Prof. Dr. Alexander Peukert (Germany)
  • Mr. Aleksandar Bijelić (Hungary)
  • Judge Michèle Hornick (Luxembourg)
  • Dr. Mariosa Vella Cardona (Malta)
  • Etienne Valk (Netherlands)
  • Dr. hab. Justyna Ożegalska-Trybalska (Poland)
  • Ms. Ana Maria Pereira da Silva (Portugal)
  • Ms. Ana-Maria Baciu (Romania)

Past Voluntary Expert Reviewers

  • Mr. Ventsislav Tomov (Bulgaria)
  • Mr. Aleksandar Bijelić (Croatia)
  • Prof. Rosa Ballardini (Finland)
  • Dr. Bernd Justin Jüste (Luxembourg)
  • Dr. Ioannis Revolidis (Malta)
  • Prof. Anselm Kamperman-Sanders (Netherlands)
  • Prof. Dr. Stef van Gompel (Netherlands)
  • Prof. Dr. Dário Moura Vicente (Portugal)

The Project Team would also like to acknowledge the contribution made by an independent reviewer who supported the selection of key enforcement judgments.

  • Dessislava Iordanova (Bulgaria)