{"id":8340,"date":"2025-09-12T14:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/?p=8340"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:27:28","slug":"cippm-awarded-ip-enforcement-project-for-a-further-four-years-by-the-euipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2025\/09\/12\/cippm-awarded-ip-enforcement-project-for-a-further-four-years-by-the-euipo\/","title":{"rendered":"CIPPM awarded IP enforcement project for a further four years by the EUIPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/euipo.europa.eu\/ohimportal\/en\/web\/observatory\/case-law\">project<\/a> commissioned by the <span class=\"aCOpRe\">Observatory of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (<a href=\"https:\/\/euipo.europa.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EUIPO<\/a>) on the Enforcement<\/span><span class=\"aCOpRe\">\u00a0of Intellectual Property Rights<\/span> has been awarded to CIPPM for a further four years, and will run from January 2025- December 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2021\/05\/06\/collection-of-national-key-enforcement-judgements-related-to-intellectual-property-rights\/\">initial four-year project<\/a> which ran from January 2021 was brought to a successful completion in December 2024 in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milieu.be\/\">Milieu Consulting SPRL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The extension of the funded project for a further four years from January 2025 &#8211; December 2028 will be led by Milieu Consulting SPRL with CIPPM as co-investigator.<\/p>\n<p>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 <em>expand, update and consolidate<\/em> the EUIPO\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/euipo.europa.eu\/eSearchCLW\/\">eSearch<\/a> Case Law system (database <span class=\"aCOpRe\">including key national case-law in the area of IP enforcement). In so doing, the project w<\/span>ill 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.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/euipo.europa.eu\/eSearchCLW\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"n3VNCb\" src=\"https:\/\/euipo.europa.eu\/tunnel-web\/secure\/webdav\/guest\/document_library\/observatory\/img\/FACTS_AND_FIGURES\/e-search-case-law.jpg\" alt=\"Case-law\" data-noaft=\"1\" \/><\/a>\n<p>The project team including national experts and voluntary expert reviewers is as follows.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Project Co-ordinator (for CIPPM)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2014\/04\/23\/dinusha-mendis\/\">Dinusha Mendis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Project Co-ordinator (for Milieu)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ela Omersa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Project Team<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2015\/10\/28\/dukki-hong\/\">Dukki Hong<\/a> (CIPPM\/BU)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2014\/05\/13\/marcella-favale\/\">Dr Marcella Favale<\/a> (CIPPM\/BU)<\/li>\n<li>Julie Dorval (Milieu)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>National Experts<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Michael Woller (Schoenherr Law, Austria)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Jozefien Vanherpe (KU Leuven, Belgium)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Tatiana Eleni Synodinou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Laura Valtere (Center for Advanced Studies in BioScience Innovation and Law)<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Dr. Aleksei Kelli (University of Tartu, Estonia)<\/li>\n<li>Ms. Kristina Delfin Kanceljak (Attorney at Law, Croatian Bar Association, Croatia)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Marcella Favale (SciencesPo Paris and CIPPM, Bournemouth University)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Susanna Grech Deguara and Dr. Danielle Mercieca (Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Anke Moreland (Maastricht University)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Iga Ba\u0142os-Stoczewska (Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, Poland)<\/li>\n<li>Ms. Margarida Vasconcelos (CCA Law, Portugal)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. R\u00e3zvan Dinc\u00e3 and (R\u00e3zvan Dinc\u00e3 &amp; Asociatii and University of Bucharest, Romania) and Dr. Ionut Cofaru (R\u00e3zvan Dinc\u00e3 &amp; Asociatii, Romania)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Past National Experts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Axel Paul Ringelhann (Legal Counsel, Austria, 2020-2021)<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Dr. Esther Van Zimmeren (University of Antwerp, Belgium, 2020-2023)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Fanny Koleva, Dr. Miglena Molhova and Dr. Rumiana Brestnichka (University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2021-2024)<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Dr. Taina Pihlajarinne and Dr. Olli Honkkila (University of Helsinki, Finland, 2020-2022)*<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Dr. Alexander Peukert (Goethe Universit\u00e4t, Frankfurt a\/M, Germany, 2021-2024)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Valentina Moscon (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany, 2025)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Monique Farrugia and Dr. Ivan Vella (Vella Advocates, Malta, 2021-2024)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Maurice Schellekens (University of Tilburg Law School, Netherlands, 2021-2024)<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Dr. Tito Rendas (Universidade Cat\u00f3lica Portuguesa, Portugal, 2021-2024)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>*As part of this project, the collection of key enforcement judgments from Finland was needed and carried out between 2020-2022 only.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A team of <strong>Voluntary Expert Reviewers<\/strong> drawn from the above Member States also form part of the Project Team as part of the quality review process. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mag. Dr. Adolf Zemann (Austria)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Paul Maeyaert (Belgium)<\/li>\n<li>Ms. Eleni Papacharalambous (Cyprus)<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Dr Age V\u00e4rv (Estonia)<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Dr. Jan Nordemann (Germany)<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Dr. Alexander Peukert (Germany)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Aleksandar Bijeli\u0107 (Hungary)<\/li>\n<li>Judge Mich\u00e8le Hornick (Luxembourg)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Mariosa Vella Cardona (Malta)<\/li>\n<li>Etienne Valk (Netherlands)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. hab. Justyna O\u017cegalska-Trybalska (Poland)<\/li>\n<li>Ms. Ana Maria Pereira da Silva (Portugal)<\/li>\n<li>Ms. Ana-Maria Baciu (Romania)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Past Voluntary Expert Reviewers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mr. Ventsislav Tomov (Bulgaria)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Aleksandar Bijeli\u0107 (Croatia)<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Rosa Ballardini (Finland)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Bernd Justin J\u00fcste (Luxembourg)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Ioannis Revolidis (Malta)<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Anselm Kamperman-Sanders (Netherlands)<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Dr. Stef van Gompel (Netherlands)<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Dr. D\u00e1rio Moura Vicente (Portugal)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Project Team would also like to acknowledge the contribution made by an <strong>independent reviewer<\/strong> who supported the selection of key enforcement judgments.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dessislava Iordanova (Bulgaria)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6299 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/files\/2019\/11\/EUIPO_LOGO_EN.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/files\/2019\/11\/EUIPO_LOGO_EN.png 565w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/files\/2019\/11\/EUIPO_LOGO_EN-300x82.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A project commissioned by the Observatory of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) on the Enforcement\u00a0of 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&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2025\/09\/12\/cippm-awarded-ip-enforcement-project-for-a-further-four-years-by-the-euipo\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about CIPPM awarded IP enforcement project for a further four years by the EUIPO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":7913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,13],"tags":[30,2],"class_list":["post-8340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-focus-areas","category-projects","category-uk-eu-ip-policy","tag-current","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8341,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340\/revisions\/8341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}