Speakers biographies

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Fraktion der Europäischen Volkspartei (Christdemokraten) im Europäischen Parlament
Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) in the European Parliament
Groupe du Parti Populaire Européen (Démocrates-Chrétiens) au Parlement européen
Parliamentary Works - Parlamentarische Arbeiten - Travaux Parlementaires
Speaker bios
Marielle GALLO
Position: Member of the European Parliament
Organisation: European Parliament
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Postgraduate diploma (DEA) in general private law, Paris I (1977). Diploma to practise as a
lawyer, Paris (1978).
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Lawyer practising in Paris (since 4 October 1978).
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Member of the Gauche Moderne (Modern Left) national bureau (2008). Spokesperson for
Gauche Moderne (2009).
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Author of eight novels published under the name Marielle GALLET.
Tadeusz ZWIEFKA
Position: Member of the European Parliament
Organisation: European Parliament
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Masters in law, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (1979).
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Legal adviser to the Special Machine Tools Factory in Poznań (1979-1981). Reporter for TVP
Poznań; editor-in-chief of TVP Poznań local programming; presenter of the 'Wiadomości' news
programme on TVP 1; manager of TVP Szczecin; editor and presenter of 'W centrum uwagi' on
TVP 1 (1982-1998). Marketing director, 'Sunset Suits' (1998-2000). Telewizja Polska SA - editor
and presenter of 'Telekurier' on TVP 3 (2000-2004).
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Member of the Civic Platform National Executive (2004).
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Member of the European Parliament (2004-present).
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Member of the Board of the Hipolit Cegielski Society. Spokesman for 'Stowarzyszenie Pomocy
Mieszkaniowej dla Sierot', an association providing housing assistance to orphans.
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Bronze Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland. Commander's Cross of the Order of St Stanislas.
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Panel 1: Practical aspects of latest trademark trends. Why are
trademarks important to the economy?
Margot FRÖHLINGER
Position: Director, DG Internal Market, Directorate D,
Intellectual Property
Organisation: European Commission
Margot Fröhlinger graduated from Saarbrücken University with a law degree in 1976. Her postgraduate qualifications consist of the German professional law qualification (1979) and a Doctorate
in law from Trier University (1981).
From 1979 to 1983 she worked as senior assistant and lecturer in Constitutional, Administrative and
European law at Trier University. From 1983 to 1987 she was a judge at several Courts in Germany.
In 1987 she joined the Commission of the European Communities, where she held different posts in
the Directorate General for Competition and in the DG Internal Market and Services.
Since 2007, she is Director of the Directorate dealing with Intellectual Property, where she is in
charge of copyright and related rights, of industrial property, including trademarks and patents, and
of the fight against counterfeiting and piracy.
Fabrice CLAIREAU
Position: Directeur des Affaires Juridiques et Internationales
Organisation: INPI (National Industrial Property Institute,
France)
Fabrice CLAIREAU est Directeur des affaires juridiques et internationales de l’Institut national
de la Propriété Industrielle (INPI) depuis juin 2005.
Après avoir exercé des fonctions à la Commission européenne et à la Direction Générale d’EDF, il a
rejoint en 1995 le Secrétariat Général des Affaires Européennes (SGAE – service du Premier
Ministre) en qualité d’adjoint du Conseiller Juridique du SGAE compétent pour les dossiers
institutionnels, de concurrence et d’aide d’Etat, de propriété industrielle.
Il a participé à l’élaboration des textes communautaires et assuré la gestion du contentieux initié
devant la Cour de Justice dans le domaine de la propriété industrielle.
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Annick MOTTET HAUGAARD
Position: President of ECTA (European Communities Trade Mark
Association), Partner at LYDIAN (Belgian Law firm)
Organisation: ECTA, LYDIAN
Graduated with a degree in law in 1987 from the University of Liège, obtained a Postgraduate diploma in
Advanced European Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges in 1988. She subsequently worked for
two years as a trainee lawyer and assistant in criminal procedures with Professor Franchimont at the
University of Liège. In 1990, she joined the law firm Stibbe, where she became partner on 1 January
2000. In 2006 she joined Lydian as a partner, head of the IP team.
Annick is a Belgian expert in intellectual property law. All reputed Legal Guides recommend her in this
area: ‘Great technical expertise, in-depth advice, proactive manner and top organisational skills.’
(Chambers Europe 2010).
Annick's pratice encompasses the full range of areas linked to the launching and marketing of products
and services, including intellectual property and in particular trade marks, distribution, franchising,
advertising, consumer protection and privacy issues. She acts for numerous prestigious international
companies and works on referrals from the world’s most prestigious law firms. She has solid experience
in litigation and negotiations, including with authorities.
Since January 2010, Annick is a member of the Belgian Council for Intellectual Property. In June 2010,
she was also appointed President of the European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA). She
has been an active member of its Anti-Counterfeiting Committee since 2000.
She is also a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA), the International Association
for the Protection of Intellectual Property Law (AIPPI), the French Association des Praticiens du Droit
des Marques et des Modèles (APRAM) and the International League of Competition Law (LIDC).
She is regularly invited to speak on trade mark and distribution issues before international audiences.
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Panel 2: EU Trademark System review - tackling latest challenges
João NEGRÃO
Position: Director of the International Affairs and Legal Department
of the OHIM
Organisation: OHIM (Office of Harmonisation for the Internal
Market)
Mr NEGRÃO is of Portuguese nationality. He holds a degree in International Relations (Lusiada
University, Lisbon), specialist degrees in Diplomacy and in Official State Protocol and a High Level
Course on Public Administration Management (National Institute of Administration).
Mr. Negrão also completed a number of IP-related courses, namely a General course on IP at the WIPO
Worldwide Academy and a specialised course on the practice and functioning of the IP system in the USA
given by the USPTO.
Mr. Negrão has held positions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, General Directorate for EU Affairs
and in the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
Before joining OHIM he worked at the Portuguese National Institute of Industrial Property, Ministry of
Justice, initially within the International Relations Cabinet and from 2004 as its Head of Cabinet. He was
then appointed as Director of International Relations and Promotion of Innovation.
In October 2010 he joined OHIM as Head of Cabinet and in July 2011 he became Director of the
International Cooperation and Legal Affairs Department.
Prof. Christian ROHNKE
Position: Partner (Trademark attorney)
Organisation: Partner, White & Case LLP
Education
1978 – 1983
Law Schools of Munich, Germany and Geneva, Switzerland
First Law Degree (Referendar-Examen) Munich, 1983
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1983 – 1984
University of Texas at Austin School of Law, Fulbright Scholar
1984
Graduated with Masters in Comparative Jurisprudence
1984
New York Bar Exam, admitted in New York since 1985
1986
Doctor juris, Munich University Law School
Dissertation on Codes of Conduct for Transnational Enterprises
Grade “magna cum laude”
1987
Second Law Degree (Assessor-Examen), Munich
Admitted to German courts since 1988 as Rechtsanwalt
Career History
1984 – 1987
Referendar - Internships included German Patent Office and Federal Cartel Office
Research Assistant, Stever & Beiten (now Beiten, Burkhardt), Munich
1987
Summer Associate, Whitman & Ransom, New York
1987 – 1990
Rechtsanwalt, Storch, Schwanhäusser & Partner (now Grünecker), Munich
1990
Partner in the firm
1991
Rechtsanwalt, Ohle Hansen Ewerwahn, Hamburg, in charge of creating IP department
1992
Partner, Feddersen Laue Scherzberg & Ohle Hansen Ewerwahn, Hamburg
1993 – 1996
Lecturer on media law, University of Jena
since 1997
Lecturer on patent law, Hamburg Institute of Technology
since 2000
Partner, White & Case LLP, Exectutive Partner, Hamburg office
since 2003
Professor, Hamburg Institute of Technology
Nunzia VARRICCHIO
Position: Chair of Marques Council
Organisation: Marques (Association of European Trade Mark
Owners)
Chair of MARQUES Council and Senior Trademark Counsel for DSM, a global science-based company,
active in health, nutrition and materials.
More than 20 years of in-house IP experience. She specializes in the strategic management of acquired
portfolios and the development of internal IP resources.
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16.20-17.10 - Panel 3: Trademarks and the Internet
Dr Katarzyna LASOTA HELLER
Position: European Regulatory Affairs
Organisation: MIH Group
Dr Katarzyna Lasota Heller has been dealing with legal issues connected with the Internet for
more than 11 years. She is a qualified lawyer in Poland and in Switzerland.
She wrote and defended her doctoral thesis on consumers on the Internet at the Max Planck
Institute in Munich. She also completed postgraduate studies (LL.M.) in the United States,
specialising in issues related to Internet business models and Protection of Intellectual Property on
the Internet.
Having worked for a number of international law firms and consulting companies in Germany,
Austria and Poland, Dr Lasota Heller currently manages the Legal Compliance Programme at the
MIH/Naspers Group and is responsible for dozens of companies operating worldwide.
At the European Union level, Dr Lasota Heller represents the MIH/Naspers Group before the
authorities of the European Union and the Member States, and enters into dialogue with other
participants on the electronic market.
As vice-president of the European Digital Media Association, Dr Lasota Heller actively promotes
the removal of barriers in the European Internal Market, primarily in the areas of e-commerce,
digitization and innovation.
In addition, Dr Lasota Heller is a lecturer in International Intellectual Property Law at the
Kozminski University in Warsaw. She is fluent in Polish, English and German, and has a working
knowledge of French.
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Jean BERGEVIN
Position: Head of Unit - Fight against Counterfeiting and Piracy
Directorate D - Intellectual property
Organisation: DG Internal Market and Services, European
Commission
Jean Bergevin was born and educated in the UK. He graduated with a BA in Economics and
French in 1981. His post-graduate qualifications consist of an MA in Economics and a PhD on the
Economic Analysis of the industrial market for electricity in the UK.
In 1986 he was recruited to IEA Coal Research as an economist to study the international industrial
market for coal.
In 1988 he was recruited as an economic adviser at the DTI (UK Department of Trade and
Industry) where he worked in a Market Assessment Unit covering numerous heavy industries and
notably the steel and chemicals sectors.
In 1989 he joined the European Commission as a policy officer in the Directorate General for
Economic and Financial Affairs, where he was involved in the analysis of firms’ strategies in the
Internal Market. He also acted as this Directorate General's contact point for Competition policy
and worked closely with the team who established the Merger Task Force in DG Competition.
Since October 1991 he has been working in the Directorate General for the Internal Market and
Services (DG MARKT). He was a member of policy Units dealing with media, commercial
communication, e-commerce and services in the Internal Market between 1991 and 2004. He was
involved with the preparation of the Commission Green Paper on commercial communications in
the Internal Market in 1996, the 1998 Commission Communication on this same issue and the
Commission Proposal for a Regulation on Sales Promotion adopted in 2001.
In June 2004 he was appointed Head of Unit of DG MARKT E-2 (Retail and Information Services).
This Unit was responsible for applying Internal Market law to distributive trade services,
commercial communication services, media services, technical testing/accreditation services and
gambling services. It was also responsible for the e-commerce and conditional access directives and
for the evaluation of notifications of new national information society rules falling under directive
98/34. The Unit prepared the Commission's second implementation Report on the Conditional
Access directive in 2008, the Commission's Retail Market Monitoring report in 2010 and the
Commission Green paper on online gambling services in 2011.
In April, 2011 he was appointed to his current position as the Head of Unit of MARKT D3 (Fight
against Counterfeiting and Piracy). This Unit is responsible for the application of Directive
2004/98/EC on the enforcement of IPR and the review of that text foreseen in 2012. It is
negotiating the proposed Regulation of the Commission to establish the Observatory on
Counterfeiting and Piracy within OHIM and is developing stakeholder dialogues seeking to
establish agreements to improve IPR enforcement such as the MoU on the sale of counterfeit goods
that was signed in Brussels in May 2011. The Unit is also involved in preparatory work on
improving the enforcement of trade secrets and against lookalikes in the EU.
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Valerie SONNIER
Position: Global Intellectual Property Director for Louis Vuitton
Organisation: LVMH
Valerie Sonnier is a French citizen and currently serves as Global Intellectual Property Director of
Louis Vuitton for LVMH Group. Prior to her current role, she worked as Director of the Trademark and
Internet Department for the group Decathlon, and as Intellectual Property Director for the group Bic,
amongst others .
Karim Antonio LESINA
Position: Executive Director, International External Affairs
EU, Caribbean, Central and Latin America
Organisation: AT&T
Karim Antonio Lesina is the Executive Director of AT&T covering International External Affairs for
the EU, Caribbean, Central and Latin America Regions. In this role he leads AT&T's advocacy in those
regions. He is also the Chair of the Presidency Group and of the Digital Economy Committee of the
American Chamber of Commerce to the EU. He also represents AT&T in different associations such as
ETNO, GSMA and ECTA.
Prior to joining AT&T, Karim held senior positions with another leading US-headquartered ICT
company, and a number of leading public affairs agencies in Brussels. Karim has worked on external
affairs projects in several countries across the EMEA region.
Born in Dakar (Senegal) Karim is an Italian-Tunisian national and has a Masters Degree in Economics
of development at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium.
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