GRUR (German Association for Intellectual Property Law)

Wednesday, 25 June 2025
10.30 to 19.30 h
Representation of the State of North-Rhine Westphalia to the EU
47 Rue Montoyer, B-1000 Brussels

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14.30 – 14.45 Global perspectives and international law dimensions of NGT plant innovation in Europe
Dr Jocelyn Bosse, Lecturer, School of Law, Queen´s University Belfast

14.45 – 15.45 Panel discussion
The current proposals on protection requirements and patentability: reasonable and feasible?

• Dr Gert Würtenberger
• Dr Sven Bostyn, LLB, Lic. Jur., LLM law, PhD law
• Dr Jocelyn Bosse
  Moderator: Andreas Popp, Chair of the GRUR Special Committee on Biotechnology; Senior Vice President, Global Intellectual
  Property – Biotechnology, Seed, Ludwigshafen am Rhein

15.45 – 16.15 Coffee break

16.15 – 17.35 PART III: SCOPE OF PROTECTION

1 6.15 – 16.30 Perspectives from the EU Parliament
Martin Häusling, Member of the European Parliament, Group of the Greens / European Free Alliance, Brussels / Strasbourg

16.30 – 16.45 Limitations on the scope of protection and compulsory licenses
Dr Daria Kim, Senior Research Fellow Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and
Competition, Munich

16.45 – 17.00 (Full) Breeder’s exemption and other restrictions of patent claims
Prof. Dr Axel Metzger, LL.M. (Harvard), Professor for Civil Law and Intellectual Property Law, especially Industrial
Property Law, Humboldt University of Berlin

17.00 – 17.30 Panel discussion
The current proposals on scope of protection and limitations: room for compromise?
Moderator: Andreas Popp, Chair of the GRUR Special Committee on Biotechnology

17.30 – 17.35 Wrap-up
Dr Gert Würtenberger, President of GRUR

17.35 – 19.30 Get-together with drinks & nibbles