1. ACADEMY INITIATIVES 2013
Juan SUAREZ
23-24/04/2103

2. The Academy
Strategic Plan Line of Action 4 Knowledge Management and Learning
Key role in enhancing the professionalism and depth of expertise
Ensure that intellectual power is harnessed
Share knowledge with OHIM's stakeholders
Virtuous Circle=
1) to be a knowledge-based agency
2) To poject our knowledge to stakeholders
Link between the 2 pillars of the Strategic Plan (1) Organizational excellence 2) International Cooperation)
Now, will also support the activities of the Observatory on Infringements of IP

3. IT Projects in the Academy area
OHIM Academy Learning Portal (OALP)
Tutorials and eLearning content
Digitalization of Content project
Knowledge Repository
Case Law Database
Judges Forum
This is to ensure that content is stored only in one place, even if it is accessed from elsewhere and will guarantee that an OHIM website user can find and access, for example, a specific Decision that a colleague has recently uploaded.
Once this work is complete, we will concentrate our efforts, eliciting the assistance of various IT colleagues to increasing external access.

5. IP Seminars in 2013 for national offices
2 Mini IP Seminars (2 days) from Alicante through webinars
2 IP Seminars (1 week for CTMs and 3 days for RCDs) in Alicante
Regional IP Seminars (2 days) in French, English, Spanish, Italian and German
IP Summer School (1 week) in Alicante

6. Trainings offered to national offices
Short IP tranings (2 hours) are offered through webinars broadcasted in direct from Alicante or elsewhere.
Short IP tranings will be filmed and posted on our platform as much as possible.
OHIM-INTA Day will also be proposed as a webinar.
Other trainings in Alicante: Train the Trainer, Mediation

7. OHIM Universities Network
Set up in 2008 in order to promote a better knowledge of Community trade marks and designs at European universities.
Some 20 European universities are taking part in this programme
Two students from each participating university are invited to write their Masters theses on topics on the CTM or CD system, proposed by OHIM. These students come to present their (interim) results during research meetings, held at OHIM, where they have interchanges with senior OHIM staff acting as “research advisers”.

8. Judges Seminars and Symposium
Every year, the Academy organises judges seminars
Every two year, a judges symposium is also organised. as part of the OHIM sponsored European Judges Network initiative.
The fundamental objectives behind the judges’ network are the promotion of the exchange of knowledge and information among the judges of the different member states and the facilitating of cooperation between different CTM and RCD courts, as well as the enhancing of personal and professional relationships between the judges themselves.
To achieve this goal, OHIM organises regular tailor made seminars focusing on comparative law approaches, allowing judges to meet in an informal, private, confidential and secure context.
On this occasion, the event brought together around fifty participants from across the European Union, not only CTM & RCD Court judges, but also other judges from the national courts and the European courts in Luxembourg.
Though it may never be possible to fully eliminate differences between the courts form across the European Union, the judges network and, in particular, the seminars and symposium organised by OHIM, offer a vital platform for harmonisation of practices and a better global understanding of the CTM and CD systems for judges.

9. Events for National Offices
FEBRUARY
JULY 8
19-21 21
Webinar on IP rights
Train the Trainer – essentials
Webinar on Trade marks
OHIM
1-5
2-4
IP Summer School
MARCH
SEPTEMBER
4-5
11-12
14-15 18
Train the Trainer on Cooperation Tools
Webinar on CTMs (I)
IP Webinar on Selected Groups of Opposition (Art. 8(1) (b) and 8 (5)) and Proof of Use
Judges Seminar on Indemnification
Webinar on CTMs (II)
10-11 19
18-20
23-24
23-25
Regional Seminar in English
OHIM INTA Day
Mediation training
Accreditation in Mediation
Train the Trainer - essentials
TBC
APRIL
OCTOBER 15 25 30
Webinar on Designs
Train the Trainer – advanced
Train the Trainer- How to coach
Webinar on Enforcement of IP rights
30th Sept- 4
7-8
22-23 24
OHIM IP Seminar on Trademarks
Judges Symposium
MAY
NOVEMBER
16-17
30-31
Judges Criminal Seminar
Regional Seminar in French
13 – 15
28-29
Regional Seminar in German
OHIM IP Seminar on Designs
2nd Judges Seminar on Internet issues
JUNE
DECEMBER
10 -11
13-14
Judges Seminar on Internet issues
IP Webinar on Latest Developments on Absolute Grounds (Including PGIs)
Industrial property
Languages
All facets of management IT
Finance
Soft Skills (Train the Trainer, Mediation)
The continuous developement of the staff is both an end in itselft and a means to help the Office to acheive its strategic vision.
Ect.= induction and orientation toolkit, interview skills, team building, customer orientation, meeting management, team working, time management, negociation, presentation skills, effective writting, train the trainer, mediation…

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