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13:00 - 14:00 Meeting of the Scientific Committee
13:00 - 18:00 Registration of delegates

Scandic Göteborg Central - Vikingsgatan 7, 411 04 Gothenburg

15:00 - 17:00 Meeting of the Bureau
16:00 - 17:00 LIDC development workshop: Mapping the LIDC member journey
17:00 - 18:00 Meeting of the Council
18:00 - 20:00 Welcome Cocktail at the rooftop bar at Scandic Göteborg Central
19:30 - 00:00 Young Members - Nexgen - drinks and karaoke at Front Advokater law firm and clubbing at Lounge(s)
08:30 - 13:00 Registration of delegates

Scandic Göteborg Central - Vikingsgatan 7, 411 04 Gothenburg

09:00 - 09:45 Opening session

Welcome speeches:

Christophe Rapin- President of the LIDC

Giovanni Gozzo - President of the Nordic Group of the LIDC

Lars Henriksson, President of the Swedish Competition- & Marketing Law Association and Professor of Law at the Stockholm School of Economics

Robert Moldén - Vice President of the Swedish Competition- & Marketing Law Association: Gothenburg’s Four Hundred Years of History in Four Minutes

Rikard Jermsten, Director-General of the Swedish Competition Authority

09:45 - 11:00 Introduction to the New Horizontal Guidelines of the European Commission

Annemarie ter Heegde - Deputy Head of Unit in the European Commission´s Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP).

11:30 - 12:30 Panel discussion on “Greenwashing in advertising”

Nicole Kar, Maria Wasatjerna

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:15 Introduction to the Role of Buyer power under EU Competition Law

Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui, Associate Professor at the University of Bergen

Per Karlsson, Partner at Per Karlsson & Co law firm and former Chief Legal Officer at the Swedish Competition Authority

Anders Asplund, public procurement law expert at Per Karlsson & Co law firm and former Chief Legal Officer at the Swedish National Agency for Public Procurement

15:45 - 17:00 Panel discussion on Current IP law issues of great practical significance For in-house counsel
18:15 - 19:15 Boat tour with drinks to the Gala dinner
19:15 - 00:00 Gala dinner at Långedrag Värdshus

Speech on private enforcement by Rainer Becker, Head of the Unit European Competition Network and Private Enforcement

23:59 - 03:00 Clubbing at Trädgår´n - Nexgen
09:00 - 11:00 Working Session - Question A
09:00 - 11:00 Working Session - Question B
11:30 - 12:30 Panel discussion on the right to collect, access and transfer data
12:30 - 13:30 General Meeting, Council Meeting
13:30 - 16:20 Guided tour on Paddan boats and lunch at Liseberg
16:30 - 17:30 Personal development workshop: How to better empathize with your client?
17:00 - 21:00 Opera

Opera and drinks at the Opera

09:30 - 15:00 Excursion to Carlstens fästning in Marstrand

Transfer by bus to Marstrand for a guided tour at Carlstens fästning and lunch at The Grand Hotel Marstrand

We are very happy to inform you that the next LIDC Congress will be held in Gothenburg on September 21-24

The questions that will be discussed are the followings :

Question A

Do recent developments in enforcement, case-law, and guidance from competition authorities and regulators make the delineation between legitimate and efficient purchasing and supply arrangements and infringing conduct sufficiently clear in practice that businesses and their advisors know how to stay on the right side of the law?

Jean-Louis Fourgoux will be the International Rapporteur.


Background/Context:

We are seeing consumer prices rising at pace globally, central banks have increased rates, and events such as the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and Brexit continue to stress supply chains. 

Against this backdrop, it is important that companies are able to distinguish clearly between legitimate and efficient conduct and infringements of the applicable rules and to assess the impact on their commercial relationships.

In addition to focusing on sellers and the conditions on which they sell their products or services to buyers, buyers’ conduct in their interactions with suppliers and markets when purchasing goods and services has recently come under increased scrutiny from competition law, enforcement and guidance (e.g. the Horizontal Guidelines).  

From co-ordinated conduct by buyers, such as joint purchasing/buying alliances (e.g. rules for purchasing alliances in the food retail sector in France), buyers’ cartels and purchase price fixing (e.g. the Ethylene and Car Battery Recycling cases), to unilateral conduct by buyers that hold substantial purchasing power. As regards the latter, new rules and cases (e.g. in Belgium) have considered the “abuse of economic dependence”, which targets situations where a company abuses the relative economic dependence of another company (supplier or customer).

Different jurisdictions have taken a range of approaches, which have evolved and changed over time. What is the current situation in these jurisdictions and what are the LIDC National Chapters’ and members’ respective experiences – is the line between legitimate and infringing conduct sufficiently clear or is further guidance from authorities and courts required?

Question B

What mechanisms exist to avoid over-broad trademarks and address concerns that the trademark registers are clogged (e.g. bad faith in Sky v SkyKick; requirements forevidence of use), and are these mechanisms effective?

Ingrida Karina-Berzina will be the International Rapporteur.

Background/Context:

Trademark owners understandably want to protect as widely as possible around their brand. However, this can lead to cluttered trademark registers which increase the cost (deadweight loss) of launching a new brand, and may restrict dynamic competition particularly from smaller players.

Different jurisdictions have taken a range of approaches, which have evolved and changed over time: from requirements of use (and/or evidence of use) to potential revocation for non-use; from requirements of filing by class and limiting scope within class to requirements that filings are not made in bad faith. For example, bad faith has been an issue in recent cases (from Hasbro through Sky v SkyKick which still pending in the English courts).

What are the LIDC National Chapters’ and members’ respective experiences in the effectiveness of these mechanisms, or other rules and practices, in seeking to allow the ‘right’ scope of protection?

Our speakers
Anders Asplund
Public procurement law expert at Per Karlsson & Co law firm and
former Chief Legal Officer at the Swedish National Agency for Public Procurement
Annemarie ter Heegde
Deputy Head of Unit in the European Commission´s Directorate
General for Competition (DG COMP)
Christophe Rapin
President of the LIDC
Giovanni Gozzo
President of the Nordic Group of the LIDC
Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui
Associate Professor at the University of Bergen
Lars Henriksson
President of the Swedish Competition- & Marketing Law Association
and Professor of law at the Stockholm School of Economics
Maria Wasatjerna
Partner and co-head for the Competition & Regulatory practice in Helsinki
Nicole Kar
Global Head of our Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group
Per Karlsson
Partner at Per Karlsson & Co law firm and
former Chief Legal Officer at the Swedish Competition Authority
Rainer Becker
Head of the Unit European Competition Network and Private Enforcement
Rikard Jermsten
Director-General of Swedish Competition Law
Robert Moldén
Vice President of the Swedish Competition- & Marketing Law Association:
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