WIPO

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Pilar Montero is Commercial Law Professor of the University of Alicante, expert in Intellectual Property. PhD in from the Complutense University of Madrid. She is the Director of the Magister Lvcentinvs, Master in Intellectual Property and Digital Innovation at the University of Alicante, ranked as the First Specialized Master in Spain, program celebrating this year its 31st edition.

She is member of the GIs Research Unit of the Commercial Law Department of the University of Alicante, leading the Academic Specialist Diploma: “Specialist Academic Title on Distinctive Quality Signs and Plant Breeding”, a unique university certificate entirely dedicated to geographical indications and plant varieties.

Pilar Montero is an expert in intellectual property, mainly in geographical indications, collective trademarks, certification marks, and cultural heritage. She has widely published books and articles in several scientific journals.

She is regular speaker in different national and international forums on geographical indications, trademarks and other intellectual property rights organized by public and private institutions and national offices at international level.

She is consultant and member of expert committees in several public and private institutions. She provides legal opinions for public and private bodies, producers associations and Governments on geographical indications and trademarks.

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Antony\r\nTaubman is currently Director at the Intellectual Property, Government Procurement\r\nand Competition Division of the World Trade\r\nOrganization.
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\r\nFrom 2002 to 2009, he\r\nwas Director, Global Intellectual Property Issues Division of WIPO\r\n(including\r\nthe Traditional Knowledge Division and Life Sciences Program). After a\r\ndiplomatic career, he left the\r\nAustralian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in 2001 to join the\r\nnewly\r\nformed Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture, at the Australian\r\nNational University, teaching and researching on\r\ninternational IP law. From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Taubman was\r\nDirector of the International Intellectual Property Section of DFAT. He has held\r\npostgraduate\r\nteaching appointments at several universities include curriculum design and\r\nteaching\r\nat the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University, and Queensland\r\nUniversity\r\nof Technology, as well as numerous contributions to other educational and\r\ntraining programs in many countries.

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\r\nA registered patent\r\nattorney, Mr. Taubman worked in private practice in the law of patents,\r\ntrademarks\r\nand designs in Melbourne in the 1980s. In 2008, the Rockefeller Foundation\r\nawarded\r\nhim a Bellagio residential fellowship for his work on TRIPS and public policy\r\nissues.

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