PTMG organises two conferences on pharmaceutical trademarks and related subjects every year, one each in the Spring and Autumn. The Spring Conference is a one and a half-day conference and incorporates the Annual General Meeting. The Autumn Conference is the main PTMG annual conference and is a full two-day conference.
Future Conferences
Spring 2025
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Booking will commence in January 2025
Autumn 2025
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Booking will commence in June 2025
Conference papers
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St Julian’s, Malta – Autumn 2024
“Crafting brand protection from a tiny island to the world”
An IP overview and litigation in Malta – Luigi Sansone (Salomone & Sansone)
The strategic position of Malta and the fight against counterfeits – George Agius (Ministry of Finance, Malta)
Founders Lecture – Mergers and Acquisitions in the healthcare industry – Lisa Dellamura (Merck & Co. Inc. Rahway, NJ. USA)
AI and IP – where are we now and where are we going? – Barry Scannell (William Fry)
Bad faith trademarks and unfair competition in South Korea – Sungdoo Nahm (Barun IP)
Pharmaceutical Lifecycle Management – Brian Frasca (Brand Institute)
Personalised Medicine – what does it mean for brand owners in the pharma industry – Linda Chang (Rouse)
Combating Online Counterfeiting: Strategies and Lessons for Africa – Hanh Nguyen (REACT)
Online Outlaws: Trademark enforcement challenges (and solutions) from India – Bruce Longbottom (Lilly), Shwetasree Majumder (Fidus Law Chambers)
International Case Round Up – David Stone (A&O Shearman)
Digital Services Act – what does it mean for brand owners in the pharmaceutical industry – Mike Sweeney (Corsearch)
Pathways to settlement – Brooks Bruneau (Fisher Broyles)
Future Forward – The Impact of AI in the Pharmaceutical Trademark Space – Nicholas Foot (Sandoz), Francois Neuville (Clarivate)
Past Conferences
Autumn 2024
Date: October 16th to 19th 2024
Location: St Julian’s, Malta
Programme: ‘Crafting brand protection from a tiny island to the world’
Spring 2024
Date: March 25th and 26th 2024
Location: Valencia, Spain
Programme: ‘Paella and iptizers, time to taste what the IP world is cooking!’
Autumn 2023
Date: October 4th to 7th 2023
Location: Athens, Greece
Programme: ‘PTMG at the Birthplace of Ethics – Time for some Principle Reflections on Pharmaceutical Trade Marks’
Spring 2023
Date: March 20th and 21st 2023
Location: Brighton, UK
Programme: ‘Piers, Pavilions & Pharmaceuticals In Post Modern Brighton’
Autumn 2022
Date: October 5th to 8th 2022
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Programme: ‘PTMG on the road again – Trademarks Back To The Future’
Spring 2022
Date: March 21st and 22nd 2022
Location:@home
Programme: ‘Digital, Nutrical, Intellectual, Cynical – Pharmaceutical Trade Marks in the Social (Media) Era’
Autumn 2021
Date: October 7th and 8th 2021
Location:@home
Programme: ‘Face to face in a virtual world with Artificial Intelligence for IP’
Spring 2021
Date: March 15th and 16th 2021
Location:@home
Programme: ‘Testing Times in the Twenties – Vaccines & Brexit’
Autumn 2020
Date: October 8th and 9th 2020
Location:@home
Programme: ‘Digital Healthcare – Implications for IP’ and ‘Parallel Imports and Free riding with impunity’
Autumn 2019
Conference No.: 99th Conference
Date: 2nd to 5th October 2019
Location: Berlin, Germany
Programme: ‘Pharmaceutical Trademarks @ Checkpoint Charlie’
Spring 2019
Conference No.: 98th Conference
Date: 11th to 12th March 2019
Location: Rome, Italy
Programme: ‘Pharmaceutical Trade Marks MMXIX – La Dolce Vita è Finita’
Autumn 2018
Conference No.: 97th Conference
Date: 3rd to 6th October 2018
Location: Dubrovnik, Croatia
Programme: ‘Pearls of Trade Mark Wisdom from the Pearl of Adriatic’
Spring 2018
Conference No.: 96th Conference
Date: 19th to 20th March 2018
Location: Porto, Portugal
Programme: ‘Porto: First Port of call for Pharmaceutical Trade Marks’
Autumn 2017
Conference No.: 95th Conference
Date: 4th to 7th October 2017
Location: Toronto, Canada
Programme: ‘Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Today – As Tough as a Hockey Game!’
Spring 2017
Conference No.: 94th Conference
Date: 13th to 14th March 2017
Location: Paris, France
Programme: ‘Brexit, Digital, Slogans, Champagne and Biosimilars – a Bouquet of Trade Mark and Related Matters’
Autumn 2016
Conference No.: 93rd Conference
Date: 5th to 8th October 2016
Location: Oslo, Norway
Programme: ‘A Taste of Trade Marks’
Spring 2016
Conference No.: 92nd Conference
Date: 14th to 15th March 2016
Location: The Savoy Hotel, London, UK
Programme: ‘Pharmaceutical Trade Marks on the London Stage’
Autumn 2015
Conference No.: 91st Conference
Date: 30th Sept. to 2nd Oct. 2015
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Programme: ‘A Polish Rhapsody – Stay Tuned in Pharmaceutical Trade Marks’
Spring 2015
Conference No.: 90th Conference
Date: 23rd to 24th March 2015
Location: Venice, Italy
Programme: ‘Paddling Through the Pressures on Pharmaceutical Trade Marks’
Autumn 2014
Conference No.: 89th Conference
Date: 8th to 10th October 2014
Location: The Drake, Chicago, IL, USA
Programme: ‘The Multi-Faceted Personality of a Pharmaceutical Trade Mark’
Spring 2014
Conference No.: 88th Conference
Date: 17th to 18th March 2014
Location: Savoy Hotel, London, United Kingdom
Programme: ‘Realities in Realms of Regulation of Pharm. Trade Marks’
Autumn 2013
Conference No.: 87th Conference
Date: 2nd to 5th October 2013
Location: Hilton Hotel, Vienna, Austria
Programme: ‘Barriers to a Global Brand’
Spring 2013
Conference No.: 86th Conference
Date: 18th to 19th March 2013
Location: Kempinski Hotel, Hamburg, Germany
Programme: ‘All Change! Exploring Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Today and Tomorrow’
Autumn 2012
Conference No.: 85th Conference
Date: 3rd to 5th October 2012
Location: Rey Juan Carlos Hotel, Barcelona, Spain
Programme: ‘Realities for Pharmaceutical Trade Marks in the Physical and Virtual World’
Spring 2012
Conference No.: 84th Conference
Date: 19th and 20th March 2012
Location: Conrad Hotel, Brussels
Programme: ‘Policy, Practice & Pitfalls – Pharmaceutical Trade Marks in Europe and Beyond’
Autumn 2011
Conference No.: 83rd Conference
Date: 12th to 15th October 2011
Location: Intercontinental Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic
Programme: ‘Pharmaceutical Trade Marks in a Shrinking World’
Spring 2011
Conference No.: 82nd Conference
Date: 21st and 22nd March 2011
Location: The Grand Hotel, Brighton, England
Programme: ‘Changes in a New Decade’
Autumn 2010
Conference No.: 81st Conference
Date: 29th September to 1st October 2010
Location: Athenaeum InterContinental Hotel, Athens
Programme: ‘Today, Tomorrow and the Future’
Spring 2010
Conference No.: 80th Conference
Date: 22nd to 23rd March 2010
Location: Hilton Hotel, Liverpool, England
Programme: “Development, Debate and Discussion ‘On the Docks'”
Autumn 2009
Conference No.: 79th Conference
Date: 30th September to 3rd October 2009
Location: Corinthia Hotel, Lisbon
Programme: ‘Change, Challenge and Compare! Perspectives on Pharmaceutical Trade Marks’
Spring 2009
Conference No.: 78th Conference
Date: 23rd to 24th March 2009
Location: Intercontinental Hotel, Geneva
Programme: ‘Industry Meets Institutions – The World of NGOs and IGOs’
Autumn 2008
Conference No.: 77th Conference
Date: 1st to 4th October 2008
Location: The Intercontinental Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Programme: ‘New Lamps for Old – Letting the Genie Out of the Bottle’
Spring 2008
Conference No.: 76th Conference
Date: 31st March to 1st April 2008
Location: The Four Seasons Hotel, Dublin, Ireland
Programme: ‘Creating, Building and Maintaining Brand Equity’
Autumn 2007
Conference No.: 75th Conference
Date: 3rd to 5th October 2007
Location: Intercontinental Hotel, Budapest, Hungary
Programme: ‘Law, Lore and Language’
Spring 2007
Conference No.: 74th Conference
Date: Law, Lore and Language
Location: Sheraton Grand Hotel, Edinburgh, Scotland
Programme: ‘Virtually trade marks – ITs and bits’
Autumn 2006
Conference No.: 73rd Conference
Date: 4th to 6th October 2006
Location: Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston , USA
Programme: ‘Disorder on the borders – grays, fakes and generics’
Spring 2006
Conference No.: 72nd Conference
Date: 20th and 21st March 2006
Location: Riverbank Park Plaza Hotel, London, UK
Autumn 2005
Conference No.: 71st Conference
Date: 5th to 7th October 2005
Location: Martinez Hotel, Cannes, France
Programme: ‘Public rights, private rights – a dilemma?’
Spring 2005
Conference No.: 70th Conference
Date: 21st and 22nd March 2005
Location: Arabella Sheraton Grand Hotel, Munich, Germany
Programme: ‘Trade marks – usage and abusage’
Autumn 2004
Conference No.: 69th Conference
Date: 6th to 8th October 2004
Location: Melia Castilla Hotel Madrid, Spain
Programme: ‘The theoretical and practical approach to trade mark licensing, exhaustion and other current challenges’
Spring 2004
Conference No.: 68th Conference
Date: 22nd and 23rd March 2004
Location: Langham Hilton Hotel London, UK
Programme: ‘Trade mark rights are one thing, their effective enforcement is another’