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This year’s CTMAI-Boat Cruise took
place on Tuesday, May 9 2006 during the INTA Annual Meeting in Toronto.

About 120 guests had gathered on board the Mariposa Belle to meet people, enjoy the sunshine and, of course, taste Bavarian beer. As always, members of the CTM Advisory Initiative, Munich, had prepared a quiz on recent decisions by the Office for Harmonization (OHIM) on European trademark and design issues.

As can be seen from the pictures, the atmosphere on board was very enjoyable, offering excellent opportunities for meeting people and renewing old friendships.

We are amazed how many of you seem to make our Boat Cruise a fixed date in your crowded INTA schedule. Thanks for coming, and we will do our best for next year`s cruise in Chicago!


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GUESTS

 

    


Lunch on deck



Johan Norderyd and Mladen Vukmir before boarding


Guests in front of the Mariposa

 

  

 

 

 

 



Guests on deck, listening to the quiz. Despite the attentive attitude, rather surprising amounts of bavarian beer were consumed on this short trip

 


Shari Cantor and Monica Wolf de Camhi


  


Guest in front of CN tower


Donald and Lynn Sullivan with Claudia Stangl

 


Astrid Wyckoff, with the Toronto Skyline in the background
   

 

SPEAKERS and CTMAI MEMBERS

 

    


Peter Müller www.propat.de

 


Christian Thomas (left)
www.kuhnen-wacker.com


Stephan Degmair
www.hhlaw.com



  

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Patrick Baronikians … and his calf-warmers
www.hsspatent.de

 


CTMAI members with this year`s winner


Martin Friese (right)
www.afh-patent.de


Reta Haselhorst (center) www.propat.de

 


Sanna Heurung and Utz Kador
www.kadorpartner.de



Josef Bockhorni (left) www.patguard.de


Alfons Hofstetter
www.hsspatent.de

   

 

PRIZES & AWARDS

 

    

The knowledge of European trademark and design issues among our guests had apparently increased since last year: Three participants got every single answer right, while 15 (!) answered 5 out of 6 correctly.


Beate Lalk-Menzel (right), a colleague of last year`s winner Ingo Brückner, of DaimlerChrysler AG, had the duty to draw the winners:

 


5th place: Beate Schmidt of the German Patent and Trademark Office

  

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4th place: Laszlo Berczes (left), with Vladimir Anohin (right) cheering




3rd place: Luis Ignacio Olmedo Bustos

 


2nd place: Bill Seiter, with Patrick Baronikians and Peter Müller

 

If you do not find your photograph here,
look at our photo gallery!

  


1st place: Jean-Nicolas Delage, of BCF, with his prizes: football, scarf and tricot. This year`s prizes were all soccer-related in honour of the forthcoming world cup in Germany.

 

 



Sanna Heurung and Reta Haselhorst with Jean-Nicolas in his prize tricot.