Within the frame of the EIPIN Congress a Doctoral Meeting will be held previously with the purpose of creating a forum where PhD students from different European intellectual property institutions –Centre d\'Etudes Internationales of the Propriété Industrielle (CEIPI, Strasbourg); Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH, Zürich); Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (University of London); and Magister Lvcentinvs (University of Alicante) can present their thesis as well as debate and receive suggestions about them. This Doctoral Meeting will take place on 7 April 2011, at the Law Faculty of the University of Alicante, Spain.