Conference Agenda Day Two: Wednesday 22 September

09:00 Chairman´s Welcome And Opening Address

09:05 Business Impact Of Recent US Court Decisions

• US court decisions impact on the business
• Will your patents have a longer patent term?
• Inequitable Conduct-how to positively impact the validity of your patents

Dean Olson
Senior Corporate Patent Counsel
Pfizer, USA

09:35 The Top Ten Hot Issues In US Patent Practice

• What are the most pressing patent issues at the US court of appeals for the federal circuit?
• Perspectives on the hatch waxman act
• Predicted issues in US follow on biologics

Sherry Knowles
Former Global Chief Patent Counsel
GlaxoSmithKline, USA

10:00 Learn How To Manage IP Risks In China And Handle The Impact Of The New Chinese Law

• The new Chinese law and the latest trends of the IP protection in China
• Building a mature relationship in China to protect your IPAssets effectively
• Impact of the new law and regulations on patent prosecution and enforcement
• Overcoming challenges to enforce your IP Assets in China – lessons learned

Ming Deng Dr
Chief Representative in Europe
China Patent Agent, Hong Kong

10:30 New Ways To Manage IP Information

During this presentation, Dolcera will share the patent dashboard workbench framework with specific case studies the tool it has developed to visually collate and organize patents for research purposes

Lakshmikant Goenka
Managing Director
Dolcera, India

11:15 European Patent Validations: The Impact Of The London Agreement

• Emergence of new IP Services
• Benefits of web enabled services

11:50 Leveraging IP In Global Technology Intensive Business

• Understand the significance and cost of IP
• Leverage your IP through multiple means
• Emerging secondary market of IP – impact to product companies

Jukka Nihtila
Head of Business Development, Intellectual Property Rights
Nokia, Finland

13:30 Developing Strategies For The Use Of IP Within The Company

• How your IP strategy can reflect the business strategy
• What are healthy key performance indexes for IP organizations?
• How to achieve and maintain successful relationships between IP and R&D in global organisation

Norbert Bialas
Head of Patent Management Adhesive Technologies
Henkel KGaA & Co.KGaA, Germany

PANEL SESSION – KEY LEARNINGS FROM THE CONGRESS

14:00 Generating Revenue And Delivering On The Potential Of Your Patent Portfolio

15:10 The IP Market And The Trolls: A Blessing And A Curse?

Companies can face an IP-dilemma: Benefiting from the developing IP market and try to monetize their IP assets on the one hand and facing increasing IP risks such as claims from NPEs (Non Practicing Entities) on the other hand

• What are the strategies to successfully navigate between these challenges?
• What is the effect of trolls on the IP market?

Leo Longauer
Global Lead Intellectual Property
UBS, Switzerland

15:50 Lean For Patent Filling

• Using lean for patent filing
• Re-defining the value of patent protection
• Establishing a fully operational in-house patent department

Ingólfur Pálsson
Patent Counsel
Coloplast, Denmark

16:20 Chairman Closing Remarks

16:30 End Of Conference