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Gambro, Sweden
Anders Onshage
Director
IP Prosecution
Anders has been working with IP in general, and with patents in particular, for 20 years. Anders currently holds a position as Director IP Prosecution at Gambro, a global leader in developing, manufacturing and supplying products, therapies and services for In-center Care and Self Care Hemodialysis, Peritoneal Dialysis, Renal Intensive Care and Hepatic Care. Anders has been an Examiner at the European Patent Office for six years and, before joining Gambro, he held various Director positions within the IP group of Ericsson with focus on both operational and strategically aspects of IP. Anders is also a member of Examination Committee III of the European Qualifying Examination.
Unilever, UK
Matthew Goodwin
Chief Patent
Counsel, and Global Head of Patents
Since 2009, Matt has had overall global responsibility for the patent function at Unilever, and in this capacity, leads a staff of patent attorneys and support personnel at locations in the UK, Netherlands, US, India and China. He has over twenty years of extensive experience as a corporate patent practitioner providing the full spectrum of IP support to his corporate clients, initially working for Johnson & Johnson in the US, and more recently for ICI and Henkel.
Zealand Pharma, Denmark
Henrik Mathiassen
Head of Patent Department
Extensive experience in managing IP within biotech and pharma industry at Novo Nordisk, Osteopro, Nordic Bioscience, Exiqon, Nycomed and Zealand Pharma. Has successfully coordinated litigation in national IP disputes and been involved in several European oppositions and appeals. Managed several broad patent portfolios and ensured issue of key claims to protect potential and marketed lead candidates. Managed life-cycle IP for a key products and ensured extended IP protection on major markets.
Pfizer, USA
Dean Olson
Senior Corporate
Patent Counsel
Mr. Olson has over 25 years experience in the patent field. He has been with Pfizer Inc. since 1989 and is currently a Senior Corporate Patent Counsel responsible for the cardiovascular/metabolic therapeutic area with additional responsibilities in the pain therapeutic area. Mr. Olson is the current or past Product Patent Attorney with IP strategic responsibility for drug candidates/products spanning the full drug development continuum including CADUET, NORVASC and apixaban (cardiovascular), torcetrapib/atorvastatin (atherosclerosis), VIAGRA (sex health) and darifenacin (incontinence). He was/is also a member of global multi-functional product teams for those products. Prior to Pfizer, Mr. Olson was employed at United Technologies Corp. where he did licensing and prepared and prosecuted chemical, mechanical, and software patent applications.
Mr. Olson has an Undergraduate Degree (Chemistry) and a Law Degree from the University of Connecticut and an M.B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Nokia, Finland
Jukka Nihtilä
Head of Business
Development, Intellectual Property Rights
Dr. Jukka Nihtilä is the Head of IP Business Development at Nokia, responsible for patent acquisitions, divestitures and external investments.
Dr. Nihtilä received his degrees of Master of Science (Eng.), Licentiate of Technology and Doctor of Technology at the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), all in Industrial Management. Prior to joining Nokia, Dr. Nihtilä worked for Accenture, THESEUS Institute, France and CERN, Switzerland in several international research projects dealing with innovation management and product development. His 12 year experience at Nokia covers business development in mobile services and applications, corporate venturing and strategic use of IPR.
Hempel, Denmark
Frants Buchwald
Head of
Patents
Frants has been working with IP in general and with patents in particular, for 15 years. Frants has the global responsibility for patent activities at Hempel A/S, a global paint company with R&D centres in Europe, China, South Korea, Singapore, Middle East and US. Frants has build Hempel´s patent function, initially working freelance for the company. Prior to that he worked for Hempel as a formulation specialist. He has recently focused on increasing patent awareness within the company and getting a mindset of looking for respectively risk and opportunity fully integrated with the business processes. Frants has a Master Degree in Chemical Engineering.
European Patent Office (EPO)
Ingwer Koch
Director, Head of the Patent Law Directorate
Ingwer Koch is Director, Head of the Patent Law Directorate in the European Patent Office (EPO) based in Munich, Germany. His main responsibilities are the legal advice of the examining and opposition divisions and the involvement as legally qualified member in examining and opposition divisions in all fields of patent law. As other main tasks he is involved in the development of the European patent law and advises the Top-Management of the EPO in all fields of patent law, including the development of the "Scenarios for the future": "How might Intellectual Property regimes evolve during the next decades?" In this respect he is primarily involved in developing the suitable patentability standards for the future and in increasing the procedural efficiency. Most recently he was involved in the amendments to the Implementing Regulations, and he is chairman of the SACEPO (Standing Advisory Committee of the EPO) Working Groups on Rules and Guidelines for Examination. He is an experienced lawyer who has worked for 28 years in the field of patent law, first in the German Federal Ministry of Justice, and since 1989 in the EPO.
Snecma
Jean-Marc Brunel
Head of Intellectual Property
For 2 years now, Jean-Marc has been leading the Snecma Intellectual Property Organization. This organization helps Snecma transforming its innovations into Intellectual Property Rights to achieve control of its markets and keep pace with the competition The 300 patent applications filed every year and the 10 000 patents/pending in portfolio make it one of the top French filers and materialize the high level of investment in R&D, the innovation mindset of its employees and its willingness to fully use IP instruments. Before having this current position, Jean-Marc has gained a 20 year-Intellectual Property-experience by Airbus, both in France and Germany, as Head of Patent Operations. Jean-Marc is French, gratuated Engineer in Electrics, post-graduated in Innovation Management and Patent Litigation in Europe and French and European Patent Attorney. He is also a recognized lecturer in some MBAs and Executives programs.
One of the world's leading manufacturers of aircraft and rocket engines, Snecma designs, develops, produces and markets, alone or in partnership, engines for civil and military airplanes, launch vehicles and satellites. Snecma is well known worldwide for its excellence in the manufacture of aircraft and rocket engines. And our expertise extends beyond just making them. Snecma offers a complete range of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for both civil and military aircraft engines, used by airlines, armed forces and other operators. Snecma benefits also from the synergies generated by SAFRAN, leading international high-technology group with three core businesses: aerospace, defense and security. Operating worldwide, the Group has 54,500 employees and annual sales exceeding 10 billion euros.
Vestas Windsystems, Denmark
Erik Müller, IPR Director
Erik Müller has a Ms. degree in physics and a Bc. degree in Computer Science. Before starting in the IP world he was a teacher in the danish gymnasium. The carreer in the IP world started at Danfoss, where he worked as patent professional for 7 years. In 2005 he joined Vestas, and is now head of the IPR department.
Ericsson, Germany
Gabriele Mohsler, Patent Attorney
Gabriele Mohsler is a European and German Patent Attorney working for Ericsson. After having studied electronic engineering at the university in Aachen, she started her career as a patent attorney with Alcatel. In 1997 she joined Ericsson and is there responsible for a patent portfolio, including building up, defending and licensing it. She is also active in lobbying activities for Ericsson
GN ReSound, Denmark
Nikolai Bisgaard, Vice President IPR
Nikolai Bisgaard has been working in the hearing aid industry for many years and was R&D manager for GN ReSound as for 15 year. He now focuses primarily on IPR matters; patents, trademarks, licensing, and litigation. Nikolai Bisgaard has authored several chapters of the Handbook of European Intellectual Property Management focusing on cost effective IPR management.
Coloplast, Denmark
Ingólfur Pálsson,
Patent Counsel
Ingolfur has been working in the Corporate Patents division at Coloplast A/S in Denmark for 3 years, having previous employment at a small private practice patent bureau. At Coloplast A/S he has been responsible for the prosecution and filing of a large portion of the mechanical and physics part of the patent portfolio within Continence Care, and has had an important role in a number of different patent litigation procedures on behalf of Coloplast A/S. Ingolfur has had an active role in the streamlining and optimization of the interaction between R&D, Patent managers and Patent Counsels within Coloplast in order to minimize the requirements of valuable resources within R&D without reducing the quality of R&D input required for a valuable patent portfolio.
Tetra Pak, Sweden
Peter Berg, VP Legal &
Tax for Development & Engineering
More than 15 years as in-house IP Counsel for a broad spectrum of electrical and mechanical engineering businesses including 9 years managing various IP functions lead to a rich experience in aligning IPR portfolios with the particular business needs and competitive environment. Peter specialised in the management of large IP portfolios and the transactional part of the IP value chain, including licensing, acquisition and sale of IPR and litigation. Peter is European and German Patent Attorney and in charge of IPR at Tetra Pak, previously Chief Licensing Counsel at Siemens AG.
Managing Intellectual Property
James Nurton, Managing Editor
James Nurton has worked for Managing Intellectual Property since 1996, and is responsible for the content of Managing IP magazine and managingip.com. He also edits the INTA Daily News, AIPPI Congress News and AIPLA Daily Report, published at their respective meetings, and the bimonthly MARQUES newsletter. James contributes a regular interview with European trade mark practitioners to OHIM’s Alicante News and has moderated and spoken at numerous IP events and web seminars worldwide. He is a member of INTA’s Online Reference Committee.
James has a BA in modern history from Oxford University and an MA in historical research from Birkbeck College, London. He trained as a journalist with Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC, the parent company of Managing IP, and lives in London.
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