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CONFERENCE
Innovation in the European Digital Single MarketThe Role of Patents
Brussels17 March 2015
Programme
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/event/conference/european-digital-single-market-role-patents
17 March 2015 – Brussels (Renaissance Hotel)
Innovation in the European Digital Single Market- The Role of Patents –
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:30 Welcome • John Bensted-Smith (Director, European Commission, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Joint Research Centre) • Megan Richards (Principal Adviser, European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology)
09:30 - 11:00 Session 1 - European Digital Single Market – the role of patents Chair: Kerstin Jorna (Director, European Commission, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) • Ruud Peters (Philips Group Innovation) • Knut Blind (Technical University Berlin, Fraunhofer Fokus) • François Arbault (European Commission, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) • Dietmar Harhoff (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition) • Thomas Graf (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 Session 2 - Patenting and digital markets - innovation, growth and employmentChair: Stuart Graham (Georgia Institute of Technology) • Grant Philpott (European Patent Office) • Nathan Wajsman (Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market) • Mariagrazia Squicciarini (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) • Patrick Hofkens (Ericsson) • Rebekka Porath (Intel) • Salvatore Torrisi (Bologna University)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30 Session 3 - Patenting of computer implemented inventionsChair: Nikolaus Thumm (European Commission, Joint Research Centre) • Clara Neppel (European Patent Office) • Stuart Graham (Georgia Institute of Technology) • Rainer Frietsch (Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI) • Jonathan Sage (IBM) • Mirko Boehm (Linux System Definition) • Nicolas Schifano (Microsoft)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 Session 4 - Patenting, standardisation and licensingChair: Tony Clayton (UK Intellectual Property Office) • Yann Ménière (Ecole des Mines) • Serge Raes (Orange) • Konstantinos Karachalios (IEEE- Standards Association) • Ashok Ganesh (CEN-CENELEC) • Heinz Polsterer (T Mobile Austria) • Roberto Dini (Sisvel)
17:30 - 18:00 Closing SessionChair: Ioannis Maghiros (European Commission, Joint Research Centre) • Lucio Picci (Bologna University) • Guido von Scheffer (TIIC - Technology, Innovation and Investment Council e.V.)
18:00 End of conference