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JUNE 14 & 15 2018, MUNICH

EURO LAWCONFERENCE 2018

DAY ONE DAY TWO

09.30 Chair’s introduction by Managing IP

09.40 Legal tech fundamentals

• Introduction to legal technology• Underlying technological developments• Application examples for legal technology• Market surveyGernot Halbleib, legal tech consultant, member of the executive faculty,Bucerius Law School

11.00 Coffee

11.30 Legal tech: Applications in intellectual property

• Legal tech strategies• Challenges in the future• Challenges solved by legal technology• Degree of automation to be expected• How will outsourcing of processes work?• Budget for legal tech? Torsten Pfeifer, European and German patent attorney, director patent unitcontinental Europe, Ericsson

Jochen Herr, partner, Baker McKenzieAmit Alagh, product manager, Wolters KluwerAnja Kasper, IP-manager patents, European patent attorney, Evonik

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Prosecuting and enforcing patents related to the “Internet of things” and “Industry 4.0”

• Challenges emerging from new disruptive technologies• New development with computer implemented inventions Internetof things

• Looking to the future of IoT and develop comprehensive licensingstrategy

Michele Baccelli, partner, Hoffmann EitleThomas Buchholz, corporate innovation, Intellectual Property, BSHHausgeräte

Edmund Walsh, shareholder, Wolf GreenfieldLuke McLeroy, vice president, business development, Avanci

15.30 Coffee

16.00 Artificial intelligence and IP

• Fundamentals/Definition• Inventorship and AI• Applications in industry (such as autonomous driving)Dominik Scheible, partner, Hoffmann EitleSean Harte, vice president, senior managing counsel, MastercardAndrew Tibbetts, shareholder, Wolf GreenfieldDenis Doehler, European patent attorney, IBM

17.00 Close of day one

17.30 Conference dinner, networking and 2018 FIFA World Cup screening

09.30 News from the EPO appeal boards

• Procedural and structural changes• New challenges regarding enabling disclosure and inventivestep (for example in case of second medical use)

• Making the best of proceedings

Thorsten Bausch, partner, Hoffmann EitleStéphane Drouin, chief IP counsel, UCBCorinna Sundermann, senior vice president intellectual propertymanagement, Fresenius Kabi Deutschland

11.00 Coffee

11.30 Latest developments at German 1st instance courts

• Latest case updates: application to your portfolio• What is the new FRAND injunction?• EU Commission on SEP licensing

Mike Gruber, German attorney-at-law, patent litigation & licensing,Hoffmann Eitle

Oliver Schön, judge, Regional Court of MunichClaudia Tapia Garcia, director IPR policy & legal academic research, RIPLstrategy & portfolio management, Ericsson

Matthias Schneider, chief licensing officer, Audi

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Claim construction and scope of protection in Germany

and the UK

• Latest decisions on scope of protection in Germany and the UK• Drawing comparisons between the scope of protection of patentclaims in Germany versus UK

Christian Holger Folz, partner, Hoffmann EitleKlaus Bacher, deputy presiding judge of the senate for patent cases,German Federal Court of Justice

Michael Fysh QC SC, head of intellectual property, 8 New Square

15.15 Coffee

15.45 Mediation and arbitration in IP

• Effective dispute resolution mechanisms in Europe• Arbitration and mediation for SEP cases• Enforcement of arbitration judgements

Esther Pfaff, counsel, Hoffmann EitleFriederike Heckmann, senior patent counsel, BayerSteve Faraji, senior manager, AudiAxel Walz, senior research fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation andCompetition

16.45 Close of day two

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