EURO LAWCONFERENCE 2018
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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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