Agenda
Panels, times and speakers subject to change. Initial descriptions written by IPWatchdog. Will be updated by the panel to more specifically reflect the conversation that will be had by panelists.
Sunday, Nov 13, 2022
7:00 PM ET
Speaker Dinner
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,Monday, Nov 14, 2022
8:00 AM ET
Registration & Breakfast
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,9:00 AM ET
Patents and Competition: Commercializing Innovation in the Global Ecosystem
Times are changing as our global ecosystem for commercializing innovation helps bring new technologies to market, networks grow, interconnections and transactions become more complex around standards and otherwise, all to enable vast opportunities to improve the human condition, to further competition, and to improve broad access. The policies that governments use to structure their legal systems for intellectual property, especially…
Gene Quinn
Hon. F. Scott Kieff
Times are changing as our global ecosystem for commercializing innovation helps bring new technologies to market, networks grow, interconnections and transactions become more complex around standards and otherwise, all to enable vast opportunities to improve the human condition, to further competition, and to improve broad access. The policies that governments use to structure their legal systems for intellectual property, especially…
,9:30 AM ET
The Relationship Between Standards Development, Patents and Antitrust
From the very outset, there is a tension between the standardization, and both patent and antitrust law. Antitrust laws seek to encourage competition and stamp out anti-competitive behavior, with many theories and laws developed over time to largely regard industry cooperation as inherently anti-competitive. Of course, standards development requires some degree of cooperation among market participants who must agree on…
Alden Abbott
Koren Wong-Ervin
Donald J. Rosenberg
Hon. Paul R. Michel
From the very outset, there is a tension between the standardization, and both patent and antitrust law. Antitrust laws seek to encourage competition and stamp out anti-competitive behavior, with many theories and laws developed over time to largely regard industry cooperation as inherently anti-competitive. Of course, standards development requires some degree of cooperation among market participants who must agree on…
,10:30 AM ET
11:00 AM ET
What Exactly is FRAND?
Standard Development Organizations (SDOs) exist as a mechanism for industry innovators to work together to collectively identify and select the best and most promising innovations that will become the foundation for the entire industry to build upon for years to come. Those contributing patented technologies to the development of a standard are asked to— and do agree to— provide a…
Hon. Theodore Essex
John Kolakowski
Curtis Dodd
Jon Putnam
Standard Development Organizations (SDOs) exist as a mechanism for industry innovators to work together to collectively identify and select the best and most promising innovations that will become the foundation for the entire industry to build upon for years to come. Those contributing patented technologies to the development of a standard are asked to— and do agree to— provide a…
,12:15 PM ET
High Stakes Multinational Standard Essential Patent Litigation
Patent owners are increasingly considering more complex strategies when pursuing implementers. While traditional approaches often include domestic filings at the United States International Trade Commission (ITC), as well as a companion district court cases do considerably increase leverage, some patent owners are contemplating a worldwide enforcement campaign when stakes are particularly high. Resorting to a full court press that leverages…
Shawnna Yashar
Brian Hinman
Adam Mossoff
Blair M. Jacobs
Patent owners are increasingly considering more complex strategies when pursuing implementers. While traditional approaches often include domestic filings at the United States International Trade Commission (ITC), as well as a companion district court cases do considerably increase leverage, some patent owners are contemplating a worldwide enforcement campaign when stakes are particularly high. Resorting to a full court press that leverages…
,1:15 PM ET
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,2:30 PM ET
Incentivizing the Future: How Can SMEs and Startups Compete?
Everything in the standards world starts with innovation, and all too often we lose sight of the fact that the goal of patent law and antitrust law is fundamentally is to incentivize more innovation and create a marketplace where competition is not manipulated to the advantage of those with size and power. What does it take to engage in the…
Esmael Dinan
Kenneth Stanwood
Matteo Sabattini
Enno Bibow
Everything in the standards world starts with innovation, and all too often we lose sight of the fact that the goal of patent law and antitrust law is fundamentally is to incentivize more innovation and create a marketplace where competition is not manipulated to the advantage of those with size and power. What does it take to engage in the…
,3:45 PM ET
The Enforcement of SEPs and the ITC
Without substantial investment by those who play the difficult role of innovator, there would be no standards. Of course, without technology implementers who roll out standards and cutting-edge technological advances to consumers, even the greatest advances would lay dormant and unused. But despite both implementers and innovators needing each other, perhaps because there is so much at stake, often negotiations…
Hon. Deanna Tanner Okun
Christina A. Ondrick
Paul Bartkowski
Gene Quinn
Without substantial investment by those who play the difficult role of innovator, there would be no standards. Of course, without technology implementers who roll out standards and cutting-edge technological advances to consumers, even the greatest advances would lay dormant and unused. But despite both implementers and innovators needing each other, perhaps because there is so much at stake, often negotiations…
,5:15 PM ET
Patent Pools and Standard Essential Patent Licensing
With staggering commercialization opportunities due to demonstrated technological advancement come patents— a lot of patents – and a great many of those will be standard essential patents (SEPs). Of course, when there are a lot of patents together with seemingly limitless market potential, litigation abounds. Ultimately, however, SEP patent holders and standard implementers must cooperate, not only because they both…
Kimberly Chotkowski
Nick Dudziak
William Geary
Paul Bawel
With staggering commercialization opportunities due to demonstrated technological advancement come patents— a lot of patents – and a great many of those will be standard essential patents (SEPs). Of course, when there are a lot of patents together with seemingly limitless market potential, litigation abounds. Ultimately, however, SEP patent holders and standard implementers must cooperate, not only because they both…
,6:30 PM ET
Reception
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,Tuesday, Nov 15, 2022
8:00 AM ET
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,9:00 AM ET
Enforcing Standard Essential Patents in South America
What actually transpires when litigating SEP cases in Columbia and Brazil circa 2022. This session will focus on high-profile cases either recently concluded or currently ongoing.
Carlos Olarte
Carlos Aboim
Gene Quinn
What actually transpires when litigating SEP cases in Columbia and Brazil circa 2022. This session will focus on high-profile cases either recently concluded or currently ongoing.
,10:15 AM ET
Standard Essential Patents in Europe
This session will focus on high-profile cases, news and events from the United Kingdom, Germany and elsewhere across Europe. Hotly contested issues include a concept of a “willing licensee”, what constitutes a FRAND offer by a standard essential patent (SEP) holder, a forum for establishing terms and conditions of a global license in a SEP-related dispute, an appropriate body tasked…
Inna Dahlin
Kayleigh Nauman
Thomas Gniadek
Gene Quinn
This session will focus on high-profile cases, news and events from the United Kingdom, Germany and elsewhere across Europe. Hotly contested issues include a concept of a “willing licensee”, what constitutes a FRAND offer by a standard essential patent (SEP) holder, a forum for establishing terms and conditions of a global license in a SEP-related dispute, an appropriate body tasked…
,11:15 AM ET
11:45 AM ET
The Politics, Policy and Legislation of Standard Essential Patents
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced in June 2022 that they were officially withdrawing the 2019 Policy Statement on Remedies for Standards-Essential Patents Subject to Voluntary F/RAND Commitments. However, the withdrawal does not reinstate the 2013 Policy Statement on Remedies for Standards-Essential Patents Subject to Voluntary…
Gene Quinn
Ashley Baker
John Dubiansky
Chris Israel
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced in June 2022 that they were officially withdrawing the 2019 Policy Statement on Remedies for Standards-Essential Patents Subject to Voluntary F/RAND Commitments. However, the withdrawal does not reinstate the 2013 Policy Statement on Remedies for Standards-Essential Patents Subject to Voluntary…
,12:45 PM ET
Lunch & Off-The-Record Round Table
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