Meet the Speakers:

Thomas J. Burger has been a Partner with Wood Herron & Evans since January 1994. He is Leader of the firm's Post Grant Proceedings and Strategies practice group and a Member of the IPO's Patent Office Inter Partes Proceedings Committee. Tom began practicing Intellectual Property law with Wood Herron & Evans in 1986, after graduating from Notre Dame Law School.

Tom’s practice primarily involves the acquisition, enforcement, and defense of patent and trademark rights. During the past 15 years, Tom has been directly involved in several complex litigations that have resulted in multi-million dollar settlement recoveries for clients of the firm. During this same time window, he also has successfully defended a number of firm clients, using strategies that have achieved dismissal with relatively little or no fees or costs incurred during U.S. discovery. In this context Tom has substantial experience with USPTO re-examination.

Jean-Michel Careil is CEO of INTELLIXIR SARL and its sister company in U.S.: INTELLIXIR LLC. Previous to INTELLIXIR, Jean-Michel was Information professional at CEA (French Atomic Agency) where he was responsible of Information Management. He has a background in Nuclear Sciences, Medical Imaging and Information Management. He received a Bachelor's Degree in Nuclear Sciences and Technology, a Bachelor's Degree in Information Management and a Master's degree in Strategic Information, Technology Watch and Competitive intelligence from Marseille University.

Ms. Chien-Hale is a U.S. attorney specializing in patent and other forms of intellectual property protection in the United States and abroad. She is currently the Director of Intellectual Property Legal Affairs for Asia Pacific at Eaton Corp.

Prior to Eaton, she was the Senior Patent Counsel/China Coordinator for Apple Inc. In addition to her roles as in-house counsel, she also has private practice experiences at law firms, including her own practice, Baker & McKenzie’s Hong Kong office, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and Fish & Richardson.

Ms. Chien-Hale has substantial technical knowledge in a variety of electrical and electro-mechanical arts, having drafted and prosecuted patent applications in telecommunication, software, wireless and Internet-enabled devices, language-based data processing, semiconductor processing and computer-related mechanical devices. She was also involved in a number of intellectual property litigation cases, including cases in the International Trade Commission and the U.S. District Court, relating to patent infringements and trade secrets violation.

Ms. Chien-Hale has lectured and written, in both English and Chinese, on the topics of international intellectual property protection and the Chinese constitutional structure. She is also an active participant in the professional organizations. For the American Bar Association, she has served as committee chairs, task force chairs, and liaisons to other organizations. She is also served as Interest Group chairs for the American Society of International Law.

Farisha Constable is a Senior Brand Protection Lawyer at the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games & Paralympic Games (LOCOG). Before joining LOCOG in 2006, Farisha was in-house IP/IT Counsel at Nominet. Farisha is now responsible for protecting the London 2012, Olympic and Paralympic brands in the UK and this includes responsibility for the London 2012 intellectual property programme, anti-counterfeiting, ticket touting and tackling ambush marketing - making sure LOCOG’s legal rights are understood, respected and effectively enforced.

Dave Cooper is the Director, Global Anti-Counterfeiting Program at Hewlett-Packard and leads the global fight against counterfeiting across the full range of HP’s portfolios including imaging & printing supplies, hardware and software products. A former law enforcement professional with extensive experience of international organized crime investigations and private sector anti-counterfeiting across the optical disk, pharmaceutical and IT industries. Dave heads up a global team of in excess of 420 people working to protect HP from counterfeiting.

Robert Cote is a principal at McKool Smith and head of the firm's New York office. He is a nationally recognised intellectual property litigator and trial lawyer. Mr. Cote has handled significant patent cases in courts throughout the United States, including federal courts in California, Delaware, New York, Texas, Virginia, and elsewhere. Mr. Cote's jury wins include a take-nothing defense victory in Texas for defendant Universal Instruments and a multimillion-dollar judgment in Connecticut for plaintiff Applied Biosystems. His clients range from members of the Fortune 500 to emerging companies and individuals, both foreign and domestic. Mr. Cote represents clients in numerous industries and technical disciplines, including computer, software, telecommunications, Internet, semiconductor, electronics, automotive, medical devices, and biotechnology among others. He is a registered patent attorney with the USPTO and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.

Matt’s expertise cover the technical areas of physics, engineering, electronics and software, with specialisations in telecommunications, wireless communication, photonic devices and semiconductor technology.

Matt has a wealth of experience representing major multi-national corporations in multi-party Opposition and Appeal proceedings before the European Patent Office, including a period of three years based in Munich. He also has a passion for working with British, high-growth technology businesses, particularly in the innovation hubs of London, Cambridge and Southampton, helping companies develop effective intellectual property strategies and negotiating successfully during acquisition due diligence.

Matt qualified as a Chartered Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney in 1998, winning the Gill Prize for the highest overall mark in the British qualifying examinations. Matt joined Harrison Goddard Foote in 2009 as a partner in the London office. Matt is a member of the Council of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, for whom he is Chairman of the Joint Business Practice Committee, Vice Chairman of the Press and Public Relations Committee and a member of the Parliamentary Committee.

Since 2009,Matt has been recognised by Intellectual Asset Management magazine as one of the world’s leading intellectual property strategists. In 2010,Matt was invited to become a Visiting Fellow of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at Imperial College Business School.

Urs Dommann is Head of Europe, Evalueserve IP Solutions. He joined Evalueserve in 2005 after 10 years in IP Business as a Senior Licensing manager at Swiss Licensing Firm and a patent attorney at a Swiss IP Law Firm. Urs and his team are responsible for delivering Evalueserve’ IP solution to its corporate and law firm clients across Europe. Urs holds an MSc in Science from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Jacob Eisenberg is a senior intellectual property attorney and former patent examiner with over 20 years professional experience in all phases of intellectual property creation, enforcement and management. His experience includes direct patent and trademark prosecution before the USPTO, EPO and OHIM respectively; licensing and litigation management and DRM. Jacob is currently Managing Director of Sandvik Intellectual Property AB in Sweden. Recent professional experience includes: VP of IP Creation at TomTom International, Director of Intellectual Property EMEA at UBS and Senior Patent Counsel at Siemens. Jacob is American and Swiss and speaks English and German. He was educated in the United States and received a Bachelor’s of Science in Applied Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Juris Doctorate from the New England School of Law.

J. Scott received his undergraduate degree from Baylor University and his Juris Doctor cum laude in 1992 from the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at The University of Louisville. J. Scott first served as Corporate Counsel for Fruit of the Loom where he was responsible for managing the international intellectual property portfolios for Fruit of the Loom and its associate companies The B.V.D. Licensing Corporation, Gitano, Pro Player and Salem Sportswear, Inc. In November 1996, J. Scott joined Adams Evans P.A. where he continued to concentrate his practice in the areas of trademark, copyright, unfair competition and Internet law. In November 2007, J. Scott joined the legal team at Yahoo! Inc., where he serves as a Senior Legal Director – Global Brand and Trademarks.

J. Scott served on the five member drafting committee that assisted the staff at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN) with the drafting of the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and the Rules of Procedure for the UDRP. He also served as member of the Implementation Recommendation Team charged with proposing possible solutions for brand protection in new gTLDs. J. Scott is an active member of the International Trademark Association, where he serves as Secretary, is a member of the Board of Directors and he serves on the Executive Committee. J. Scott also currently serves on as a member of the U. S. Legislation Sub-Committee at INTA. Additionally, J. Scott is the immediate Past-President of the Intellectual Property Constituency (“IPC”) the body that participates on behalf of trademark and copyright owners in the ICANN policy process. J. Scott has twice been voted as one of the 50 Most Influential People in IP by Managing Intellectual Property magazine. J. Scott frequently lectures on trademark and Internet policy issues as well as domain name dispute resolution.

Michael Fammler advises German and international companies in all areas of intellectual property law with an emphasis on commercial intellectual property law. His main focus is on all aspects of trademark and trade name law. He has extensive expertise in the management of large, worldwide trademark portfolios, the drafting and negotiation of complex license agreements, including all related antitrust and competition law aspects. He has great experience in trademark litigation for well-known brand owners. The JUVE handbook of Law Firms lists him as one of the leading trademark lawyers.

David Franklin is General Manager of Brand Protection at NetNames, a Group NBT-owned company and the experts in the protection of enterprise brands, trademarks and online counterfeit surveillance and takedown.

A senior executive with 20 years experience, Mr. Franklin joined NetNames as General Manager of Brand Protection in 2008. His day to day responsibilities include the direction and leadership of the entire NetNames Brand Protection and Anti-Counterfeiting worldwide business, including development, sales, support, customer services and consultancy to NetNames’ global customer base.

With years of experience in managing and growing technology and security companies in Europe, Mr Franklin is applying his knowledge and skills to the emerging and important area of protecting enterprise brands online.

In his career, Mr Franklin has been responsible for the leadership and expansion of major technology businesses including cryptographic hardware specialist nCipher (now Thales) and telecoms provider Infonet (now BT).

Mr Franklin is a frequent and well-regarded speaker at conferences, a founder member of the UK ACG (Anti-Counterfeiting Group) and a committee member of the internet working group of the IACC (International Anti Counterfeiting Coalition). He is actively involved in cross-sector initiatives to enhance cooperation between brand owners and Internet platforms and is often called upon by organisations such as the BBC as a subject matter expert on Internet-related matters.

Mr. Franklin holds a degree in Engineering from Cambridge University. He still finds time to indulge his passion for jazz playing saxophone in big bands and small jazz groups.

Pinaki Ghosh has more than 16 years experience in technology and around 10 years experience in IP and innovation, both for the product industry and the service industry. Some of Pinaki’s industry experience is as follows: he has held a Scientist position of a missile program in DRDO; has held Senior Scientist position in GE Medical Systems & Defence Research (India); held a managerial position in IP in GE Medical, India (IP & Innovation) and started this group; and has held the position of Head of IP in Infosys.

With a Ph.D in Computer Science and a Post Graduate in Patents Law for the National Law School, Bangalore, Pinaki is pursuing a 2nd Ph.D in Law. He has 26patents and has published 20 papers in peer review international journals. Pinaki is Chair of the IP Section, National Bar Association of India, an invited member of ‘Intellectual Asset Management’ at Gothenburg University, Sweden, a visiting researcher & lecturer in the National Law School, Bangalore and IIM Bangalore.

Ms. GU is a qualified Chinese Patent Attorney. She specializes in patent drafting, patent prosecution, FTO analysis, patent validity analysis, patent infringement opinion, patent portfolio management, IP strategy making for different industries, IP due diligence, patent infringement litigation, patent validity & patent re-examination and related litigation, trade secret protection with a focus on pharmaceutical and chemistry & biochemistry sector. She has 5 years private practice in a Chinese patent firm and 7 years in-house experience in multinational companies including managing global IP portfolio and advising business and industry on how to manage, utilize and enforce IP in China. She has extensive experience in leading patent litigation & trade secret litigation in China.

Ms. GU’s current position is IP director in DSM to provide consultation forum for the business activities in China with respect to IP matters including managing patent portfolio, advising and counseling on IP issues in cooperation, acquisition, venturing and licensing activities in China. Her responsibility also covers the trade secret protection, IP value maximization in business, IP strategy making, and supporting IP litigations in China.

Offir Gutelzon is Vice President of Business Development for Getty Images and the founder of PicScout, a leader in identifying image use, metadata and licensing information on the web. Aquired by Getty Images in 2011, the PicScout brand will operate independantly while leveraging Getty Images' global distribution channels and platforms.

In his previous role as PicScout's CEO, Offir led the company's vision and execution of making sure Every Image Gets it's Credit utilzing the leading image recognition solution behind the ImageIRC(™) platform, and the leading solution ImageTracker . Prior to PicScout, Offir worked with several start-up companies and was involved in the vision and creation of various software and hardware solutions. One of the start-ups was Tundo Telecommunications where Offir held various product marketing and project management positions.

Offir served in a key technology unit of the Israel Defense Force and is a graduate of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program of IDC Herzliya. Founded in 2002, PicScout is a leading information company. PicScout was ranked number 34 among media companies on Inc. Magazine's 2010 Inc. 5000 and included in the top half of Israel's Deloitte Technology Fast 50 in 2009 and 2010. The PicScout suite of products include the company's leading image-recognition ImageExchange and ImageTracker services, which provides Instant Image ID solutions for creative professionals and ensures Every Image Gets Its Credit for content creators. PicScout works in partnership with the world's most prestigious image copyright holders. The company offers a line of image promotion and protection solutions that meet the needs of stock photography agencies, professional photographers, publishers and image buyers. All PicScout solutions are based on proprietary patent-pending technologies.

Hermann Haage is as a key account manager part of the central European Sales Devision of CPA Global. He has worked for 5 years as a Key Account Manager at QSC AG, then joined CPA Global in 2012. He works as part of the Central European Team in Munich and is responsible for key account management and business development.

Sheila Henderson is Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at Richemont, based in Geneva and London with responsibility for trademarks, designs, copyright, unfair competition, internet and domain name matters. She is a UK qualified solicitor and has previously worked at Reckitt Benckiser, Mars, Unilever and private practice.

Wulf Höflich has been EADS Chief Intellectual Property Officer since 2008, his focus is on the EADS Technology Licensing Initiative (www.technologylicensing.eads.net). From 2004 to 2010, Wulf was Vice President Intellectual Property at Airbus, located at their HQ in France. Previously Wulf has been Director Patents at Opel & General Motors, Europe; held a Professorship at University of Applied Science Ingolstadt (FH Ingolstadt) lecturing in Intellectual Property; Head of Patent Department at Knorr-Bremse AG, München and Patent Professional at the patent department of MTU Aero Engines München.

In his spare time Wulf enjoys Aviation (private pilot license) and skiing.

Julia Holden is a jointly qualified English solicitor and Italian Attorney. She has been practising with Trevisan & Cuonzo Avvocati since its establishment in 1993. She advises mainly Anglo and American companies and multi-national corporations on intellectual property issues, in particular in relation copyright and trade mark protection including litigation, anti-counterfeiting, unfair competition and customs monitoring. Julia works with clients from a broad range of industries including publishing and broadcasting, electronic games and software, automotive, energy, fashion and leather goods. She has worked, amongst others, for the following clients in recent years: Inverness Medical Innovations, Nintendo, Orient Express Hotel Group, Harley-Davidson, American Sporting Goods and Elizabeth Arden. As a partner in Trevisan & Cuonzo, Julia is responsible for co-ordination between Trevisan & Cuonzo and its associated IP registration practice, Intellectual Property & Business Consulting S.r.l. Before joining the firm, she worked at Slaughter & May in London and as in-house IP counsel for the Performing Rights Society, the UK Music Collecting Society. Julia is the Italian representative for the International Format Lawyers Association (IFLA), a network of leading television format lawyers.

Hirohito Katsunuma is a patent attorney having a long term experience in drafting, prosecution, litigation, etc. His specialties are mechanics, plant engineering and computer software. He is the president of Kyowa Patent and Law Office, which is one of the largest firms in Japan established in 1908.

He is also a guest professor of the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, consulting for its intellectual properties and teaching the students.

He also is a member of the Executive Committee running the Asian Patent Attorney’s Association, a non-governmental organization open to patent attorneys in the Asian region, having over 1830 members in 20 countries in Asia.

He speaks Chinese fluently. He gave lectures in China in 2011 explaining the Japanese Patent Law in Chinese language. He also gave a presentation as a speaker about the IP situation of the computer games in Japan in the AIPPI Exco meeting in Hyderabad in 2011.

Benjamin Koch is a member of the German Intellectual Property Practice of Baker & McKenzie since January 2009. His IP practice comprises both contentious and non-contentious work. His main areas of practice are General Intellectual Property Law, advice and litigation in trademark matters, Unfair Competition Law, Design Law. From 2005 until joining Baker & McKenzie, Benjamin Koch was working in BMW AG's Patent/Trademark Department. In his position as Legal Counsel he was responsible for applying for and in particular enforcing trademarks and design patents in Germany and other European markets.

Dr. Michael Kock is Head Intellectual Property with Syngenta International AG in Basel, Switzerland.

Dr. Kock studied chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology in Hamburg Germany and Nanjing, China and graduated with a Diploma in Chemistry and a Ph.D. in molecular biology. He worked as a laboratory and project leader in pharmaceutical industry research for several years before he focused on his carrier in IP. Prior to joining Syngenta he was Senior IP Counsel with BASF AG responsible for plant biotechnology and China IP matters. He is a qualified European Patent Attorney.

Malcolm is a practicing European Patent Attorney with 25+ years experience as senior attorney at shareholder level. Intense, determined and imaginative practise style with commercial flavour and a track record of good client outcomes. Malcolm’s professional practice is blended with a business leadership role as Chief Executive since 2006. Responsible for leading the successful transformation of Avidity IP (formerly HLBBshaw) from partnership model to corporate model.

Malcolm’s primary practice is in contentious pharma/nutrition and life sciences patent areas but also managing a broad international trade mark practice. In recent years, Malcolm's activities have increasingly included various aspects of managing IP estates, including process design, policy development, decision structures, risk management, IP governance and outsource management.

Malcolm is a good lateral thinker when faced with legal problems and client objectives. Recognised as an author of creative legal arguments, as well as having the determination, discipline and advocacy skills to carry them off.

Shona Merigeault is a British and European Patent Attorney and is Head of the Group Intellectual Property Department at Lafarge, the world’s number one company in construction materials.

Shona started her career in intellectual property in 1989 as a patent attorney with British Petroleum in London. In 1999 she moved to Lyon, France to join the patents department of Rhone Poulenc. With the creation of Aventis CropScience in 2000, which resulted from a merger between Rhone Poulenc and Hoerchst Agrevo, she was appointed manager of the Aventis CropScience Patents Department in France. She joined Lafarge, in late 2004, where she has built up the Group’s IP Department, which she heads.

In addition to general IP management, Shona has experience in managing IP litigations (trademarks and patents) in Great Britain, France, USA and China, in particular defining the appropriate strategies necessary to manage such litigations. She has also IP experience in acquisitions and divestments and managed the IP negotiations in the sale of Aventis CropScience to Bayer in 2003, working directly with the potential purchasers of the company and the anti trust authorities in Europe and in the USA. .

Myrtha Hurtado Rivas is a Senior Legal Expert with extensive experience in intellectual property, international business law and pharmaceutical area, in particular Trade Mark, Design, Copyright and Domain Names Law. She has extensive international practice working in a multicultural environment and is fluent in German, French, English, Italian and Spanish.

Myrtha has been in her present role as Global Head Trademarks, Domain Names & Copyright at Novartis Pharma AG since 2011. Prior to joining Novartis Pharma AG, Myrtha was Global Head of Trademarks & Domain Names at Sandoz from 2006 to 2011, and has previously worked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, Bern, from 2001 – 2006.

Toni is the co-founder and CEO of Ipendo AB. and the driving force behind the market success of the company in Europe and the US. Before founding Ipendo, Toni worked as a Patent Attorney and Key Account Manager at a large European firm. Toni also has a background as a consultant within the IT/Telecom industry (Ericsson Telecom among others) and the microelectronics field. Toni has a profound understanding for client IP needs and always strives to deliver services best tailored to clients' business situation. Toni holds a M.Sc. in Applied Physics & Electrical Engineering from the University of Linköping, Sweden.

Toni has conducted more than 900 meetings with various companies in a wide range of countries. All feedback from these meetings has been a base for the design and development of the solutions and services provided by IPENDO.

Rolls-Royce is a world-leading provider of power systems and services for use on land, at sea and in the air. Rolls-Royce engines keep up to 400,000 people in the air at any one time, power the aircraft of 160 armed forces and provide power to oil and gas and electricity customers in 120 countries. More than 30,000 commercial and naval vessels use Rolls-Royce marine equipment. Annual sales were £10.9 billion in 2010 and Rolls-Royce employs 38,900 people in more than 50 countries.

Richard North is Head of IP – Protection, Licensing & Control for Rolls-Royce plc, with corporate responsibility for policies relating to the protection of Rolls-Royce technology, for facilitating access to technology by the company’s global businesses and external partners, and for commercial exploitation of Rolls-Royce’s technology through licensing. Rolls-Royce’s internal team of patent and trademark professionals report to Richard. He is a senior manager in the company’s Engineering and Technology function based in Derby, UK.

Richard joined Rolls-Royce as an undergraduate 1983. He was a practising engineer for 15 years, including 9 years within Rolls-Royce’s Energy Business where he held a number of key roles including Chief Combustion Engineer and Head of Research & Technology, before moving to his current role in 2001.

He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Aston University and a MSc in Gas Turbine Engineering from Cranfield University.

Uwe has been active as in-house counsel with strong IP- background at Bayer AG, Novartis International AG and Henkel AG &Co KGaA for more than 19 years. Presently he is Corporate Vice President & Associate General Counsel and within the Henkel Law Group, leading a key account in-house counsel team for Henkel’s Laundry & Home Care Division as well as rendering legal service for different corporate functions, in particular as Head of Global Trademarks & Domain Names, responsible for Henkel’s international trademark and domain name portfolio for all Divisions.

Daniel Papst is one of the managing directors and owners of Papst Licensing GmbH & Co. KG, an international licensing and patent monetization firm. Mr Papst contributes to the experience and successful track record of Papst Licensing, which in 2010 completed its 150th license. In addition to managing actions against patent infringers, he analyzes products, technologies and markets overseeing a network of international attorneys and patent lawyers, technical consultants and market analysts, and negotiates licenses.

Papst Licensing was established in 1992 by its president, Georg Papst, Daniel’s father and today makes it possible for small and medium-sized businesses to participate in international licensing activities.

Mr Papst, a licensed patent attorney, graduated from the University of Karlsruhe/Germany in electrical engineering and information technology with a focus on electric drives and power electronics, earning a Dipl-Ing degree. After graduation he gained experience as an intern at the Chicago IP law firm, Welsh & Katz. Mr Papst also served at the IP law firm Reinhard Skuhra Weise in Munich/Germany, working for over three years primarily in the semiconductor, electronics, and automotive field. He joined Papst Licensing in 2005, and became one of the Managing Directors of Papst Licensing in 2009.

Member: AIPLA, VPP, LES, INTIPSA Fellow and IEEE. Areas of expertise: Licensing, IP Monetization, IP Management, IAM/IC

Derek Momberg is the current chairman of DM Kisch Inc, South Africa’s longest standing IP practice.

Over the past 15 years he has valued a wide variety of IP and its support systems, for multinationals and local companies – among them Cadbury, Beyer, KFC master franchise holders, financial institutions, health care administrators, cellphone and mining/mineral processing businesses. He pioneered the identification, distillation into tangible - deliverable - form and valuation of so called second tier IP, i.e. support IP which sustains the commercial life of primary (registrable) IP – in order to reduce the “goodwill” component in business acquisitions and the consequent accounting and tax difficulties.

Areas of expertise:

• Intellectual property valuation
• Tax-related aspects of intellectual property
• Software licensing
• IP and unlawful competition litigation

Co-author of an early work on IP management, Strategy in the Use of Intellectual Property (Gerundive Press, 1986.), he has from time to time published articles on various IP litigation and valuation issues.

Mikko Piironen is Patent Attorney at Papula-Nevinpat.

Mikko earned his Master of Science in Engineering from the Lappeenranta University of Technology in 2002.

Mikko first started his Intellectual Property career in 2001 when he was hired as a patent agent at Papula-Nevinpat. His patent experience includes identifying and handling inventions, drafting and prosecuting patent applications.

Special know-how/Technical fields

Software, telecommunications and mobile phones.

Memberships

FICPI, AIPPI, STY (the Finnish Association for Industrial Property Rights), SPAY (The Association of Finnish Patent Attorneys)

Alternate Delegate at FICPI 2010 – 2012

Member of the board of SPAY, secretary 2009-2012

Languages

Finnish, English, Spanish, German, Swedish

Mr. Richardson is recognized as a leader in IP Litigation by numerous experts’ guides and ranking services including Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, IAM’s World’s Leading Life Sciences Patent Litigators (2011), The World’s Leading IP Strategists (2010), Patent Litigation 250 (2010), L’Expert, and The Best Lawyers in Canada (2011). He has been nominated by his peers as one of Canada’s leading practitioners, featured in Who’s Who Legal: Canada (2011) and is featured in Euromoney’s Experts Guide to the World’s Leading Patent Law Practitioners.

Practice Focus: Lead counsel in high stakes IP litigation; trusted advisor and legal strategist to multi-national I.P. rights holders

Morten Rosted is from H. Lundbeck, a Danish pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Valby, Copenhagen. Lundbeck is an integrated company with core competencies in research, development, production, marketing and sales. Morten is Head of Department of DK Patents and is as such responsible for IP activities coming out of the Danish part of Lundbeck's R&D patent group.

Morten is European Patent Attorney and Certified Danish Patent Agent. Morten has a Master of Science in Human Biology and a Ph.D. in molecular biology.

Erich Spangenberg serves as the Chairman/Founder of IP Navigation Group. Erich is responsible for strategic direction and continues to be active in all aspects of patent monetization for IPNav’s large corporate and institutional clients. Mr. Spangenberg began his career, and ultimately was named partner, with Jones Day—an international law firm. He also worked as an investment banker (Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette—SVP) and in telecommunications (Smartalk Teleservices—CEO). Mr. Spangenberg holds a BA from Skidmore College (economics), a MSc from The London School of Economics and a JD from Case Western Reserve University.

Say became a Principal Partner in July 2005 and co-leads the intellectual property practice group. Say’s clients include many well-known fashion, sporting goods, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, electronics, media, and industry leaders. Say’s main areas of practice are enforcement of intellectual property rights, including anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy work and IP related litigation. She also advises on trademark and patent prosecution matters, trademark and patent licensing, and trade secrets. In one landmark case, Say headed the team that successfully obtained the very first Anton Piller Order ever issued by the Central Intellectual Property & International Trade Court, on behalf of three well-known apparel companies.

Akash Sachdeva is a Partner in the IP department of Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP. He is a qualified barrister having trained in the specialist IP chambers of Christopher Floyd QC (now Mr Justice Floyd). He has over 13 years of experience in all aspects of intellectual property litigation with a particular emphasis on hi-tech disputes. His recent experience includes acting for Research In Motion on patent litigation matters in the English High Court, acting for BSkyB in a case involving the importation of foreign decoder cards, acting for eBay on the eBay v L'Oreal trade mark litigation, acting in an AAA arbitration involving the misuse of confidential information and for a major Chinese telecoms company in proceedings in Hong Kong and China.

Matthias Schneider received his Master of Science and phD degrees from the University of Stuttgart in Germany. He worked many years in research at M.I.T, Georgia Tech, and at Siemens Corporate Research. Later he was the head of the UI Design Center of Siemens Communication Devices as well as leading the IPR Management at Siemens Mobile Phones and BenQ Mobile. In his current position as Director for Patent Licensing at Nokia Corporation he coordinates the defensive licensing activities of Nokia.

Matthias is still active in UI design research and teaches regularly at the Technical University of Munich.

Michael V. Sneddon is the president and CEO of MultiLing Corporation, a multinational language services and technology company, which he co-founded in 1988. Sneddon, an attorney and member of the American Intellectual Property and Law Association (AIPLA), was a catalyst in reorganizing the company from a paper-based translation bureau into one of the most respected and efficient translation companies in the world, with translation teams in over 40 countries. Under his direction, MultiLing has developed a proprietary language technology platform, Fortis, which supports translators and leverages past translations—improving translation quality while saving our clients money.

Claudia Tapia is Director, IP Policy in the department Standards & Licensing at Research In Motion. While at RIM, she has focused on various aspects of intellectual property, including intellectual property rights (IPR) policies in standards, global patent policies, as well as licensing and litigation. Claudia holds a law degree at the University of Valencia, Spain and a LLM degree at the University of Law Ludwig Maximilian (LMU) in Munich, Germany and a PhD degree (summa cum laude) at the University of law in Augsburg, with a scholarship of Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich. The main focus of the thesis resided on Industrial Property Rights, Technical Standards and Licensing Practices (FRAND) in the Telecommunications Industry. She is vicechair at the IPR WG in DigitalEurope and a member in several organizations as ETSI, EU Chamber in China, DIN and Bitkom.

Pierre is French/German citizen. He studied law at the Universities of Strasbourg (D.E.S.S., Ceipi), Heidelberg and Munich. Pierre worked as a research assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute for intellectual property (Munich) where he obtained his PhD on cross-border patent litigation. After working in private practice, Pierre joined the European Patent Office in 2001 (Directorate Patent Law). He works in Directorate International Legal Affairs since 2009.

Gerben Weistra is based in the Netherlands and part of the global Charles River Associates (CRA) transfer pricing practice.

Mr. Weistra has advised on a wide range of complex tax and economic issues related to transfer pricing for multinationals in several industries, including chemicals, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, financial services, healthcare, and high technology.

His experience includes the practical implications and commercial impact of developing and implementing transfer pricing strategies, and developing new transfer pricing systems in the context of international (tax) restructurings. He provides economic analyses and advice for planning, audit defense, advance pricing agreements (APAs), cost-sharing arrangements, and intellectual property valuation.

Mrs. Anna-Lena Wolfe is a Swedish IP Attorney and European Trade mark Attorney. Anna-Lena graduated in 1994 from the Stockholm University, Sweden, with a master degree in Law. She also holds a degree in Marketing Management from the School of Economics and Business of Lund.

In 2009, Anna-Lena became the Director Trademark of Tetra Pak, responsible for the global trademark, domain name and design portfolio. She is based in Lund, Sweden.

Anna-Lena has more than 17 years of experience in the field of intellectual property law. Before joining Tetra Pak she worked as an IP consultant within a Swedish IP law firm for 8 years where she handled trademark, designs and patent matters for clients in various businesses. A significant part of her practice was devoted to strategic counselling on trademark and design prosecution, opinion preparation on issues relating to infringements and litigations. Anna-Lena has also worked as general counsel with Ericsson for 8 years, mainly with IP and contractual related matters.

She is a frequent speaker on topics relating to trademark and domain name strategies and enforcements and she has spoken before numerous of companies and organisations world wide.

Linus Wretblad is the CEO and co-founder of Uppdragshuset. He has a Master of Science degree in Physics and Electrical Engineering, Linkoping University and also holds a French post-master DEA degree in microelectronics and computer systems. He has passed MBA studies on Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Stockholm University. Linus has fiftteen years of experience of innovation advising with focus on IPR towards the industry, Patent Attorneys and University Tech Transfer programs.

Linus is elected to the steering committee for the Swedish IP Information Group (SIPIG) and is a representative of the Confederacy of European Patent Information User Groups (CEPIUG). Linus is actively debating IPR matters both in the daily press and in national political reference groups on Innovation Management. He is a speaker at numerous IPR occasions such as East Meet West (2009) and IRF symposium (2010).

David Yurkerwich assists clients throughout the world with the valuation, licensing, and sale of technology and intellectual property (“IP”) rights. He operates from the New York and Frankfurt offices of Charles River Associates (CRA).

Clients seek his assistance to: identify IP assets for monetization; identify and benchmark competitor IP; locate and facilitate IP acquisitions; implement licensing programs; identify buyers and complete IP sales; reduce IP filing and maintenance costs; quantify economic damages in disputes.

Mr. Yurkerwich has completed numerous licensing and sale transactions and provided extensive expert valuation testimony in patent infringement cases, international arbitration and other business disputes.