Meet the Speakers
Margot Fröhlinger
DG Knowledge Based Economy
EU Commission
Margot Fröhlinger is the Director General of the Internal Market Knowledge based economy for the European Commission. Margot Fröhlinger graduated from Saarbrücken University with a law degree in 1976. Her post-graduate qualifications consist of the German professional law qualification (1979) and a Doctorate in law from the Trier University (1981). Following the adoption of the Services Directive she has been appointed Director of the Directorate dealing with knowledge based economy where she is in charge of the Commission's policy on professional qualifications, on counterfeiting, on copyright and related rights and on industrial property including trademarks and patents. She is in particular dealing with the creation of a Unified European Patent Litigation System and the Community Patent. She is a member of the Kuratorium of the Max Planck Institute in Germany and is lecturing on Intellectual Property Rights at the Universities of Aix-of-Provence and Paris (Université Paris1-Panthéon-Sorbonne).
Kevin Cranman
General Counsel
Ericsson Television
Kevin Cranman is General Counsel for Ericsson Television. (the Americas), which is part of the Ericsson Group. He handles commercial transactions regarding telecommunications and broadcasting technologies, IP development and protection, litigation and dispute management, HR issues, and whatever else darkens the door step. Previously, he served as in-house counsel and handled IP issues at Panasonic Mobile Communications, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and other technology ventures - and in a business role at BellSouth Intellectual Property.
Michael Bishop
General Counsel
AT&T Intellectual Property Corporation
Michael Bishop is the General Counsel of AT&T Intellectual Property Corporation, in Atlanta, Georgia. He formerly served as Chief IP Counsel for BellSouth Corporation. Prior to joining BellSouth, Mr. Bishop practiced law at King & Spalding, in Atlanta. Mr. Bishop received his juris doctor in 1990 from The George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C., and is a 1985 graduate of the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, with a B.A., History, magna cum laude. Mr. Bishop attended graduate school in history at the University of York, York, UK, 1986 - 87. He is a native of Jacksonville, Florida.
Dr. Koenraad Wuyts
Chief Intellectual Property Officer
KPN Group
Dr. Koenraad Wuyts is the Chief Intellectual Property Officer of the KPN Group of companies. The group develops ICT operations worldwide. He graduated in Physics in 1992 and became Bachelor in Philosophy in the same year, both at the University of Leuven. He entered the intellectual property arena in 1994 and qualified as European Patent Attorney in 1999. Before working with KPN, Koenraad Wuyts was the head of patents and licensing at the research center IMEC (Belgium). Over the last ten years of his career Koenraad Wuyts developed extensive experience in patent portfolio management and the broad range of IPR law, currently lecturing frequently at international conferences.
Toni Nijm
CEO
Ipendo
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.
Antony Taubman
Head of Intellectual Property
WTO
Antony Taubman is the Head of Intellectual Property at WTO. Previously he was the Acting Director and Head of the Global Intellectual Property Issues Division (including the Traditional Knowledge Division and Life Sciences Program) of WIPO, a position he assumed in May 2002, with responsibility for programs on intellectual property and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore, the life sciences, and related global issues. After a diplomatic career, he left the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in 2001 to join the newly-formed Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture, at the Australian National University, teaching and researching on international IP law. From 1998 to 2001, he was Director of the International Intellectual Property Section of DFAT, and in that capacity was engaged in multilateral and bilateral negotiations on intellectual property issues, domestic policy development, regional cooperation, and TRIPS dispute settlement. He has taken part in many training and capacity building programs on intellectual property law and TRIPS in Australia and a number of Asian countries. He has authored a training handbook on intellectual property and biotechnology, a comprehensive study on the implementation of the TRIPS Agreement, and a range of academic and general publications on international intellectual property law and policy. He has held a teaching appointment at the School of Law at the University of Melbourne, delivering a specialist postgraduate course on TRIPS Law and Practice.
Jean-Pierre Meader
Group Head of Brand IP
Nestlé
Jean-Pierre Meader is Group Head of Brand IP at Nestlé, based in Vevey, where he has worldwide responsibilities for trademarks, designs, copyright and domain names. He joined Nestlé in November 2000.Prior to that Jean-Pierre spent 8 years as Director Intellectual Property for Kraft Foods Company in Zürich, where he had responsibility for all of Kraft's trademarks and non-technical intellectual property rights in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia/Oceania.Before joining Kraft Foods Jean-Pierre was an in-house lawyer for a Swiss based Telecommunication and a High-Tech company where he was handling licensing projects and other commercial legal issues.Jean-Pierre holds a Law Degree from the University of Berne, Switzerland and is a qualified attorney admitted to the bar. In 1991 Program for Executive Development, IMD Switzerland. He joined MARQUES Council in February 2005. Jean-Pierre is also a Council member of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
Vincent O'Reilly
Director of IP Policy
OHIM
Vincent O'Reilly is the Director of IP Policy at OHIM and has been working in OHIM since April 1995. Previously he worked in various Government Departments in Dublin, of which he is a native. In the mid-1980s he was in charge of trade marks and designs in the Irish Patent Office. Immediately before taking up his post in Alicante he was head of the Intellectual Property Policy Unit in the Department of Enterprise and Employment. He was Head of the Examination Division in OHIM up to February 2002. He is currently Director of the Department for Industrial Property Policy.He is a graduate of University College Dublin. He has lectured widely on the CTM system and has contributed to several publications on the subject. Many of his articles have been translated into either Spanish, Chinese or Korean.He is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Academy of the European Patent Organisation.
Eugen Stohr
Director of International Legal Affairs
European Patent Office
Eugen Stohr is the Director of International Affairs for the European Patent Office. He began his career at the German Patent and Trademark Office, working in the field of foreign and international industrial property law. Mr Stohr joined the European Patent Office in 1990 as a lawyer in the International Legal Affairs department, dealing with various aspects of European, international and national patent law. In this role at the EPO, he is dealing in particular with the strategic and legal questions of the further development of the European Patent System (Revision of the EPC, Community Patent, European Patent Litigation system, etc.) and global harmonisation of patent law. To this end Mr Stohr further promotes relations with the EPC Contracting States, third countries and organisations such as WIPO, EU and WTO. In his function as secretary of SACEPO (Standing Advisory Committee to the EPO) and the US Bar/EPO Liaison Council, he contributes to the continuous monitoring of the European patent system, striving to provide the best possible service for its users.
Philippe Cassagne
Vice President of IP and Licensing
Gemalto
Philippe Cassagne is the Vice President of IP and Licensing for Gemalto. He has a dual educational background. He has an engineering degree and a diploma from Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Toulouse.Philippe got a diploma from CEIPI in 1994 and is European Patent Attorney. He also successfully passed the French Patent Attorney examination. Philippe trained and qualified in Cabinet Martinet & Lapoux and Alcatal as patent engineer. In Alcatal he then occupied several positions from Lead Counsel in charge of all IP matters for two product lines (access products and consumer products) to Site Manager in Madrid where he lived two years. He joined Gemplus in 2000 as Licensing Manager where he was in charge of creation and valuation of licensing programs. He launched successfully a licensing program and worked in all contractual aspects relative to IP contracts.
Leo Longauer
Executive Director and Head of Group Intellectual Property
UBS
Leo Longauer is the Executive Director and Head of Group Intellectual Property at UBS. Mr Longauer joined UBS in 2002 as head of the name rights group and was principally responsible for managing and advising on the legal aspects surrounding the implementation of UBS's single brand strategy. Since becoming the head of group intellectual property in 2006, his responsibilities have extended to all other IP aspects of the bank, including patents and copyrights. In this role, he leads an international team that has group-wide responsibility for the identification, protection, enforcement and management of all intellectual property assets at UBS. Prior to joining UBS, Mr Longauer spent six years at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, where he headed a trademark examination section. Mr Longauer holds a master of law degree from the University of Berne, Switzerland.
Stephane Tronchon
Legal Director - IPR Policy - EU
Qualcomm Incorporated
Stephane Tronchon is the Director of IPR Policy at Qualcomm Incorporated, an internationally recognised leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services. QUALCOMM is a company which is active in standardization in over 50 bodies across the globe. Mr. Tronchon current responsibilities include management of standards policy development and strategy issues for standards activities including international and regional IPR activities, and other regulatory initiatives related to Qualcomm standards activities. His particular expertise is handling issues related to intellectual property, standards development and related regulatory issues. Mr. Tronchon represents QUALCOMM and addresses relevant IPR issues in different venues throughout the world including the IPR Working Groups of ETSI, Digital Europe (formerly known as EICTA) , the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and also various groups in the USA. He also acts as a liaison to ANSI and TIA IPR groups in the United States. During his tenure at ETSI, Mr. Tronchon acquired extensive experience with Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), in particular with regard to telecom standardization. He was seen as being instrumental in guiding ETSI members on the management of their IPRs in a standards making process and in delivering advice on IPR matters to ETSI General Assembly and Board. His responsibilities included the drafting and completion for the ETSI Guide on IPRs which is modelled throughout the ICT industry.
John Olsen
Partner
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge UK LLP
"Advice to clients is not and should not be simply the practice of a trade, but rather enabling one to bring to bear one's entire experience and knowledge for the benefit of a client"
With more than 30 years experience in Intellectual Property Law and in particular trade mark law, 25 of those years practicing in Europe, John advises clients on selection, acquisition, exploitation and enforcement of trade mark rights throughout the world. His hands-on approach is unique in helping clients to understand the inter-relationship of IP rights worldwide and to ensure that their trade mark enjoys as much exclusivity as possible. John advises individuals through to multi-national companies. John manages brand protection programmes for large global brands including Tumi, Inc.; Elizabeth Arden; and others.
"In the knowledge economy, if you grant that intangible rights are at the core of that economy, then one must deal with those rights from inception to creation, through to management and exploitation - a complete service. Otherwise clients will receive disjointed advice resulting in inconsistency. To realize rights you have to be consistent"
Trade marks consist of names, designs (including two and three dimensional designs such as a logo or a physical item) and even smells. Common Law rights arising from use of a mark or trade designation are complex and vast. We provide clients with information and advice on territories which recognize user rights as well as enforcement of those rights.
"Success comes in cans, not in cannots"
Being creative and developing strategies to assist clients in proceeding through the plethora of international laws and regulations in securing their trade mark rights is essential in my practice. That can mean creative thinking in guiding an application through the registration process or negotiating terms of co-existence. Whatever the case, the trade mark practitioner must work closely with a client and understand their business in order to find the best way forward when making difficult decisions.
Gabriele Mohsler
Director of Patent Unit
Ericsson
Gabriele Mohsler is the European and German Patent Attorney for Ericsson. After having studied electronic engineering at the university in Aachen, she started her career as a patent attorney with Alcatel. In 1997 she joined Ericsson and is there responsible for a patent portfolio, including building up, defending and licensing it. She is also active in lobbying activities for Ericsson.
Ignacio de Castro
Deputy Director, Arbitration & Mediation Center
WIPO
Ignacio De Castro, Deputy Director, WIPO, Arbitration and Mediation Centre Ignacio de Castro is the Deputy Director of WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre. He is a Spanish lawyer and an English solicitor. Ignacio holds a masters degree from King's College London. Before joining WIPO in 2002, he was a legal officer at the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva and, prior to that, practiced with the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London in the areas of international arbitration and litigation. Ignacio is a national of Spain.
David J. Koris
General Counsel & Head Intellectual Property Services
Shell International B.V.
Mr. Koris has been an IP counsel for the last 27 years with broad experience in all phases of IP practice. Currently serving as the General Counsel, Head of IPS for Shell International B.V. in The Hague, Mr. Koris is responsible for all aspects of technology protection and IP asset management. In addition to managing the IP organization, Mr. Koris is a partner in the technology planning team with responsibilities for leading Shell's businesses in the creation, development and management of IP strategies that optimize the value of IP assets for the varied technologies and business objectives of the organization.
Mr. Koris began his career in a law firm in Washington DC, where he developed experience in IP practice and ITC litigation. In the following years Mr. Koris has held several executive positions leading the IP efforts of a number of multinational companies including GE's Advanced Materials Business, Tyco Worldwide Services, Kendall Company and GTE - Precision Materials Business. Mr. Koris is Chairman of the Intellectual Property Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and is a Board Member of the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO). Mr. Koris has been a speaker at a number of conferences on IP asset management, the role of IP in M&A practice as well as on various trademark and copyright issues.
Mr. Koris was born in the United States of America and spent his early years living in The Netherlands, Italy and England before pursuing a Bachelors Degree in Chemistry from The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and his JD from Franklin Pierce Law Center of Concord, New Hampshire.
Claudia Tapia
IPR Counsel
Research in Motion
Claudia Tapia is IPR Counsel in the department Licensing and Standards at Research In Motion, a leader in the worldwide mobile communications market and the company behind the award-winning BlackBerry® solution. 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. Recently, after two years scholarship at Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich, Claudia has successfully defended her PhD with a summa cum laude. The main focus of the thesis resided on Industrial Property Rights, Technical Standards and Licensing Practices (FRAND) in the Telecommunications Industry. She is a member of ETSI, IPO, EU Chamber in China, DIN and DigitalEurope.
Maurus Schreyvogel
Group Legal Project Manager
Novartis International AG
Maurus Schreyvogel is the Group Legal Project Manager for Novartis International AG based in Basel. In his current role he is leading the global eBilling initiative which includes implementation of an electronic billing software, on boarding legal vendors and set up operations. Electronic billing was establish at Novartis in all divisions and two of three headquarter countries. Maurus started his career in 1994 at F.Hoffman-La Roche AG as an IT Supporter and has worked in many senior roles across T-Systems, Handelsshule KV Basel and Froriep Renggli attorneys at Law.
Sanjay Prasad
Head of Acquisitions & Strategy - Software & Communications Business Unit Licensing
Intellecutal Ventures
Sanjay is responsible for leading Intellectual Ventures' acquisitions in the software and communications technologies and driving related portfolio and business strategies. Previously he was responsible for building and managing Intellectual Ventures' enterprise software licensing business. Before joining Intellectual Ventures, Sanjay was a member of the executive team at IPVALUE Management Inc. where he built and ran IPValue's operations in Bangalore, leading the firm's growth in India, along with serving in various business and legal capacities in a variety of licensing programs in the semiconductor, e-commerce and consumer electronics industries. Before IPVALUE, Sanjay served as chief patent counsel at Oracle Corporation in Redwood Shores, CA with responsibility for Oracle's patent program and related enforcement, defense and licensing issues along with standard setting organizations and their related agreements and other issues related to technology and intellectual property. Prior to Oracle, Sanjay was in private practice at Fenwick and West in Palo Alto and at Banner & Witcoff in Boston where his practice included patent litigation, prosecution and the advising of technology companies on a range of IP issues.
Sanjay is experienced in a range of legal and policy issues pertaining to IP and in particular issues pertaining to the software and information technology industries. He has testified before a U.S. Congressional Subcommittee on U.S. legislation pertaining to IP litigation and is a frequent speaker on topics pertaining to IP law. He has served on the Board of Trustees for the Software Patent Institute, the Executive Committee of the Association of Corporate Patent Counsel, the Board of the Intellectual Property Owners Association and as Chair of the IP Counsel's Roundtable of the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA). He is admitted to practice in California, Massachusetts, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and various federal courts.
Sanjay earned his law degree from Syracuse University College of Law where he was an editor of the Syracuse Law Review. He also earned a Masters in Computer Engineering and a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, both from Boston University. Prior to entering law school Sanjay worked in the minicomputer industry as a CPU/VLSI chip designer at Prime Computer in Framingham, Massachusetts.
Doug Miller
Chief Marketing Officer
Innography
Doug Miller brings a wealth of experience and understanding of software markets to Innography, having held executive positions at 10 technology startups over the past 25 years, including BuildForge (IBM), Authoria, Hire.com, Dazel (HP), Powersoft (Sybase), Candle and Computer Corporate of America. Responsible for strategic marketing and channel development, Doug is focused on driving new markets and product enhancements to position Innography as a global leader in intellectual property business intelligence. Doug's other interests are jump blues, photography and golfing.
Ted Shapiro
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Deputy Managing Director
Motion Picture Association (Brussels)
Ted Shapiro, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Deputy Managing Director, Motion Picture Association (Brussels), is responsible for the MPA's European legal department overseeing the provision of legal services -- advice, litigation, and compliance -- to the MPA/Member Companies on Intellectual Property,Audiovisual regulation, competition law, international private law, data protection rules, tax, trade law, monitoring of and providing input on legislative and regulatory activity. Ted has an international scope including work with WIPO, WTO, UNESCO, EU institutions drafting memoranda and position papers, interfacing with governmental officials, negotiation of joint positions with other associations and sectors, in particular on the EC Copyright, E-Commerce, Enforcement, Telecoms/Privacy Directives, in Brussels, and the Member States during national implementation.Ted is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts and in England/Wales. He has a LL.M. from the University of Amsterdam, a J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law (Pennsylvania) and B.A. from Connecticut College.
Andrew Watson
Managing Director
IPVA
Andrew co-founded ipVA is its CEO, and a lead project consultant. In 2009, Intellectual Asset Magazine named Andrew as an internationally recognised IP strategist in the IAM250.
Before ipVA Andrew spent 15 years as an M&A lawyer and Managing Partner of the Thames Valley office at Andersen Legal, mostly spent ignoring the importance of IP as just another specialist legal area. Andrew then joined Thirdspace in 2001, a co-venture by Alcatel and Oracle into the then nascent IPTV market. Oracle had donated a portfolio of video streaming patents to the business and Andrew was given the task to go and make money with them. Two years of intensive IP education later, Thirdspace was successfully sold to Alcatel, the quality of its IP being one of the core reasons for its exit valuation.
Andrew frequently presents on building value through Intellectual Property, including as part of training sessions for the British Venture Capital Association and the European Venture Capital Association, the European Patent Office, and at the 2008 and forthcoming 2010 IP Business Congresses.
Eugen Stohr
Director International Legal Affairs
EPO
Eugen Stohr is the Director of International Affairs for the European Patent Office
He began his career at the German Patent and Trademark Office, working in the field of foreign and international industrial property law. Mr Stohr joined the European Patent Office in 1990 as a lawyer in the International Legal Affairs department, dealing with various aspects of European, international and national patent law. In this role at the EPO, he is dealing in particular with the strategic and legal questions of the further development of the European Patent System (Revision of the EPC, Community Patent, European Patent Litigation system, etc.) and global harmonisation of patent law. To this end Mr Stohr further promotes relations with the EPC Contracting States, third countries and organisations such as WIPO, EU and WTO. In his function as secretary of SACEPO (Standing Advisory Committee to the EPO) and the US Bar/EPO Liaison Council, he contributes to the continuous monitoring of the European patent system, striving to provide the best possible service for its users.
Kevin Mooney
Partner
Simmons & Simmons
Kevin specialises in contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters, focusing specifically on patent litigation, especially in the pharmaceutical industry.
Kevin is recommended by "Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession" as being cited by peers as "the doyen of patent law". He is specifically recommend by Legal 500 for his "pre-eminent reputation for patent expertise". He is also specifically rated as a leader in his field by "The Legal 500", for Patent Litigation and in advising the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology sector, and the "Global Counsel 3000".
He is a member of the Intellectual Property Solicitors Association, a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and a former member of the Nuffield Bioethics Council Working Party on Human Tissue. He is past-President and a Member of the Advisory Board of the European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW) and has chaired three Venice conferences of European Patent Judges.
He is the author of many articles and a frequent speaker in the UK, Europe and the US on intellectual property issues. He was a founder of Bristol University Diploma in IP Law.
Kevin is one of two UK members of the lawyer/judge expert group advising the European Commission on its proposal for a single European patent jurisdiction. He is also a member of the European Advisory Group of the UK Intellectual Property Office on the same project.
Kevin has been appointed by the Secretary of State for Health in the UK to chair the Independent Panels on Borderline Products and on the Advertising of Pharmaceuticals.
Kevin qualified as a solicitor in 1971 and became a partner in 1973.
Robert Manley
Principal
McKool Smith
Robert M. Manley is a Principal in the Dallas office of McKool Smith who represents international companies in complex business and intellectual property litigation in courts throughout the United States. Mr. Manley is one of Law Dragon’s 2500, and his peers have repeatedly named him a Texas Super Lawyer since 2003 and a Best Lawyer in Dallas since 2002. He serves on the faculty for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s Regional Programs and is an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. Mr. Manley is a Barrister in the Patrick E. Higginbotham Inn of Court and a Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America. Mr. Manley received his B.A. from the University of Tulsa, attended the Institute for European Studies in Vienna, Austria, and attended the Pushkin Institute in Moscow, Russia before earning his law degree from the Southern Methodist University School of Law. Mr. Manley has tried many cases to judgment including both civil and criminal trials, and represents both plaintiffs and defendants as well as companies and individual litigants.
