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IIR Law and Compliance
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Mon 13 Oct 2008
Crowne Plaza St James, London, United Kingdom
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Examining the current and future legal landscape of hi-tech companies
Your distinguished speaker panel:
Amy Marasco, General Manager, Standards Strategy, Microsoft
Tom Sanchez, Chief Patent Counsel, Research in Motion
Per Hellström, Head of Unit of the Information Industries, IT and Consumer Electronics Anti-trust Unit in DG Competition, European Commission
Dr. Petri Kuoppamäki, Vice President, Corporate Legal, Nokia
Dr Michael Fröhlich, Legal Affairs Director, Attorney-at-law, European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI)
Roy Hoffinger, VP and Legal Counsel, Qualcomm
Kevin Scott, Principal IP Counsel, Philips
Carter Eltzroth, Legal Director, DVB
Rob Glidden, Global Alliance Manager, TV & Media, Sun Microsystems
Roberto Dini, Founder & Senior Advisor, Sisvel
Yann Dietrich, General Counsel, LiMo Foundation
Earl Nied, Program Director of Standards and Industry Groups, Intel
Kent Baker, Vice President, Director IPR Policy & Compliance, Qualcomm
John Graubert, Partner, Covington & Burling LLP (former Deputy General Counsel, FTC)
Karin Norton, Special Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP (former Senior Attorney, US International Trade Commission)
David Hull, Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
Nicola Dagg, Partner, Allen & Overy
Sinan Utku, Special Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP
David Barron, Partner, Wragge & Co LLP
Standards-making is especially important in the hi-tech sectors for achieving interoperability of new products and wide-scale and efficient adoption of new technologies. The more widely adopted a standard is, and the more it is "shared" among companies producing hi-tech goods and consumers using those goods, the more likely that standard will be successful. This aspect of standards is in tension with the proprietary and exclusive nature of intellectual property rights, and especially patents.
This tension is increasingly being manifested in significant legal developments -increased scrutiny by competition authorities of the intellectual property policies of standards-making bodies, new and convoluted legal disputes arising from standards patents, and continually developing case law on the obligations of participants in standards-making bodies. Recent developments of special note include the European Commission's cases against each of Rambus and Qualcomm, the recent DC Circuit Court of Appeal decision in the Rambus case, new theories of standards-related enforcement utilized by the FTC and increased standards-related patent litigation before the US ITC. Ongoing patent reform in Europe and the United States will likely also have an impact on the interface between standards and patents. Other developments, such as patent provisions in GPL version 3 are also of note.How will all these exciting developments play out? What will the legal landscape for hi-tech companies look like over the next few years? Will competition authorities scrutinise even more closely what companies do with their patents? Join us at the annual IBC Legal Conference on Standards and Patents for stimulating discussion of these important issues by leading policy makers, executives and practitioners in this area.In just one day you will:
- Review developments in 2007 and discuss expectations going forward
- Examine recent developments in and explore competition aspects issues going forward
- Analyse standards-making bodies, patent policies and patent pools; new developments and directions
- Evaluate the increasingly important forum for standards-related patent litigation -
the US International Trade Commission
- Discover the differing approaches to IPR in standards-making bodies
- Assess enforcement case studies and patent reform in the EU, UK and US
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Who Will Attend?
IP Counsel-Patent Attorneys-Intellectual Property Managers-Heads of Patents-Patent Counsel-Private Practice Lawyers specialising in IP,IT, Media, Technology and Competition Law-Corporate Counsel-In-house Counsel-Legal Counsel-Vice Presidents-Heads of IP-Patent Engineers-General Counsel-Rights Managers-Lecturers-Patent Examiners
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