16th Open Forum, St Petersburg 2016
St Petersburg, Russian Federation - 5 - 8 October 2016
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Working Programme — Day One
| Session Number | Session Name | Presenter Name | Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plenary | |||
| 1. | Business Development: A New Formula for Success – Developing a New Relationship with the Client | Bastiaan Koster (Moderator) | |
| Rich Goldstein | Download | ||
| Kathryn Szymczyk | Download | ||
| Patents | |||
| 2.1 | Quality Patents: Drafting “good claims” | Jan Modin (Moderator) | Download |
| Keith Beresford | Download | ||
| Alain Leclerc | Download | ||
| Ena Pugatsch | Download | ||
| 3.1 | Enforcement: When and where to act? | Denis Monégier du Sorbier | |
| Roland Kehrwald | Download | ||
| Ian Kirby | Download | ||
| Natalia Stepanova | Download | ||
| Trade Marks | |||
| 2.2 | Search orders and effective cooperation with state authorities | Daniel Alge (Moderator) | |
| Steve Brown | Download | ||
| Naresh Kilaru | Download | ||
| Patricia McGovern | Download | ||
| Gaurav Mukerjee | Download | ||
| Denis Voevodin | Download | ||
| 3.2 | Apple v. Samsung Global Design and Trade Dress Litigation | Robert Storey (Moderator) | Download |
| Nik Ramchand | Download | ||
| Thomas Schlief | Download | ||
| Dan Warren (replacing Rob Katz) | Download | ||
| Rachel Zhang | Download | ||
| 4.2 | Trade mark practice beyond the Roman alphabet | Johan Løje (Moderator) | Download |
| Elena Miller | Download | ||
| Mikhail Mozhaisky | |||
| Lena Shen | |||
| Leigh Walters | |||
| IP Practice Management | |||
| 2.3 | Quality Control - Using Quality Assurance Methods to Bring your Firm to the Next Level | Ivan Ahlert (Modererator) | |
| Guillaume de la Bigne | Download | ||
| Anne Lévy | |||
| Vikrant Rana | Download | ||
| Gloria Wu | Download | ||
| 3.3 | Economic Parameters of an IP Firm - Applying the Principle “What Gets Measured Gets Managed” in IP Practice | Marek Lazewski | Download |
| Richard Carden | |||
| Magnus Hallin | |||
| 4.3 | Retirement and Mentoring - Keeping knowledge within the firm | Eugene Arievich (Moderator) | Download |
| Peter Huntsman | |||
| Brett Slaney | |||
| André Werner | |||
| Workshops | |||
| 4.1.1 | Workshop: Interplay between patents and regulation: Telecommunications - FRAND | Alexander Wyrwoll (Moderator) | Download |
| Gregory Gramenopoulos | Download | ||
| Kay Konishi | Download | ||
| John Sideris | Download | ||
| 4.1.2 | Workshop: Interplay between patents and regulation: Pharma | Michael Caine (Moderator) | Download |
| Francis Ahner | Download | ||
| Larry Welch | Download |
Working Programme — Day Two
| Session Number | Session Name | Presenter Name | Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plenary | |||
| 5. | Keynote Speech: The EPO and EAPO | Julian Crump (Moderator) | |
| Raimund Lutz | Download | ||
| Leonid Voronetsky | Download | ||
| Patents | |||
| 6.1 | Keep it secret, keep it safe: How to identify and protect a trade secret | Francesco Paolo Vatti (Moderator) | Download |
| Jean Lapousterle | Download | ||
| Fabrice Mattei | Download | ||
| Jeff Pade | Download | ||
| 7.1 | What is an invention? How to capture them? | Kim Finnilä (Moderator) | Download |
| Andrew Meikle | Download | ||
| Eric Le Forestier | Download | ||
| Shoichi Okuyama | Download | ||
| 8.1 | The Unitary Patent and UPC is coming…soon? | Julian Crump (Moderator) | Download |
| Marie Courboulay | |||
| Margot Frohlinger | |||
| Klaus Grabinski | |||
| Richard Hacon | |||
| Trade Marks | |||
| 6.2 | Trade mark coexistence and its effects on rights | Elia Sugrañes (Moderator) | |
| Ian Gill | Download | ||
| Marina Grineva | Download | ||
| John Pickerill | Download | ||
| 7.2 | Unauthorised use of trade marks on the Internet: How can trade mark law help? | Micheline Kelly Johnson (Moderator) | |
| Sally Able | Download | ||
| Sara Ashby | Download | ||
| Livia Pasqualigo | Download | ||
| José Vega | Download | ||
| 8.2 | Geographical Indications: Practical Strategies and Pitfalls for Businesses | John Colbourn (Moderator) | Download |
| Ortrun Gunzel | Download | ||
| Stefan Hubacher | Download | ||
| Eleni Kokkini | Download | ||
| Donna Tobin | Download | ||
| IP Practice Management | |||
| 6.3 | Hedging the Risks – How to Deal with the Unexpected or the Unwanted | Philip Mendes da Costa (Moderator) | Download |
| Ruth Christophersen | Download | ||
| Stephen Krouzecky | Download | ||
| Branko Pejic | Download | ||
| 7.3 | Rationalising the Firm - Competing with Non-Lawyer Companies | Marc Levieils (Moderator) | Download |
| Stephen Carter | Download | ||
| Steven Leach | Download | ||
| 8.3 | Non-Lawyer Ownership of IP Firms | Danny Huntington (Moderator) | |
| Michael Liebetanz | |||
| Gordon Stark | Download |