Advisory Board

Chairperson: Damon Matteo (VP, Palo Alto Research Center)
Vice-chairpersons: Ulf Petrusson (Director, CIP) and Mats Lundqvist (Director, CSE)

Organizing Committee

Bo Heiden, CIP Chair

Anders Sundelin, CIP Coordinator

Anneli Hildenborg, CIP

Carina Lindberg, CIP

Jens Bördin, CIP

Jonas Pettersson, Chalmers

Karen Williams, CIP

Katja Avenstam, Chalmers

Mats Lundqvist, CIP

Ulf Petrusson, CIP

Advisory Board

Alan Bennett, Univ of California-Davis, PIPRA

Alexander Wurtzer, Director, Patev, STI-IPM

Amedeo Santosuosso, Judge, Milan Court of Appeals

Ananda Chakrabarty, Distinguished Professor, Univ of Illinois-Chicago

Andrew Hammond, Partner, Valea

Beatrix DeRusse, EVP IP & Licensing, Thomson

Bruce Berman, Managing Director, Brody/Berman

Carl Johan Sundberg, Strategy and Development Office, Karolinska Institute

Dan McCurdy, CEO, Thinkfire

Eva Jarnvall, Senior Advisor, Swedish Confederation of Industries

Frank Larsen, CEO, Birkeland Innovation

Gustav Brismark, Director, Patent Development, Ericsson

Göran Malm, Professor, School of Business, Economics, and Law, GU, fm GE, Dell)

Hans Landström, Professor, Lund University

Hugh Laddie, Chair, IP law, University College London, fm UK Chief Patent Judge)

Håkan Sjöström, Partner, Glimstedt

Ian Harvey, Chairman, Intellectual Property Institute, fm CEO BTG

John Squires, Vice President, Chief Patent Counsel and Associate General Counsel, Goldman Sachs

Jonas Gulliksson, President, Gulliksson Advocates

Karen Hersey, Visiting Professor, Franklin-Pierce Law School, fm IP Counsel MIT

Keith Bergelt, President, Paradox Capital

Kent Richardson, Vice President Intellectual Property, Rambus

Lars Engman, Director HDK, fm Global Design Director IKEA

Lucy Nichols, Vice President Brand Protection, Nokia

Martin Adelman, Professor, George Washington University

Mette Wikborg, Director General, Norwegian Ministry of Industry

Michael Cleare, Director, Columbia STV

Olle Stenberg, CEO, Chalmers Innovation

Pat Sullivan, President, ICMG

Per-Olof Hegg, CEO, LU Innovation

Randall Rader, Judge, US CAFC

Robert Barr, Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, fm Cisco Systems

Robert Buchanan, General Counsel and VP, Medexis

Rodger Jackson, IP Services, Ernst & Young

Sharon Oriel, Founder, Talisker and Associates, fm Dow Chemical

Staffan Truvé, CEO, Swedish Insitute of Computer Science

Susanne Harrison, Partner, LECG

Takayuki Sumita, Director, METI

Tidu Maini, Pro Rector, Development and Corporate Affairs, Imperial College

Tomas Thorvaldsson, Partner, Logmenn

Tove Graulund, Head of Trademark & Law, Zacco, fm ARLA

Ulla Johansson, Director Brand & Design, Victoria Institute

Ulrike Rahe, Professor, Industrial Design, Chalmers

Viggo Hansen, fm President Zacco