Sunday Workshops, May
20th
1. Building open
innovation platforms
Description:
The
term “open innovation” is becoming commonplace in the lexicon of
knowledge-based business development across all sectors. This workshop will
explore the different meanings of “open”, how openness creates value and provide a framework for developing open innovation platforms
through models and case examples.
Chairperson: Bo Heiden,
Deputy Director, CIP
Speakers:
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Bernard Munos, Eli Lilly
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John Raley, Intellectual Asset
Management, Cargill
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Daniel Särefjord, Intellectual
Asset Manager, Smith & Nephew
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Noreen Krall, VP, Sun
Microsystems
2. Best practices for managing and exploiting
intellectual property in industrial firms
Description:
In the 21st century all
firms will need to transform their industrial process to knowledge-based
business processes. This workshop will feature a number of best practice
examples of how IP management in creating value and facilitating competitive
advantage in traditional industrial firms.
Chairperson:
Speakers:
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Giandomenico Testi,
SVP, Group IP Exploitation, ABB
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Michael
Geoffrey, Chief IP
Counsel, USG Corporation
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Marc Karlsson,
Director, Innovation & Law, Kongsberg Automotive
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Martin Bader, Managing Partner, BGW and fm Chief IP Counsel, Infineon
3. IP, innovation, and ethics in bioscience
research
Description:
The reaction of many
researchers to the idea of intellectual property is often negative. This
workshop will explore the common misconceptions and discuss the opportunities
and threats of intellectual property for basic research as well as utilization
of research results from an ethics, wealth creation, and welfare perspective.
Chairperson: Greg
Becker, Associate Professor for Bioethics and Philosophy,
Speakers:
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Ananda
Chakrabarty, Distinguished Professor, University of
Illinois-Chicago
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Stephana
Patton, Associate, Edwards, Angell, Palmer &
Dodge
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Sean O’Connor, Associate Professor, CASRIP
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Richard Wessman, Associate, MAQS
4. Virtual Product
Design: Developing and leveraging IT-based services and products
Description:
Information
technology and intellectual property are two sides of the same coin allowing
for knowledge, art and creativity to be captured in virtual products. This
workshop will explore how creative efforts can be packaged as leverageable “products” through IT and the management of
intellectual assets and property.
Chairperson: Jens Bördin,
COO, CIP Professional Services
Speakers:
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Donnie Lygonis, CEO, Playdo
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Michael Stenmark, Creative
Director, Playdo
5. SMEs in asymetrical
collaborations: IPR challenges
Description:
SMEs
often have growth strategies requiring cooperation with larger partners, and
the challenge is to build an effective protection for their technology and
business concepts. However, smaller companies tend to underestimate the Management
of their Intellectual Property, and are rapidly confronted with significant
disadvantages in their long term relationship with these larger partners.
Discussing various aspects of the Management of Intellectual Property for
SMEs in asymetrical collaborations, the ambition of this workshop is to devise
a new model for assisting SMEs in defending their Intellectual Property.
Chairperson: Katarina Lundblad Pinnekamp, AdviceIPR, partner in Leogriff
Speakers:
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Description:
Though
slow to develop the financial community is beginning to recognize intellectual
property as a legitimate asset class. This workshop will use case studies to
explore the deal-making skills required and opportunities available to IP
owners to use their IP as a source of financing through securitization,
collateralization, licensing and equity transactions.
Chairperson: Bruce
Berman, President, Brody Berman Associates
Speakers:
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Keith Bergelt, CEO, Paradox
Capital
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Ron Laurie, Managing Director, Inflexion Point
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Lars Isacsson, Partner, MAQS
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Malte Koellner, Co-founder and partner, Triangle Venture Capital
Group
Description: For
most universities, licensing is a very important business model for technology
transfer to industry. However, is there a conflict between making money and
facilitating the transfer of technology? This workshop will explore the
mission, strategy, and operations of university licensing with experience from
some of the world’s most successful universities.
Chairperson:
Speakers:
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Michael Cleare,
CEO, Science and Technology Ventures,
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Tony Hickson,
Head of Biosciences, Imperial Innovation
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Amir Naiberg,
CEO, Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. and
Technology Transfer from the Weizmann Institute of
Science
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Karen Hersey,
fm Senior IP Counsel and Visiting Professor,
8. Global licensing strategies
Description:
Licensing is perhaps the
most important business tool for knowledge-based business. This workshop will
explore licensing strategies from the perspective of different industries,
objectives, and geographical regions through the experiences of leading
practitioners.
Chairperson:
Lewis Zaretzki,
EVP, Consulting Services, Thinkfire
Speakers:
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Dan McCurdy, President and CEO, Thinkfire
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John Tao, Corporate Director of Technology Partnerships, Air Products
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Kent Richardson, VP, Intellectual
Property, Rambus
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Edelbert Häfele, CEO,
PATEV (
9. Managing IP in
collaborative bioscience R&D projects
Description:
It
is rather safe to say that collaboration is becoming the predominant model for
R&D in the bioscience industry as a broad set of actors including universities,
SMEs, big industry, healthcare, and government
agencies play key roles in the value chain. This workshop is focused on the
important use of IP and IP management capabilities to govern these
collaborations.
Chairperson: Ajan
Reginald, Head of New Business Development, Roche
Speakers:
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Christine Lemke, VP, Business Development, MediGene
AG
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Mark Wilson, Director, Collaboration Management
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Stephen Yoder, Senior Counsel, Head of Licensing and IP, MorphoSys AG
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Richard Rodriguez, Chief, Cancer Branch, Division of
Technology Development &Transfer, NIH
10. IP-based economic
development in developing countries
Description:
It
could be said that developing countries struggle both in obtaining access and
utilizing other’s intellectual property as well as creating and managing their
own. They are of course not alone as developed countries have the same
difficulties. This workshop will address examples of how indigenous IP can be
created and managed to generate value for developing countries.
Chairperson:
Speakers:
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Roya Ghafele,
Research Associate, Creative and Innovative
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Peter Bloch, Co-founder and fm COO, Light Years IP
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Sverker Alänge,
Associate Professor, Chalmers
Angela
Beckenbauer , Research Associate,