
Program

30 April
18:30 – 21:00
Welcome Reception
LESI2023 will be officially opened by LESI President, Ichiro Nakatomi.
Join us to celebrate the opening of the Conference with drinks and canapés accompanied by an amazing jazz band playing live throughout the evening.
Event Sponsor and Guest Speaker:
21:00 – 00:00
YMC Offsite Networking Event
Please join StoneTurn for a Cocktail Reception in appreciation of the LES Young Members Congress.
This event is being held at Yoko Luna restaurant (only one block from the Conference Hotel) and will immediately follow the LESI2023 Welcome Reception.
Event Sponsor:
1 May
08:30 – 08:45
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Ichiro Nakatomi
LESI PresidentAvida ScienceLES Japan
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Bob Held
Conference ChairHeld IPLES USA-Canada
08:45 – 09:30
Keynote Speaker
Creativity to Build Intellectual Property
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Daniel Lamarre
Executive Vice-Chairman of the BoardCirque du Soleil
09:30 – 10:30
Panel Discussion
Introduction of new IP Business Models in Drug Discovery
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Elizabeth Douville
President and Chief OfficerIRICoR
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Lloyd Segal
President & CEORepare Therapeutics
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Yasunori Yamaguchi
President and CEOIP Gaia
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Gordon McCauley
President and CEOadMare BioInnovations
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Charles Gore
Executive DirectorMedicines Patent Pool
11:00 – 12:30
Workshop 1
Navigating the Deep Tech Frontier in Life Sciences Innovation
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Danie Dohmen
PartnerAdams & Adams
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Gina Bicknell
PartnerPinsent Masons LLP
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David McIntosh
PartnerRopes & Gray
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Jude Sullivan
General CouncilEvozyne Inc
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Madelein Kleyn
Chief Legal OfficerOmnisient (Pty) Ltd
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Richa Pandey
PartnerKrishna & Saurastri
11:00 – 12:30
Workshop 2
It’s all about the Money – Licensing, Securitization, and other uses of IP portfolios by Start-up Companies in the US, Canada, Europe and Asia
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Bruce H. Bernstein
FounderGreenblum & Bernstein PLC
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Donald Min
Patent Attorney/formerly VP Withrow & Terranova
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Nora Kessler
PartnerKlinkert Partners
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Santosh K. Chari
Founding PartnerCPST Intellectual Property
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Seungyeob Baik
Patent Attorney & FounderNear & Wise IP
11:00 – 12:30
Workshop 3
Investing, M&A and Licensing on Gaming Industry – What You Need to Know Before
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Tatiana Campello
PartnerDemarest Advogados
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Reid Schneider
Studio HeadRaccoon Logic Studios Inc
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Marc Beaudet
Co- FounderTurbulent
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Vincent Bergeron
Partner, Lawyer and Trademark AgentROBIC, LLP
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11:00 – 12:30
Workshop 4
Regulatory & Legislative Trends Affecting Standard Essential Patents (SEPs)
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Natalie Raffoul
Patent Lawyer, Managing PartnerBrion Raffoul
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John Donch Jr
President and ShareholderVolpe Koenig
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Stéphane Tronchon
Senior Director of Standards and Competition PolicyInterDigital
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Peter Toto
Senior Vice President Intellectual Property DepartmentSony
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András Jókúti
Intellectual Property LawyerWIPO
11:00 – 12:30
Workshop 5
Using Federated Data Models to Reduce Barriers to Licensing Data
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Charlie Macedo
PartnerAmster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP
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Dinesh Divakaran
Vice President of PartnershipsOwkin
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Irene Abrams
Vice President, Technology Development and New VenturesBoston Children’s Hospital
13:30 – 14:00
Keynote Speaker
A Global Leader in Clean Energy: How 75 Years of Innovation is Shaping the Future of Hydro-Québec
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François Ramsay
General CounselHydro-Québec
14:00 – 15:00
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Mattia Fogliacco
PresidentSisvel
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Pat Patnode
PresidentGeneral Electric
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Heath Hoglund
PresidentVia Licensing
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Dan McCurdey
CEORPX
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Fabian Gonell
Senior Vice PresidentQualcomm
14:00 – 15:00
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John Carney
DirectorChina IP Exchange, LLC
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Laurie Fitzgerald
Senior Vice PresidentAvanci
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Christopher Ralph
ManagerLion Electric
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Matthieu Loos
Senior Technical AdvisorFlo EV Charging
14:00 – 15:00
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Tilman Müller-Stoy
Patent LitigatorBardehle Pagenberg
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Adam Rattray
Head of the Information and External Relations WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center.
15:00 – 15:30
Roundtable 1
Differences in the Method of Technology Transfer from the Perspective of Universities in Turkey and Slovakia
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Onur Yolay
TTO ManagerBezmialem Vakif University
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Natália Molnárová
Technology Transfer ManagerSlovak University of Technology
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Lucia Rybanská
Director of the Know-how Centre STUSlovak University of Technology
15:00 – 15:30
Roundtable 2
Standard Essential Patents: Update on Global FRAND Rate Setting
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David Yurkerwich
Senior Managing DirectorAnkura Consulting Group
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Nina Belbl
Associate Legal OfficerWIPO
15:00 – 15:30
Roundtable 3
Surviving and Thriving: How Can Start-up’s Better Leverage Their IP Portfolios for Funding and Exit
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Efrat Kasznik
PresidentForesight Valuation Group, LLC
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Fiona Nicolson
ConsultantBurness Paull
15:00 – 15:30
Roundtable 4
Investing in Societal Good: Changing Paradigm
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Marion ”Amy” Dietterich
Director of the Global Challenges DivisionWIPO
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Mark Wilson
DirectorStrategic Technology Bio Consulting
15:00 – 15:30
Roundtable 5
IP-Led Growth and Expansion: Journey from the Chemistry Lab to Global Commercialization
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Jayde Wood
Lawyer, Patent Agent, and Trademark AgentGowling WLG
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George Elvira
PartnerGowling WLG
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Joseph Mancini
Vice President and Head of Biological SciencesadMare BioInnovations
15:00 – 15:30
Roundtable 6
Cross-Border IP and Licensing Issues for Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
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Renzo Scavia
AttorneyScavia & Scavia
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Mattia Dalla Costa
PartnerCBA
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Hilton Sue
PartnerOyen Wiggs
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Tatiana Campello
PartnerDemarest Advogados
15:00 – 16:00
Roundtable 7
Importance of Mentorship and Annual Highlights from WILA followed by a Reception
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Judith Miller
Principal & National Practice Group LeaderWrays Lawyers
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Pamela Cox
PartnerMarshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP
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Isabelle Trempe
Vice-PresidentPaladin
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Ningling Wang
PartnerFinnegan
16:00 – 17:30
Workshop 6
Challenges of SEP Licensing in a Fully Connected World
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Tim Pohlmann
CEO and FounderIplytics
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Kimberly Chotkowski
PresidentBrandywine Ventures LLC
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Klaus Mannsperger
CEOMercedes-Benz Intellectual Property
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Fabian Gonell
Senior Vice PresidentQualcomm
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Alan Fan
Vice PresidentHuawei Technologies
16:00 – 17:30
Workshop 7
Data Rights Assertions are how Intellectual Property (IP) Providers Convey IP Rights to U.S. Government Customers
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Bruce Villard
Intellectual Property (IP) ManagerNorthrop Grumman Systems Corporation
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Gillian Fenton
Special Counsel GSK
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Adriana S. Luedke
Director and Associate General CounselLockheed Martin Corporation
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Carolyn Tomberlin
Collins Aerospace
16:00 – 17:30
Workshop 8
The Unified Patent Court — It Has Finally Arrived
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Robert Sterne
Founding DirectorSterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
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Naomi Pearce
CEO and Executive Lawyer, Patent Attorney and Trade Mark Attorney, and FounderPearce IP
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Koen Bijvank
PartnerBrinkhof
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Mariella Massaro
PartnerBerggren Oy
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Peter Damerell
PartnerPowell Gilbert
16:00 – 17:30
Workshop 9
Various Legal Issues in the Metaverse
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Georgina Busku
Attorney-at-LawThum & Partner
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Sherry L. Rollo
PartnerHahn Loeser
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Sungpil Hwang
Startup Investor, Patent and Trademark AttorneyE.M. Hwang & Partners
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Eszter Szakács
PartnerDanubia Legal
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Allen Wang
Managing PartnerBeijing TA Law Firm
16:00 – 17:30
Workshop 10
High-Growth Technology Business Forum – Special Start-up Edition. A Live Case Study Experience
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Juergen Graner
CEOGlobalator
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Sonja London
General Counsel and Licensing ExecutiveTactoTek
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Jean Le Bouthillier
Founder & CEO Qohash
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Bienvenido Marquez III
PartnerQuisumbing Torres
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Dana Robert Colarulli
Executive DirectorLESI
19:00 – 00:00
Gala Dinner with Entertainment
Held at st James Theatre
A 3-course meal followed by some very exciting entertainment!
2 May
08:30 – 09:00
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Dana Robert Colarulli
Executive DirectorLESI
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Tanja Sovic
Head of Patent & License Management TU Wien
09:00 – 09:30
Keynote Speaker
On the Path to Net Zero: Air Mobility Compelled to Innovate
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Marc St-Hilaire
Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Technology & InnovationCAE
09:30 – 10:30
Panel Discussion
AI’s Evaluation and Impact Given to the Business and Intellectual Property Law Systems
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Toshimoto Mitomo
Executive Deputy President and CSOSony Group Corporation
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Alice Xiang
Global Head of AI EthicsSony Group Corporation
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Leann Pinto
PresidentIPwe
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Stephanie Curcio
IP CEO & Co-FounderNLPatent
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Dan Neely
Co-Founder and CEOVermillio
11:00 – 12:30
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James Sobieraj
PartnerCrowell & Moring LLP
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Adam Rattray
Head of the Information and External Relations WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center.
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Pamela Cox
PartnerMarshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP
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Charles Valauskas
Legal CounselValauskas Corder LLC
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Linda Kawano
FounderGroupOptima
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Peggy Burns
PublisherDrawn & Quarterly
11:00 – 12:30
Workshop 12
Foodie Art: RTD to Plant-Based Products – Commercialization of IP in the Food and Beverage Industry
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Jayde Wood
Lawyer, Patent Agent, and Trademark AgentGowling WLG
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Rickey Yada
Dean of the Faculty of Land and Food SystemsUniversity of British Columbia
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Janet Lau
Senior IP & Compliance ManagerMark Anthony Group
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Yves Potvin
FounderYves Veggie Cuisine and Garden Protein International
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Jeff Turner
Retired/Former President & CEODefyrus Inc. (retired)
11:00 – 12:30
Workshop 13
The Future of Branding & Licensing in the Entertainment/Games Industry and in Online Virtual Reality
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Lionel Tan
PartnerRajah & Tann Singapore LLP
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Alan Hunt
PartnerLewis Silkin LLP
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Rob Potter
PartnerKilpatrick Townsend
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Stu Seltzer
PresidentSeltzer Licensing Group
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Erica Carter
Senior Counsel, Legal and Business AffairsEpic Games, Inc.
11:00 – 12:30
Workshop 14
UPC Litigation & UP Prosecution – Chances, Risks, Strategies
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Tilman Müller-Stoy
Patent LitigatorBardehle Pagenberg
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Agathe Michel de Cazotte
PartnerCarpmaels & Ransford
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Mattia Dalla Costa
PartnerCBA
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Jean-Hyacinthe de Mitry
PartnerGides
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Gabriele Mohsler
Vice President Patent Development at IPR & LicensingEricsson
11:00 – 12:30
Workshop 15
2022 LES Physical Sciences (formerly CEEM) Royalty Rates & Deal Terms Survey
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Ann M. Cannoni
Partner and Vice PresidentThe Webb Law Firm
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Shayne Phillips
Director of Analytics SolutionsAnaqua
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Ningling Wang
PartnerFinnegan
13:30 – 14:00
Keynote Speaker
Update and Initiatives from the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Vaishali Udupa
Commissioner for PatentsUnited States Patent and Trademark Office
14:00 – 14:30
Roundtable 8
Data Analytics for the Modern IP Professional
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Sam Wiley
Vice President, Thought Leadership & Partnerships LOT Network
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Neil Zoltowski
PartnerStoneTurn Group
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Elise Neils
DirectorGE Licensing
14:00 – 14:30
Roundtable 9
Latest Case Decisions Affecting Patent License in U.S., Europe, and Japan
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Yorikastu Hohokabe
Senior AdvisorOBLON Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi Jimusho
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Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine
Patent LitigatorHoffmann Eitle
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Hideaki Kobayashi
PartnerOhno & Partners
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Frank J. West
PartnerOblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, LLP
14:00 – 14:30
Roundtable 10
How will the New European Horizontal Block Exemption Regulations Affect Cooperation Agreements like Standardization and R&D
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Dario Paschetta
PartnerFrignani Virano e Associati
14:00 – 14:30
Roundtable 11
Licensing in an Era of Pandemics, Regional Conflicts, and Climate Change: Mitigating your Supply Chain Risks
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Eric Gottschling
Global DirectorBorgWarner
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Shayne Phillips
Director of Analytics SolutionsAnaqua
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David Powsner
Intellectual Property LawyerDavid Malm
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Stacey Dunn
Lawyer and Patent AgentROBIC
14:00 – 14:30
Roundtable 12
State of Industry Panel Discussion on CEEM Industries
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Ningling Wang
PartnerFinnegan
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Sarah Basford
Chief IP CounselRio Tinto
14:00 – 14:30
Roundtable 13
LES USA Approved Standards
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Karthika Perumal
IP Transactions PartnerWomble Bond Dickinson LLP
14:00 – 14:30
Roundtable 14
Strategies for Navigating the mRNA and Lipid Nanoparticle IP and Competitive Landscape
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Dan Shores
PartnerRothwell Figg
14:00 – 14:30
Roundtable 15
Digital Unicorns and Tangible Profits: An Overview of Recent Esports Growth
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Paul Ashcraft
Lead Patent AgentPearson Education, Inc.
16:00 – 17:30
Workshop 16
Data-Driven Decision-Making for IP Licensing and Transaction: Use LES Royalty Survey Reports and Other Data Sources to Guide Monetization Campaigns
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Bob Held
Conference ChairHeld IPLES USA-Canada
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Jack Lu
Founding PartnerIPMAP LLC
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Mike Perham
Director, Innovations and External Relations Howard Hughes Medical Institute
16:00 – 17:30
Workshop 17
The U.S. CHIPS Act and the New Export Control Rules on Chips – Ongoing Shift in Tech Relations with China and Impact on Licensing
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Yuanyou Yang
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur
16:00 – 17:30
Workshop 18
Business Secrets: the next big revolution ?
Do’s and don’ts in the protection and valuation of trade secrets: a practical management approach
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Mattia Dalla Costa
PartnerCBA
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Fabian Böttger
Director Legal & IPresano GmbH – a BioNTech company
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Bruce Villard
Intellectual Property (IP) ManagerNorthrop Grumman Systems Corporation
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Laura MacDonald
Chief ExecutiveASTP Proton
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Pierre Ollivier
PartnerWinnotek
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Sylvain Roy
Canadian AttorneyLaw offices of Sylvain Roy
16:00 – 17:30
Workshop 19
Innovation Investment and IP Valuation on SDG/ESG
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Annie Gauthier
Partner, LawyerBCF
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Iulian Bobe
Co-Founder and Chief Technology OfficerCirc
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Benjamin Young
CEOFyber X
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Tadashi Matsumoto
President & CEO ReqMed Company, Ltd
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Lally Rementilla
Managing PartnerBDC
17:30 – 17:45
Close of Day 2
Brief “Executive” Highlights from Day 2 and Presentation from LESI 2024 Madrid
19:00 – 00:00
Farewell Event
In 1847, the “New City Gas Company of Montreal” used this site to transform coal into gas to light the streets of the city.
Today, their sources of energy take shape through art, music and gastronomy. More than ever, New City Gas makes Montreal shine and will give you the opportunity to feel the unique energy that inhabits this iconic place.
Explore the highly-curated NFT Gallery while enjoying your arrival drink! Followed by a buffet dinner and even more entertainment!