Programme

Thursday, 30 June 2005

09.00 Registration

10.00 Welcome speech

Rezzo Schlauch, Parlamentary State Secretary, German Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour

10.15 Opening session

Herwig Schlögl, Deputy Secretary General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Alain Pompidou, President, European Patent Office
Keynote speech I

Ashish Arora, Professor, The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management,
Carnegie Mellon University
Keynote speech II

Ruud Peters, Chief Executive Officer, Philips Intellectual Property and Standards

11.30 Coffee Break

12.00 Session 1

New uses of IP and need for valuation
Chair: Joff Wild, Editor, Intellectual Asset Management Magazine

Isabel Verlinden, Managing Partner, Eurofirm Transfer Pricing Services, PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Malte Köllner, Managing Partner, Triangle Venture Capital Group

Riikka Heikinheimo, Executive Director, Research Funding, Tekes, National Technology Agency Finland

13.30 Lunch

15.00 Parallel Sessions 2A and 2B

2A: How can SMEs actively use patent protection and licensing as a business strategy?

Chair: Wolfram Förster, Head, Controlling Office, European Patent Office

Mathias Kunz, Chief Executive Officer, t-blade GmbH

Richard Simmons, European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Wolfgang Knappe, Head, Fraunhofer Patent Center for German Research


2B: IP and technology intermediaries

Chair: Luuk Borg, Head, Patent Information, Netherlands Patent Office

Alexander Wurzer, Director, Steinbeis Transfer Institute

Walter Holzer, European Patent Attorney, Past President, European Patent Institute

Phil B. Stern, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Yet2.com

David Secher, Director, Research Services, University of Cambridge

16.30 Coffee Break

17.00 Session 3

IP management and exploitation: practices across industries

Chair: Heinz Goddar, European Patent and Trademark Attorney, Past President, Licensing Executives Society International and Germany

Volker Plogmann, Managing Director, Patent and Trademark Department, Wilhelm Karmann GmbH

Kevin Nachtrab, Director, IP Department, Innogenetics

Botaro Hirosaki, Senior Vice-President, Executive General Manager, Intellectual Asset Operations Unit, NEC Corporation

18.30 Cocktail and Dinner
at the premises of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour

Friday, 1 July 2005

09.00 Session 4
Encouraging valuation and exploitation: The experience of public institutions

Chair: Jürgen Schade, President, German Patent and Trademark Office

Kiyoshi Yonetsu, Director, International Affairs Division, Japan Patent Office

Lawrence Cullen, Senior Policy Advisor, IP Policy Directorate, United Kingdom Patent Office

Jon Santamauro, Intellectual Property Attaché, United States Trade Representative‘s Office

Roya Ghafele, Associate Economic Officer, IP and Economic Development Department, World Intellectual Property Organisation

10.30 Coffee Break

11.00 Parallel Sessions 5A and 5B

5A: Methods for patent valuation

Chair: Nobuo Tanaka, Director for Science, Technology and Industry, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Martin Zieger, Partner, Corporate Finance, KPMG

Guido von Scheffer, Director, Sales and Organisation, IP Bewertungs AG

Werner Fröhling, Head, Patent Department, Volvo

Markus Reitzig, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School


5B: Macroeconomic evaluations of licensing markets in Europe, Japan and the United States

Chair: Manuel Desantes, Vice-President, European Patent Office

Alfonso Gambardella, Professor, Bocconi University

Kazuyuki Motohashi, Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo

Iain Cockburn, Professor, Boston University

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Session 6

Encouraging valuation and exploitation – What could government do (or not)?

Chair: Herwig Schlögl, Deputy Secretary General, Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development

Hisamitsu Arai, Secretary General, IP Headquarters, Cabinet Secretariat of Japan

Heinz Zourek, Deputy Director General, Directorate General Enterprise, European Commission

Wilhelm Niemeier, Director General, Economic Law Department, German Federal Ministry of Justice

15.30 End