Programme of the conference:
Regulatory and Enforcement Developments for SEPs
Warsaw 6-7 March 2025
(Programme subject to change. Additional speakers to be added.)
8.45 – 9.15
Registration
9.15 – 9.45
Introduction
Organizing Committee (Jorge Contreras, Aleksandra Kuźnicka – Cholewa, Rafał Sikorski)
Paweł Podrecki (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Żaneta Zemła – Pacud (Deputy President, Patent Office of the Republic of Poland)
9.45 – 11.15
1) Panel discussion – Policy and legislative developments related to SEPs in Europe, UK, US and Japan
Moderator: Jorge Contreras (University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law)
Kamil Kiljański (EC DG GROW), Christian Hannon (USTPO), Yoshinobu Sato (JPO),
Jamie Lewis (UK IPO), András Jókúti (WIPO)
11.15 – 11.30
Coffee Break
11.30 – 14.15
Panel discussions – Assessing policy and legislative efforts related to SEPs
11.30 – 12.45
2) Legal, policy and economic perspectives
Moderator: Corin Gittinger (Freshfields)
Josef Drexl (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition), Taraneh Maghamé (Maghame IP Consulting), Rudi Bekkers (Eindhoven University of Technology), Bowman Heiden (University of California, Berkeley), Robert Pocknell (N&M Consultancy)
12.45 – 14.15
3) Business perspectives
Moderator: Rory Clarke (Kirkland)
Urška Petrovčič (Qualcomm), Collette Rawnsley (Nokia), John Mulgrew (Lenovo), Dan Choi (Microsoft), Mattia Fogliacco (Sisvel), Steve Faraji (Volkswagen)
14.15– 15.15
Lunch
15.15 – 16.15
4) Panel discussion – Growing role of LNGs in licensing of SEPs – legal framework
Moderator: Peter Camesasca (Founder, Camesasca)
Peter Chrocziel (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Felix Engelsing (Bundeskartellamt), Patrick Hofkens (Ericsson), Uta Schneider (Avanci)
16.15 – 17.30
5) Panel discussion – Licensing of SEPs in new sectors – video streaming, wireless charging, energy, IoT
Moderator: Aleksandra Kuźnicka – Cholewa (CMS)
Joachim Henkel (Technical University of Munich), Carole Boelitz (Schneider Electric), Hélène Jay (Via Licensing), John Dubiansky (Dolby), Eckhard Bollmann (Bury)
8.30 – 9.00
Morning coffee
9.00 – 9.30
6) Comments on WTO dispute between EC and China
Ruben Schellingerhout (EC DG Trade), Ma Le (East China University of Political Science and Law)
9.30 – 10.00
Keynote – Role of UPC in patent litigation landscape
Klaus Grabinski (President of the Court of Appeal, Unified Patent Court)
10.00 – 11.45
7) Panel discussion – Judicial approaches to resolving SEP disputes in different jurisdictions
Moderator: Steven Baldwin (Kirkland)
Peter Tochtermann (Mannheim Local Division of the UPC), Fabian Hoffmann (Federal Court of Justice, Germany), Yanfang Wang (Former Justice of the Supreme People’s Court), Rt Hon Lord Justice Richard Arnold (Court of Appeal of England and Wales), Agnieszka Gołaszewska (Court of Appeal in Warsaw), Prathiba M. Singh (Delhi High Court)
11.45 – 12.00
Coffee break
12.00 – 13.00
8) Panel discussion – New SEP litigation challenges from business perspective
Moderator: Peter Slowinski (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Clemens Heusch (Nokia), Alexander Haertel (Deutsche Telekom), Pippa Wheeler (HP),
ZiAng Zhuang (Xiaomi)
13.00– 14.15
9) Panel discussion – Challenges to FRAND rate setting – negotiation v. litigation
Moderator: Mary-Rose McGuire (University of Osnabrück)
Justus Baron (Northwestern University), Jorge Padilla (Compass Lexecon), Benno Buehler (Charles River Associates), Valerio Sterzi (University of Bordeaux), Roderick McConnell (Continental)
14.15– 15.15
Lunch
15.15 – 16.30
10) Panel discussion – Spotlight on the UPC
Moderator: Rafał Sikorski (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Matthias Leistner (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich), Lisa van Dongen (University of Amsterdam), Leon Dijkman, Martin Stierle (University of Luxembourg), Wolrad Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont (Freshfields), Enrico Bonadio (City St George’s University of London), Taylor Ludlam (Lenovo)
16.30 – 17.30
11) Panel discussion – New SEP Litigation landscape: Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, India
Moderator: Rt. Hon. Sir Robin Jacob (University College London)
Juan Contreras Jaramillo (Pontifical Javeriana University), Yogesh Pai (National Law University, Delhi), Giuseppe Colangelo (University of Basilicata), Eduardo da Gama Camara Junior (Dannemann Siemsen)