SEPT 23

18:00 (CET) - Evening Drinks Reception & Canapés — Rosewood Hotel Munich

19:00 - Q&A with UPC Judge Ronny Thomas — Moderated by Tobias Wuttke of Bardehle

SEPT 24

09:00 - Breakfast Reception & Opening Remarks — Rosewood Hotel Munich

09:45 - Panel 1: The UPC One Year In - Analysis & Future Expectations

Moderator: Dr. Sophie Ertl – Partner, Patent Attorney, Maiwald Intellectual Property

Dr. Clemens Heusch – LL.M., VP, Head of Global Litigation and Disputes, Nokia

Dr. Bo Hyun Lee – Senior IP Counsel, Europe IP Office, LG Energy Solution

Mattie de Koning – Chief IP Officer, i4F Licensing

Güler Ayyıldız Dalma – Intellectual Property Director, Beko

Alex Wilson – Partner, Powell Gilbert

10:45 - Networking Break

11:15 - Panel 2: Best Practice: Lessons learnt from Scaling up or down an in-house Legal & IP function       

Moderator: Victoria Jackson – Partner, Adamson & Partners

Svenia Roggenkamp – Hilti, Group General Counsel & Company Secretary

Marco Rau – CureVac, General Counsel, SVP Legal & Compliance

Maria Hemberg – Volvo Cars, Senior Advisor to the CEO & former General Counsel

Ferdinand Winter – General Counsel & Head of Compliance, Hansa Biopharma AB

12:15 - Lunch

13:30 - Keynote: The UPC: a new era of SEP Litigation? - Prof. Dr. Peter Tochtermann — Judge, Court of First Instance, United Patent Court

Moderator: Dr. Benno Bühler – Vice President, Charles River Associates

13:50 - Panel 3: IoT and the UPC - A new dawn for SEPs?

Moderator: Dr. Benno Bühler – Vice President, Charles River Associates

Prof. Dr. Peter Tochtermann – Judge, Court of First Instance, Unified Patent Court

Prof. Josef Drexl, LLM – Director, Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation & Competition

Le Chen – Senior Director, IP Policy & Dispute Resolution, Xiaomi

Jonas Hein, LLM – EC, Legal and Policy Officer, European Commission, DG GROW

Hüseyin Kebapci, LLM – Senior Legal Officer, WIPO

Dr. Claudia Tapia – Head of IPR Policy Research, Ericsson

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