28 October at 2.00pm: FairStandardsAlliance – The Challenge of Preserving Innovation: Standard Essential Patent Licensing

Klaus Haft, Partner of HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER in Düsseldorf, refers to the « Search of Legal Certainty on SEP Licensing » on the FairStandardsAlliance Online-Event

« The Challenge of Preserving Innovation: Standard Essential Patent Licensing »

The event will explore standard essential patent (SEP) licensing challenges from three different perspectives – economic, legal and business:

14:10 Standards and Innovation Through an Economist Lens

• Dr. Pierre Régibeau, Chief Economist, DG COMP, European Commission
• Prof. Fiona Scott Morton, Yale School of Management
• Dr. Benno Buehler, Charles River Associates
• Dr. Federica Maiorano, Senior Competition Expert, OECD, Competition Division (moderator)

15:20 SEP Licensing in Contemporary Supply Chains – the Business Take

• Marianne Frydenlund, Legal Director, Nordic Semiconductor
• Dr. Michael Schlögl, Head of IP SEP, Continental
• Colin S. Wright, Senior Intellectual Property Counsel, Landis+Gyr
• Kent Baker, Head of Intellectual Property, u-blox
• Evelina Kurgonaitė, Secretary General, the FSA (moderator)

16:40 In Search of Legal Certainty on SEP Licensing

• Dr. Amaryllis Verhoeven, Head of the Intellectual Property Unit, the European Commission’s Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW)
• Prof. Mark A. Lemley, Stanford Law School
• Klaus Haft, Partner, Hoyng Rokh Monegier
• Steven Baldwin, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis
• Dr. Jurgita Randakevičiūtė-Alpman, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (moderator)

You can register here.