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PROGRAM SCHEDULE
DAY 1, 15TH JANUARY 2015, THURSDAY
08:00 am
09:00 am 10:30 am
Registration
Inaugural Session,
Welcome Address:
Dr. Dhanpat Ram Agarwal, Founder Director, ITAG Business Solutions Ltd.
Guests of Honour:
Shri Chaitanya Prasad, IAS, Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks, Indian Patent Office
Distinguished Guests:
V Lakshmi Kumaran, Managing Partner, Lakshmi Kumaran & Sridharan
Michael R. Dzwonczyk, Partner, Sughrue Mion PLLC
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sigram Schindler, Founder & CEO, TELES Patent Rights International
Edmond Simon, Director General , BOIP
Mahendra Kumar Agarwal, CEO, GATI Ltd.
Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar, Partner, Boehmert & Boehmert
John. C. Paul, Partner, Finnegan
10:30 am 11:00 am
11:00 am 12:30 pm
Coffee Break and Networking Session ( In the Exhibition Area)
Plenary Session I,
Theme: Power of IP : Gateway to Growth
Moderator:
V Lakshmi Kumaran, Managing Partner, Lakshmi Kumaran & Sridharan
Speakers:
Daniel R. Bereskin, Q.C. Founding Partner, Bereskin & Parr LLP
Brian Hinman, Chief IP Officer, Philips
Dr. Santosh Kumar Mohanty, Vice President and Senior Executive , TCS
Fernando dos Santos, Director General, ARIPO
Michael R. Dzwonczyk, Partner, Sughrue Mion PLLC
12:30 pm 01:30pm
1
Lunch Break ( In the Exhibition Area)
1
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DAY 1, 15TH JANUARY 2015, THURSDAY
01:30 pm 03:30 pm
Technical Session I : International
Patent Filings & Drafting Strategies
Technical Session II : IPR Regime in
India for Patentability & Compulsory
Licensing of Pharma drugs
Technical Session III : IP Portfolio
Management
Moderator:
Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar, Partner,
Boehmert & Boehmert
Moderator:
Dr. Sumesh Reddy, Senior VP, Mylan
Laboratories
Moderator:
Abhishek Malhotra, Managing
Partner, TMT Law Practice
Speakers:
Dr. Stefan Schohe, Patent Attorney,
Boehmert & Boehmert
Speakers:
Rahul Vartak, Partner, Krishna &
Saurastri
G Deepak Sriniwas, Partner, LexOrbis
Dr. Syed Tarique Abdullah, Assistant
Director, Daiichi Sankyo India Pharma Pvt.
Ltd.
Speakers:
Micheal Degn, Director-Business
Development, MultiLing Germany
GmbH
Dr. Stephen Geary, Director, Bawden
and Associates
James D. Hallenbeck, Partner
Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner
Dr. Arpita Bhattacharyya, Associate,
Finnegan …………………………………………...
Alpesh Pathak, Head Patent Cell, Intas
Pharmaceuticals
R. Lakshminarayanan, Head IPR,
Samsung Research India
Taranpreet Singh Lamba, General
Manager IPM, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals
Ltd.
Yati Agarwal, Chief Operating Officer,
Landon IP India
Alka Mehta, Head - IP, Cipla Ltd.
03:30 pm 04:00pm
04:00 pm 06:00 pm
2
Gary Speier, Partner, Schwegman
Lundberg & Woessner
Coffee break and Networking Session ( In the Exhibition Area)
Technical Session IV : IP Cases and
related judgements
Technical Session V : IP and Pharma
Industry under various Jurisdiction
Technical Session VI : Critical IP
Issues in Practice by In-house IP
Experts
Moderator:
Dr.-Ing. Sigram Schindler, Founder &
CEO, TELES Patent Rights International
Moderator:
Rana Gosain, Senior Partner, Daniel
Advagados
Moderator:
Dawn Jos, Patent Strategy Manager
Asia, Texas Instruments
Speakers:
Dr. Mohan Dewan, Principal, RK
Dewan & Co.
Speakers:
Dr. Dean Fanelli, Founding Partner,
Fanelli Haag & Kilger PLLC
Archana Shanker, Senior Partner,
Anand and Anand
Dr. Christian Kilger, Founding Partner,
Fanelli Haag & Kilger PLLC
Speakers:
J. L. Anil Kumar, Head - IP&S India,
Philips Intellectual Property &
Standards
Gustavo de Freitas Morais, Partner,
Dannemann Siemsen
Dr. Sandeep Basra, Patent Attorney,
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Mangala Venkatramani, Head Indian Patent Group, Unilever
Zsolt Szentpéteri, Patent attorney,
SBGK Patent & Law Offices
Thomas J. Filarski, Partner, Steptoe &
Johnson LLP, and John J. Molenda,
Partner, Steptoe & Johnson LLP
(co - presenter)
Dr. S. Senthil Kumar, Head - IP, ABB
Corporate Research
Rowan Joseph, Partner & Patent Litigator,
Von Seidels
07:30 pm
Rahul Dubey, Innovation Leader & IP
Manager, General Electric India
S. K. Murthy, Patent Counsel, Intel
Shreedhar Parundekar, Brand
Protection Manager, Mercedes Benz
India Private Limited
Cocktail Dinner (By Invitation)
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DAY 2, 16TH JANUARY 2015, FRIDAY
09:00 am10:30 am
Theme: Enforcement of IP (Judiciary & Customs)
Plenary Session II,
Moderator:
Dr. Mohan Dewan, Principal, R K Dewan & Co.
Speakers:
Paul Fehlner, Global Head - IP, Novartis Pharma AG
Pravin Anand, Managing Partner, Anand & Anand
Parthasarathy R., Sr. Partner & Country Head, Lakshmi Kumaran & Sridharan
Abhai Pandey, Partner, LexOrbis
Jay A. Erstling, Of Counsel, Patterson Thuente IP
10:30 am 11:00 am
11:00 am 12:30 pm
Coffee Break and Networking Session ( In the Exhibition Area)
Plenary Session III,
Theme: Emerging Issues Arising from Licensing & Technology Transfer
Moderator & Speakers:
Dr. Manoj Madhukar Haridas, Head – IP, ITC Ltd
Speakers:
Daniel E. Altman, Partner, Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear
Harnik Shukla, Associate, Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear
Terry Ludlow , Chairman & CEO, Chipworks
Jay Nanavati, Former White Collar Federal Prosecutor, BakerHosteler LLP
Art Nutter, Founder & Chairman, TAEUS International Corporation
12:30 pm 01:30 pm
3
Lunch Break & Networking ( In the Exhibition Area)
3
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DAY 2, 16TH JANUARY 2015, FRIDAY
01:30 pm–
03:30 pm
Technical Session VII : Cutting-Edge
Technology for Patent Analysis
Technical Session VIII: IP
Accounting, Taxation & Valuation
Moderator:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sigram Schindler,
Founder & CEO, TELES Patent Rights
International
Moderator:
Suhas Tuljapurkar, Director, Legasis
Speakers:
Prof. Bernd Wegner, Mathematics
Department, Technical University of
Berlin
Dörte Schönberg, Dipl.-Math, TELES
Patent Rights International GmbH
Speakers:
Marcia Coutinho, General
Manager, RoyaltyStat LLC
Ravi Bhola, Partner, K&S Partners
Naresh Kilaru, Of Counsel, Finnegan
Ninad Phatarpekar, Manager, Aranca
Ashish Mishra, Managing Director,
Interbrand India
Technical Session IX : IP Management
Moderator:
Dr. Dhanpat Ram Agarwal, Founder
Director, ITAG Business Solutions Ltd.
Speakers:
Subhadip Sarkar, Senior Director - IP,
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Dr. Pinaki Ghosh - AVP & Head of IP,
Reliance Industries Ltd.
Dr. Aravind Chinchure, Former Asst. Vice
President - Innovations, Reliance Industries
Tarun Khurana, Partner, Khurana And
Khurana Advocates
Ganapathy Narayanan, Head - Corporate
IPR, Tata Consultancy Services
03:30 pm 04:00 pm
04:00 pm 06:00 pm
Coffee Break and Networking Session ( In the Exhibition Area)
Technical Session X : Patentability
in High-Tech Fields – A Comparative
Approach
Technical Session XI : Litigation &
Monetisation: Striking the right
Balance
Technical Session XII :
Trademark & Brand Equity
Moderator:
Dr. Stefan V Steinbrener, Consultant,
Bardehle Pagenberg
Moderator:
John. C. Paul, Partner, Finnegan
Keynote Speaker & Moderator :
Edmond Simon, Director General, BOIP
Speakers:
Dr. Stefan Schohe, Patent Attorney,
Boehmert & Boehmert
Speakers:
Anand Sharma, Partner, Finnegan
Speakers:
Farah P. Bhatti, Partner, BakerHostetler
LLP
Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar, Partner,
Boehmert & Boehmert
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Raj Gupta, Partner, Finnegan
Naresh Kilaru, Of Counsel, Finnegan
Gautam Banerjee, Principal Associate,
Khaitan & Co.
Vaidya D. P., Director, Lakshmi
Kumaran & Sridharan
D. Venkat Reddy, Advocate, APTLEX
Associates
Bhupinder Randhawa, Partner
Bereskin & Parr LLP
Mustafa Safiyuddin, Chairman,
Legasis Partners
Erik van der Vyver, Partner and Patent
attorney, Von Seidels
Lucy Rana, Advocate, S S Rana & Co
Charu Lata, COO, 101Domains
Cultural Programme ( By Invitation)
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DAY 3, 17TH JANUARY 2015, SATURDAY
09:00 am 11:00 am
Technical Session XIII : Critical Issues
of IP in Information and Communication Technology Industry
Moderator:
Dr. Roland Kehrwald, Senior Partner,
Wildanger Kehrwald Graf v. Schwerin &
Partner
Speakers:
D. Calab Gabriel, Senior Partner, K&S
Partners
Meenu Chandra, Director, IP Policy,
Legal & Corporate Affairs (LCA),
Microsoft
Technical Session XIV : Pharmaceutical
Patent Litigation
Moderator:
Gurpreet Singh Walia, Special Counsel
Cohen & Gresser LLP
Speakers:
Santosh K. Chari, Partner, Blake
Cassels & Graydon LLP
Dr. A. K. S. Bhujanga Rao, President R&D and Technical, NATCO Pharma
Limited
Wayne Condon, Principal, Griffith Hack
Vineet Vij, Vice President, HCL
Technologies Ltd.
Dr. Balu Gupta, Patent Counsel ,
Promerus
Technical Session XV : Innovation
Process Management at different
stages of R&D
Moderator:
Andra Musatescu, Managing
Partners, Andra Musatescu Law &
Industrial Property offices
Speakers:
Madhav Kulkarni, Leader - IP Search
& Analysis, Dow Chemical
Dr. Shankar Venugopal, Director
Technology & Planning & Innovation,
Cummins
Hemant Singh, Managing Partner
INTTL Advocare
Sukuru Ramakrishna Rao, Chief
Scientist, CSIR
Jitin Talwar, Partner, Talwar Advocates,
Founder TT Consultants
Mandar Kodgule, Senior VP,
Wockhardt Ltd.
Munish Sudan, Head - IP Cell ,Tata
Steel
11:00 am 11:30 am
11:30 am 01:30 pm
Coffee Break and Networking Session ( In the Exhibition Area)
Technical Session XVI : Litigation
and Prosecution Strategies
Technical Session XVII: IP Practices in
Asia
Technical Session XVIII: Challenges
for Copyright Protection from
Digital Technology
Moderator:
Dr. Malathi Lakshmikumaran,
Director & Practice Head of IPR, Lakshmi
Kumaran & Sridharan
Moderator:
Akiyoshi Imaura, Director - IPR, Japan
External Trade Organization
Moderator:
Ayan Roy Chowdhury, Assistant Vice
President - Legal, Sony Entertainment
Television
Speakers:
Hironobu Hattori, Partner, Nakamura &
Partners
Speakers:
James Martin, Director, Fieldfisher
H. L . Narendra Bhatta, Founder & CEO,
Intellocopia IP Services
Omesh Puri, Senior Associate,
LexOrbis
Rahul Verma, Vice President, Evalueserve
Dr. Rami M. Olwan, Assistant
Professor, Sharjah University
Speakers:
Timothy H. Kratz, Partner, McGuireWoods LLP
Gregory L. Maurer, Partner, Klarquist
Sparkman LLP
Abe Hershkovitz, CEO, Hershkovitz &
Associates
Jennifer Harris, Partner, Kilburn &
Strode LLP
Mohan K., Director, ADASTRA Intellectual
Property Sdn Bhd
Harshavardhan Lale, PWC
Abhishek Malhotra, Managing
Partner, TMT Law Practice
01:30 pm 02:30 pm
5
Lunch Break & Networking, ( In the Exhibition Area)
5
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DAY 3, 17TH JANUARY 2015, SATURDAY
02:30 pm –
04:30 pm
Technical Session XIX : Arbitration
and Litigation
Moderator:
Speakers:
Rajeshwari Hariharan, FounderRajeshwari & Associates
Rakesh Mehta, Counsel, BakerHostetler LLP
Chris Milton, Associate, J A Kemp
Richard Baddeley, Principal,
Watermark
4:30 pm 05:00 pm
5:00 pm –
6:30 pm
Technical Session XX : IP Monetisation
Technical Session XXI: IPR Policy
Moderator:
Alexander W. Koff, Partner, WTP
Moderator:
Prof. Prabuddha Ganguli, MHRD IPR
Chair Professor, Tezpur University and
Keynote Speaker:
Douglas Graham, Former Managing
Director, Ideation Inc.
CEO, Vision-IPR
Speakers:
Chitra K. Iyer, IP Leader - India, DuPont
Speakers:
Dr. Dhanpat Ram Agarwal,
Founder Director, ITAG Business Solutions Ltd.
Nandan Pendsey, Senior Associate ,AZB &
Partners
Mr. Narendra Sabharwal, IPR-Chair,
FICCI
Dr. Sudeep Basu, Practice Leader Innovation Services , Frost & Sullivan
Tabrez Ahmad, Secretary General,
OPPI.
Adheesh Nargolkar, Partner, Khaitan &
Co.
Dr. C. K. Sehgal, Senior Partner,
Sehgal IPR Services
Coffee Break and Networking Session ( In the Exhibition Area)
Theme: Developing an IP Ecosystem
Plenary Session IV,
Moderator:
Prof. Dr. V. C. Vivekanand, MHRD IP Chair Professor , NALSAR University of Law
Speakers:
Dr. Niti Dewan, Head of Patents & Business Development, R K Dewan & Co.
Keith Bergelt, CEO, Open Invention Network
Abhishek Malhotra, Managing Partner, TMT Law Practice
Dinesh K. Pillai , CEO, Mahindra Special Services Group
Sudha Kannan, Head –Patent Cell & Knowledge Center, Aditya Birla Science & Technology Co. Ltd.
Andrew Davidson, Head of Global Cooperation and Development, UK IP Office
06:30 pm 07:30 pm
6
Networking & Open forum Session ( In the Exhibition Area)
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