Advancing the
business of
intellectual
property
globally
P R O G R A M M E
Two-day
Meeting
Licensing
Course
2014
Brussels
Monday 17 – Tuesday 18
November 2014
Thon Hotel EU,
Brussels – Belgium
www.les-benelux.org
PROGRAMME
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Sunday, 16 November 2014
18h30 - 20h00
“Attending the LES Benelux Licensing
Course required some hard work, both
with the preliminary exercises as well
as during the course. But it was
beyond doubt worth it! Not only due
to the knowledge and hints provided
by the lecturers but also due to the
network generated during the days
and evenings”.
Registration and welcome drink
Monday, 17 November 2014 – Day 1
08h00 Registration and coffee
09h00 Welcome and introduction
Chaired by Bruno Vandermeulen, Bird & Bird, Brussels (B)
– Markku Rajala, Pegasor and member
LES Scandinavia
09h10 Introduction of participants
09h30 Intellectual property overview: obtaining protection
and scope of protection
Wouter Pors, Bird & Bird, The Hague (NL)
10h15 Valuation of intellectual property
Dirk Groenewegen, Glycostem Therapeutics Board of Directors, Bilthoven (NL)
11h00 Coffee/tea break
11h30 Due diligence: preparing to enter into a licence agreement
Frank Landolt, Ablynx, Gent-Zwijnaarde (B)
12h15 The impact of EU competition law on intellectual property licences
Yves Botteman, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Brussels (B)
“The research institutes of Wageningen
UR (University & Research Center) have
a close link with industry and are contributing significantly to the quality of
life. One of the very important means
to bring value to knowledge is licensing
IP. The LES Benelux Licensing Course
gave me additional valuable insight in
how to cope with several technicalities
on this topic. Very knowledgeable and
good trainers. Great content!”
– Frans Pingen, Wageningen UR and member
LES Benelux
13h00 Lunch
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Negotiation case study
This module has been created by Allen Norris to provide practical insights into negotiating
a license agreement. It comprises an in depth workshop during which delegates will have
the opportunity to experience and resolve a realistic IP situation. Delegates will be split into
groups to facilitate interaction as actors of the negotiation and the session will be moderated
by experienced IP professionals William Bird of Patentive and Peter Burö of SKF.
Inge Basteleurs studied law, specializing in international commercial and corporate law, and managerial
economics at the universities of Leuven (Belgium) and
London (UCL, UK). She went into private practise (1995
- end 1999), working for the law firm of De Bandt, van
Hecke & Lagae (Linklaters) in Brussels and London as a
corporate, transactional solicitor. She then joined the
agricultural biotechnology company, Plant Genetic
Systems NV (now Bayer Bioscience NV) which included
extensive secondments to the US and Asia She there
had the opportunity to practice her licensing and
negotiating skills, in a series of patent litigation licenses and settlements, divestments and acquisitions (1999
– 2006). Inge joined UCB SA, a Belgian based multinational biopharma company, where she became responsible for the legal support to the emerging markets, to
Research and to Business Development which included
frequent travel to Asia and the Middle East. She later
became Secretary General of UCB SA. She recently
joined Biocartis NV as General Counsel (as representative of Calexin BVBA) – heading the legal and IP
department - and member of the Executive Committee.
She is also Managing Director at Biocartis NV.
William Bird graduated (MA) from Cambridge University with an honours degree in natural sciences,
majoring in physics and is a chartered electrical and
electronics engineer. He has worked as an engineer
and manager in process and product development,
project management and marketing in multinational
companies from which he has obtained a wide experience of the requirements and functioning of an industrial company. During the last twenty seven years he
has worked as both a corporate and private-practice
patent and trademark attorney in Germany and Bel-
gium. He has expertise in both Common Law and codifi ed legal systems, in technology transfer licensing
and in the setting up of spin-off companies. He is a
European, British and German patent and trademark
attorney and is a tutor at CEIPI, has lectured for
Pharmed, VUB Brussels ICAB Photonics, Vlerick School
of Management, University of Leuven among others.
He is an accredited tutor of LES.
Yves Botteman is a senior associate in the Brussels
office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP. He focuses his practice
on competition law. Yves has represented global businesses before the European Commission and national
competition authorities in relation to antitrust violations (cartels) and merger control. He also advises clients on cartels and competition issues arising from
settlement agreements, patent and know-how licensing, distribution, R&D and other specialization agreements between undertakings. He assists clients in
implementing antitrust compliance programs. Yves
Botteman’s practice has given him substantial exposure to industries as diverse as construction materials,
automotive, industrial gases, medical devices, carton
packaging and enterprise software. Yves is a regular
speaker on the competition law aspects of IP licensing.
Prior to joining Steptoe, he was a senior associate at a
aw firm in Brussels.
Peter Burö is manager patents SKF B.V and a European Patent Attorney with a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering as a base. In 1989, after four years
with the Swedish Army, he entered the IP world as an
Examiner at the European Patent Office in Rijswijk,
the Netherlands. After five years at the EPO it was
time for private practice in Gothenburg, Sweden with
Albihns and Cegumark for a total of nine years. He
then joined AB Volvo in 2003 to continue his IP career
in industry, where he among other things created a
proper IP function in the US. For the past nine years
his location has been at SKF B.V. in Nieuwegein, the
Netherlands where he created a full service patent
department and also created an IP function in China
and a full service patent department in India. Licensing is playing a more and more important role for SKF,
and Peter has thus been a LES Benelux member since
2008 and an auditor for the past two years. Peter will
become a board member of LES Benelux from 2015 on.
Dirk Groenewegen has a master’s degree in chemistry at the University of Technology of Delft and a PhD
in microbiology at the University of Hamburg. He
started as private consultant and managing director
of Intellectual Property Development BV in 1992 which
company is specialised in business development and
commercialisation of intellectual property. Dirk has a
broad experience in identifying useful innovations and
protection of intellectual property, negotiating and
concluding licence contracts on an international scale.
He had previous appointments as development manager with Sterling Winthrop Pharma in Germany, Unilever in the Netherlands and as senior consultant
license on mediation and brokerage with Berenschot
PTO in the Netherlands. At the moment Dirk is executive managing director of Glycostem Therapeutics BV,
a Netherlands based start-up company for stem cell
therapy.
Jürgen Hassa is an European Patent Attorney at UCB,
Brussels. Belgium. Following education in Germany
and France culminating in a PhD in organic chemistry
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14h00 Negotiation case study – part I
William Bird and Peter Burö
15h30 Coffee/tea break
16h00 Negotiation case study – part II
17h30 Mini break
17h45 Negotiation case study – part III
“The course was accompanied by a
really good team with profound
knowledge. Especially helpful was the
good introduction and supporting
materials around term sheets, as a
basic instrument for licence contract
negotiation.”
– Gerhard Stelzer, Tecnet Equity Nö and
member LES Austria
18h30 Evaluation day 1
19h00 Aperitifs and dinner
Tuesday, 18 November 2014 – Day 2
License Drafting Workshop
This module has been created for a more detailed basic insight into the construction of a license agreement.
It comprises an in depth workshop exploring the anatomy of a license agreement, section by section, and providing practical advice on how to draft a successful agreement. Delegates will be split into two groups to facilitate
interaction. Each group will be coached by experienced transactional lawyers, namely Inge Basteleurs (Calexin),
Jürgen Hassa (UCB), Pieter Wyckmans (Quinz) and Jurriaan Jansen (Freshfields).
09h00 Licence drafting workshop – part I
11h00 Coffee/tea break
11h15 Licence drafting workshop – part II
12h45 Lunch
14h00 Licence drafting workshop – part III
16h00 Summary day 2 and evaluation of the course
16h30 Networking drinks and end of course
obtained in December 1993, Dr Hassa joined the private practice of E. Blum & Co. Patentanwälte VSP
(Zurich, Switzerland) with focus on chemistry related
inventions. In 1999 Jürgen Hassa qualified as European
Patent Attorney and moved to Serono International
S.A.(Geneva; Switzerland) where he rose to Director,
Corporate IP Department; head of group organic chemistry; pharmaceutical formulations. Since January
2006 Jürgen Hassa has been with UCB Pharma S.A.
(Brussels; Belgium) as Associate General Patent Counsel, Corporate IP Department. In addition to numerous
presentations at conferences Jürgen Hassa has since
2001 been a co-tutor in the preparatory course for the
EQE (PatSkills) headed by Brian CRONIN in Geneva and
from 2002-5 was a CEIPI Tutor for Patent Law at the
EPFL Lausanne.
Jurriaan Jansen joined the Amsterdam office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as an associate in 2006. Jurriaan works in the Amsterdam IP/IT practice and
focuses on licensing of IP rights (including software),
data protection, outsourcing, IP/IT transactional work
(including transitional services agreements), distribution and agency agreements, e-commerce, and strategic copyright and trademark issues (transactional and
contentious). Jurriaan is a member of LES Benelux, the
Dutch Association for Copyright (Vereniging voor
Auteursrecht) and BMM and regularly teaches and lectures on licensing and data protection. Jurriaan speaks
Dutch, English and German.
Frank Landolt is a Dutch (1994) and European (1995)
patent attorney and a licensing lawyer. After studying
chemistry (M.Sc., 1990) and law (M.Sc., 1992) at Leiden
University, he worked for almost ten years at the pri-
vate practice firms of Polak and Charlouis (now EP&C)
and Nederlandsch Octrooibureau in the Netherlands,
where his clients included major pharmaceutical companies as well as biotech firms and research institutions. Prior to joining Ablynx as IP and legal counsel in
2004, he worked for 4 years as director of IP and legal
counsel at Devgen N.V. Frank is a member of EPI, the
Dutch Association of Patent Attorneys, LES and
L’institut des Juristes d’Entreprise, and holds an M.Sc.
in business law from the University of Antwerp (2006)
and and board member of LES Benelux.
Wouter Pors is head of the IP group of Bird & Bird in
The Hague. Before studying law, he studied architecture and building construction for several years. After
having done research at the Tilburg University Law
Faculty from 1986 until 1989, he was admitted to the
bar in 1989, specializing in IP. His main focus is on
patent litigation, which allows for a blend of legal and
technological innovations. He handles a wide range of
patent disputes, varying from mechanical issues
through software and business method patents to biotech disputes. Wouter has represented major electronics, biotech and pharmaceutical companies in international patent litigation. In addition, Wouter is also
involved in quite a lot of trade mark and copyright litigation. He is also a Dutch Supreme Court litigator and
has handled cases before Benelux Court of Justice.
Bruno Vandermeulen is a Belgian IP litigation lawyer, practicing intellectual property law in Brussels
since 1990. Bruno is a partner and head of the intellectual property department of the Brussels officeof Bird
& Bird. Bruno graduated from the Catholic University
of Louvain in 1988 and holds a Master of Laws degree
(LL.M) from the University of Georgia. Bruno has experience in all types of intellectual property litigation
and has obtained various published case law decisions
in patents, trade marks, design right and copyright.
Bruno has acquired unique experience in the Belgian
cross-border patent litigation disputes and has published extensively about this subject. Bruno focuses his
practice on drafting and egotiation license agreements, conducting intellectual property due diligences,
litigating patents and trade marks, and advising clients on cross-border litigation strategies in Belgium
and Europe. Bruno is past President and Honorary
Member of LES Benelux. Bruno is also a member of the
Belgian AIPPI and the Belgian Group of the International League of Competition Law (LIDC). Bruno is an arbitrator with the Belgian domain name dispute resolution center Cepani. He is also a member of the editorial
board with the Belgian legal journal “Intellectuele
rechten/Droits Intellectuels” (IRDI).
Pieter Wyckmans is a member of the Brussels Bar
and co-founder of the recently incorporated law firm
QUINZ. He combines years of experience as an M&A
lawyer, with years of experience as in-house counsel of
multinationals active within the pharmaceutical and
chemical industry. His practice focuses on advising clients on national and international transactions (acquisitions, divestitures and reorganizations) and the
drafting and negotiation of manufacturing contracts,
supply chain contracts, licensing contracts and R&D
(consortium) agreements, in particular within the Life
Science industry.
FACTS AND DETAILS
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Dates
Accommodation
About the event
Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 November 2014.
Early registration on Sunday 16 November
2014
The organization has taken an option on
several single and double rooms in the Thon
Hotel EU at the rate of Euro 115,00-150,00 for
a single room per night and Euro 135,00170,00 for a double room per night
including breakfast but exclusive a city tax of
Euro 7,58 per room per night.
Please indicate on the registration form if
you want to make a hotel reservation and
add your credit card details (in print) to
guarantee the reservation.
This Licensing Course is organised by LES Benelux annually. LES members and postgraduate
students will enjoy a discount on the registration fee. The number of available places is limited; early registration is recommended. The
fee includes the documentation specifically
prepared for this course. The documentation
serves as a valuable reference source for your
day-to-day business.
Location
Thon Hotel EU, Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 75,
B-1040 Brussels. Phone +32 2 204 3911;
e-mail [email protected].
Program
Details of the program can be found in the
brochure. Up-to-date information can be
found on the web site of LES Benelux:
www.les-benelux.org. Day one will end with
drinks and a dinner at the hotel. Day two will
end with farewell drinks.
Participants
Please note that this course is open for LES
members and non-members worldwide.
However, from participants it is expected that
they have at least an academic background
(law, financial or technical).
Certificate and granting of
educational hours
At the end of the course the participants,
who attended the whole course and signed
the attendance lists correctly, will receive a
certificate with twelve educational hours to
prove their participation at this course.
Registration fee
LES members Euro 475,00
Non-members Euro 525,00
Post-graduate students Euro 475,00
Cancellations
LES Benelux must be informed of any cancellation in writing (fax or e-mail). For cancellations received before 17 October 2014,
the registration fee, minus Euro 50,00 administrative costs, will be reimbursed.
Cancellations received on or after 17 October 2014 will be fully charged. In case of ‘noshow’ also one night will be charged in case a
hotel reservation in the participant’s name
has been made.
Please note
The organisation cannot accept any responsibility for personal accidents or damage to private property of the participants.
About the location
The Ton Hotel EU is situated in the European
Quarter of Brussels, Thon Hotel EU is an ideal
starting point for both business and leisure
travellers: most of the European Institutions
are within easy walking distance and the historical city centre is also but a stone’s throw
away.
Method of payment
Payment to ABN AMRO bank, Wijk bij
Duurstede, account NL72ABNA 0408004738
(BIC ABNANL2A) in the name of LES Benelux,
quoting Licensing Course 2014 and the name
of the participant, or by Credit card (AMEX,
Visa, Mastercard).
Please complete all details in print on the
registration form.
* Registration and payment before 26 September 2014 gives a discount of Euro 50,00.
The fee includes the course documentation,
coffee and tea during the breaks, two lunches
and a dinner on 17 November. No discount can
be given when one or more of these functions
cannot be attended.
LES Benelux is a non-profit organization registered under Dutch Law (KvK 40538710) and
not liable to VAT.
Please note that for non-members from one of
the Benelux or Scandinavian countries, the fee
also includes a reduction on membership of
LES Benelux or LES Scandinavia for the year
2015 of Euro 50,00. Your participation will
be confirmed in writing upon receipt of the
registration fee.
Directions
See www.thonhotels.com/hotels/countrys/belgium/brussels/thon-hotel-eu/ for directions by
bike, car, metro, train and plane.
Parking
Parking is available at the underground
parking garage (Vinci Park) with 200 spaces.
Guests of the hotel paying at the reception
will benefit from a preferential rate of Euro
25,00 a day (Euro 12,50 during weekend). The
car park is equipped with 4 disabled people
car space.
For more information about registration,
please e-mail: [email protected].
Up-to-date information and programme
details are also available on the internet at:
www.les-benelux.org.
Sponsoring
The LES Benelux Licensing Course 2014 is
organized with the support of Stichting Congres LES Benelux.
About LES
LES, the Licensing Executives Society, is a business-oriented association and its members
include business executives, scientists, engineers, academicians, lawyers, patent and
trademark attorneys, government officials
and others from large, medium and small
companies, independent firms, universities
and R&D organisations, government organisations and consulting firms. This membership
is a unique blend of business, technical and
legal professionals, and thus is different from
all other professional associations. LES was
founded in 1965 in the USA and has to date 32
societies covering more than 95 countries with
11.000 members world-wide. Each national or
regional society is composed of men and
women who have an interest in the transfer
of technology, or licensing of intellectual property rights - from technical knowhow and patented inventions to software, copyright and
trade marks. LES Benelux, one of the national
and regional societies, was formed in 1975 and
has to date over 400 members.