WELCOME ADDRESS

M. Christophe Geiger

Professeur à l’Université de Strasbourg et Directeur général du CEIPI. Professor, Director General and Director of the Research Department of the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) at the University of Strasbourg (France) Christophe Geiger is Professor of Law, Director General and Director of the Research Department of the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) at the University of Strasbourg (France). In addition, he is affiliated senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich (Germany) as well as Spangenberg Fellow at the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology & the Arts, Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland (US), and has been invited to teach as visiting professor in several universities. He specializes in national, European, international and comparative intellectual property law, has drafted reports for the European institutions and acts as external expert for the European Parliament and the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM). He is also General Editor of the Collection of the CEIPI published by LexisNexis, co-editor of the EIPIN series published by Edward Elgar, co-editor of the CEIPI-ICTSD Publication Series on “Global Perspectives and Challenges for the Intellectual Property System” and member of the editorial board of several journals on IP law. He has published numerous articles as well as authored and edited many volumes in this field, the most recent being “Criminal Enforcement of Intellectual Property: A Handbook of Contemporary Research” (2012), “Constructing European Intellectual Property: Achievements and New Perspectives” (2013), “Research Handbook on Human Rights and Intellectual Property” (2015) with Edward Elgar, and “What Patent Law for the European Union?” (2013), “The Contribution of Case Law to the Construction of Intellectual Property in Europe” (2013, in French); “Intellectual Property Law in a Globalized World” (with Caroline Rodà, 2014), with LexisNexis.

M. Xavier Seuba

M. Julien Pénin

Professor, BETA, University of Strasbourg

M. Peter Bittner

I3PM President

KEYNOTE LECTURE Nº 1

M. Keith Maskus

Keith Maskus Chief Economist for United States State Department, Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction and Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado, Boulder

PREEMPTION, ABSTRACT IDEAS AND DIGITALISATION

M. Sean O’Connor

Boeing International Professor, Director, Center for Advanced Study & Research on Innovation Policy (CASRIP), University of Washington School of Law

THE BURDEN OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE AGE OF DATA SCIENCE

M. Gaetan Rassenfosse

Assistant Professor, Holder of the Chair on Innovation and Intellectual Property Policy, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

INFLUENCES OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION ON FREEDOM TO OPERATE PROCESSES IN THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES

Mme Alissa Zeller

Vice President Global Intellectual Property BASF

PATENT LANDSCAPING AND THE ROLE OF INFORMATION ON INVENTORS

M. Francesco Lissoni

Professor of Economics at Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA), University of Bordeaux

KEYNOTE LECTURE Nº 2

M. Reto Hilty

Professor, Director, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

THE INTERFACE BETWEEN BIG DATA, IP AND COMPETITION IN THE HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES

M. Timo Minssen

Professor, Centre for Information and Innovation Law, University of Copenhaguen

BIG DATA ANALYTICS IN THE PATENT WORLD

Mme Aida Dolotbaeva

Legal Officer, Patent Law Division, WIPO

COPYRIGHT AND BIG DATA - A VIEW FROM THE INDUSTRY

M. Cedric Manara

DIGITALIZATION – THE SPEEDY CHANGE OF ABB AND HOW IP MANAGEMENT IS AFFECTED

Mme Claudia Jamin

Group Vice President, Head IP Operations Europe, ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd

BIG DATA: IP CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES, A VIEW FROM INDUSTRY

M. Emmanuel de Cuenca

Senior European Patent Attorney, Air Liquide

KEYNOTE LECTURE Nº 3

M. Bowman Heiden

Deputy Director, Center for Intellectual Property, University of Gothenbourg

THE EPO APPROACH TO INDUSTRY 4.0 AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS

M. Yann Ménière

Professor or Economics MINES ParisTech, Chief Economist, EPO

PATENTS AND SOFTWARE: CHANGING MARKETS, STRATEGIES AND ACTORS

Mme Catalina Martínez

Research Fellow at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

CREATIVE COMPUTERS AND THE FUTURE OF PATENT LAW

M. Ryan Abbott

Professor of Law and Health Sciences, University of Surrey

HOW TO GET TO SUCCESSFUL VALUE CAPTURING AND EXPLOITATION OF DIGITAL IP?

Mme Stephanie van Wermeskerken

Head of Intellectual Property Counseling, Philips

CLOSING

M. Alexander J. Wurzer,

Adjunct-Professor at CEIPI, Director of studies of the Master in IP Law and Management of CEIPI, Director of St einbeis Transfer Institute Intellectual Property Management