EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION CLOSES

10 February 2012

INTERNATIONAL DELEGATES MEETING

30 March - 1 April 2012

LESI ANNUAL CONFERENCE

1 - 4 April 2012

Programme

Please note that this programme is subject to change.

For more information on each workshop please download the Workshop Information document.

 

Sunday 1 April

1500 - 1900

Registration Desk Open

1600 - 1700

Powhiri / Opening Ceremony and Welcome Addresses

1700 - 1800

Keynote Speaker
An Optimist's Tour of the Future
Mark Stevenson

1800 - 1930

Welcome Reception

 

Monday 2 April

0900 - 1000

Keynote Speaker
A New Competitive Economy with Opportunities for Entrepreneurs to go Beyond Globalisation
Gunter Pauli

1000 - 1015

Global Technology Impact Forum (GTIF): Geneva Conference Update and Results

1015 - 1115

Keynote Speaker
Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? (with acknowledgement to TS Eliot from his poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock')
Nick Gerritsen

1115 - 1145

Morning Tea
Sponsored by Thomson Reuters

1145 - 1315

University, Government and University Transactions
Chair: Kathleen Denis

Novel Industry-Academia Collaborations for Innovative Medicines
Daniel Grant, Julian Clark, Shane Shih

Technical Education
Chair: Yorikatsu Hohokabe

Practical Implication of the Patent Law Reforms in the U.S., Japan, Australia/New Zealand and Europe PART 1
Richard D. Kelly, Sumiko Kobayashi, Mark Horsburgh, Thorsten Bausch, Jan Carl Zillies

Economic Development

Chair: Simon Rowell

A New Competitive Economy - a follow up discussion to Keynote
Gunter Pauli

Technical Education
Chair: Patricia Bunye

Not your Textbook Approach to Doing Business in Asia
Ichiro Nakatomi, Chris Shaowei, Russell Boltwood

Economic Development
Chair: Stephanie von Gavel

Global Technology Impact Forum (GTIF) Workshop 1: Tech Transfer for Humanitarian Purpose
James Malackowski, Ferdinand Negre, Hector Chagoya

1315 - 1415

Lunch

1415 - 1545

Industry-Academia-Government Tech Transfer
Chair: Derek Minihane

Worldwide Company - University Collaborations
Mark Abourizk, Kevin Cullen, Charles Hoy Ng, Rob McInnes

Technical Education
Chair: Yorikatsu Hohokabe

Practical Implication of the Patent Law Reforms in the U.S., Japan, Australia/New Zealand and Europe PART 2
Richard D. Kelly, Sumiko Kobayashi, Mark Horsburgh, Thorsten Bausch, Jan Carl Zillies

Technical Education
Chair: Mark Hargreaves

Top Ten Mistakes Commonly Made When Drafting a License Agreement
Russell Levine

Life Sciences
Chair: Jan Tennent

Opportunities and Challenges in Asia: Making Deals in the Life Sciences Industry
Ningling Wang, Ichiro Nakatomi

Proudly Sponsored by Finnegans

Technical Education
Chair: John Stonier

Early Stage Patent Litigation in Germany - Utility Models as a Helpful Weapon
Heinz Goddar

Intellectual Property - Addressing the International Challenges in view of Filing Numbers, Worldwide Litigation, Trading IP and Professional Negotiation
Frank Zacharias

1545 - 1615

Afternoon Tea

1615 - 1745

Chairs: Sumiko Kobayashi

LESI Committee Open Meeting: Chemicals, Energy, Environments and Materials

Chair: Robert Gruetzmacher

LESI Americas Open Meeting: Exploring the Australia-Chile Free Trade Agreement
Gail Fulton, Edwina Lewis, Allan Jarry

Chair: Roberto Dini

LES Patent and Technology Licensing Committee Open Meeting: Past and Future Activities

Chair: Russell Boltwood

LESI Committee Open Meeting: Electronics, IT and Telecommuni-
cations

Chair: Chris Shaowei

Consumer Products Committee and LES China: Challenges of Management of Patent Portfolio during the Transition Period
Fuller Li, Yuji Ohmagari, Tsukasa Ikegami

1830 - 2230

Dinner

 

Tuesday 3 April

0900 - 1000

Keynote Speaker
The Food Crisis
Mike Whelan, CSIRO

1000 - 1100

Keynote Speaker
Building a Sustainable Ethical Global Economy
Sir Ray Avery, Medicine Mondiale

1100 - 1130

Morning Tea

1130 - 1300

Clean Technology
Chair: Jonathan Agmon

How Green is your Patent System?
Mitch Charness, Marek Lzaewski, Henry Ward

Clean Technology
Chair: Alberto Ferraloro

Clean Tech (now or never?) - Extraordinary Opportunity or Misery
Nick Gerritsen

Technical Education
Chair: Yorikatsu Hohokabe

The Latest Case-Decisions Affecting Patent Licensing
Jacob Doughty, Dirk Schuessler-Langeheine, Eiichiro Kubota

Economic Development / Industry-Academia-Government tech transfer
Chair: Marc Sedam

Structuring a New Innovation Management Program
Ashley Stevens

1300 - 1430

Lunch

1430 - 1530

Keynote Speaker
Global Challenges for Intellectual Property and Licensing
Francis Gurry, WIPO

1900 onwards

Gala Dinner

 

Wednesday 4 April

0900 - 1000

Brand Valuation
Chair: Philip Heuzenroeder

Brand Valuation and the Legal Aspects of ISO 10668
Adam Liberman, Tim Heberden

Patents
Chair: Roberto Dini

PTL Committee: Patents, Patent pools, Patent Trolls, Patent Aggregators: different business model. Which one is the best?"
Roberto Dini, Karel Van Lelyveld, Daniel Papst

Funding
Chair: Tim Jones

Panel Discussion: Venture Capital Funding Issues
Brent Ogilvie, Craig Styris, Rudi Bublitz

Trademarks
Chair: Jeff Bergmann

Open TM Committee Meeting: Plain Packaging: Where does the road take us?
Johan Du Preez, Mark Davison

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Latin America
Chair: Robert R Gruetzmacher

LES Americas Committee Open Meeting: Exploring the Australia-Chile Free Trade Agreement Candida Caffe, Hector Chagoya, Martha Laura Lopez Orue, Allan Jarry

1000 - 1030

Morning Tea

1030 - 1200

Social Entrepreneurship
Chair: Stephanie von Gavel

What you need to know about licensing, Intellectual Property (IP) and Intellectual Assets (IA) to successfully roll out Your Social Enterprise
Christi Mitchell, Elizabeth McNabb

Technical Education
Chair: Roberto Dini

Enforcing and litigating patents related to standardized technologies
Mark Horsburgh, Johannes Bukow, John Paul

Clean Technology
Chair: Jan Tennent

The Lanzatech Story: Creating Something from Nothing
Jan Ng

YMC Workshop
Chair: Omer Hiziroglu

Legally blond: Young and driven, making a place in the business of IP, Globally
Omer Hiziroglu, Grainne Smith

Economic Development

Creating massive new consumers by a consortium of corporate or business leaders while eradicating global poverty
Kewal K. Likhyani

1200 - 1300

Lunch

1300 - 1430

Economic Development/ Industry-Academia- Government Tech Transfer Workshop

Best Practices in Innovation Management: Deep Industry - University - Government Engagement leading to local Economic Development and benefit of the Society
Janne Virtapohja

Environment and Resources
Chair: Mark Pullen

Mining and Energy Infrastructure Licensing Strategies
Malcolm Engel, Jeffrey S. Whittle

Clean Technology Workshop

Cleantech Innovation in China
Ray Tettman, Sean Simpson, Ningling Wang

Resources and Environment / Cleantech
Chair: Di Glenn

Sustainable manufacturing: the impact of industrial chemicals and plastics from renewable feedstocks
Cameron Begley, Dianne Glen, Elspeth MacRae, Gregory Moss-Smith

Health and Life Sciences
Chair: Chid S. Iyer

Compulsory Licensing under WTO and Doha Declaration: A Global Perspective and how to Obtain a Licence for Providing Essential Medicines to Governments in need
Mei-Hsin Wang, Rodney De Boos, Michael Dzwonczyk, Varadachari Lakshmikumaran

1430 - 1500

Afternoon Tea

1500 - 1600

Keynote Speaker
The Great Race: Who is going to Capitalise and win in the Post-Carbon World?
Ben McNeil

1600 - 1630

Closing Ceremony