3Oct
Congress

Tuesday 3 October

CIPA Congress 2023

When and where

Date and time

Start: Tuesday 3 October 2023, 08:30 AM

End: Tuesday 3 October 2023, 07:00 PM

Location

Hilton Cambridge City Centre, 20 Downing Street, CB2 3DT

Event Overview

Important Note: CIPA Congress is now fully booked. If you would like to be added to the waiting list, please email [email protected]

It’s back – a live in-person CIPA Congress! After unexpectedly having to cancel last year’s event, we are excited to welcome you to the Hilton Cambridge City Centre on 3 October 2023 for this year’s CIPA Congress. Congress will be followed by the CIPA Annual Dinner, which is bookable separately from Congress itself.

The Committee are putting together a stimulating programme, including high-profile key-note speakers and topical panel discussions in which our members share their expertise and views. We’ve had three years now without an in-person gathering, so we hope you will be able to attend both events and are really looking forward to seeing you.

Alexandra Seymour-Pierce Chair, CIPA Congress Committee.

 

Early bird Member: £299.00 (Inc. VAT)

Member: £385.00 (Inc. VAT)

 

Early bird Non-Member: £ 399.00 (Inc. VAT)

Non-member: £512.00 (Inc. VAT)

 

Helpful Information

There are a limited number of rooms available at the Hilton Hotel, Cambridge at a preferential rate for delegates of the conference or dinner. For more information or to reserve a room, please contact [email protected]

CIPA Annual Dinner

The annual dinner will follow the conference at 7pm. A great opportunity to continue networking over a 3 course meal and drinks reception. There are limited places available so please book at your earliest convenience.

Visit the annual dinner booking page for more information or to book directly your place.

 

 

 

***Programme subject to change.***

Audience

Members, Non Members, All

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Programme & Speakers

  • 8:30 - 9:15 - Registration and Refreshments
  • 9:15 - 9:25 - Opening by CIPA President
    Speakers
    Daniel Chew, CIPA President, Haseltine Lake Kempner LLP

    Daniel Chew, CIPA President, Haseltine Lake Kempner LLP

    As well as being one of the industry’s top mobile and communications technologies experts, Daniel is the driving force behind HLK’s success in Asia. Being a fluent Mandarin speaker and frequent visitor to Asia, Daniel has taken the role of Head of Asia Group and led the firm’s  presence in Asia from strength to strength. It is largely thanks to Daniel’s hard work and strategic thinking that HLK now represents the largest EPO filer in Taiwan and a number of top ten EPO filers in China. Daniel enjoys visiting clients and attending events, as he finds that this is the best way for him to listen to and fully understand each of his client’s needs in order to provide them global strategic IP advice.

    On a higher level, Daniel has been involved in joint missions with patent offices in promoting the IP profession and IP protection in Europe through various overseas visits to Asian countries as well as the USA. In the last couple of years, Daniel also led the Asia Group and hosted delegations from the Shanghai Pudong New Area IP Administration in their visits to Germany and the UK. More significantly, Daniel was invited to be the keynote speaker at an Intellectual Property International Forum which was part of China’s First International Import Expo.

    Daniel has been an active member of the CIPA Council for the last three years and has been a member of CIPA’s International Liaison Committee, chairing the China Working Group, for a number of years.  A leading European Patent Attorney with nearly 20 years’ experience in private practice, Daniel is also recognised as a future leader of the IP profession in the UK. In January 2022, he was appointed Vice-President of CIPA, and as President with effect from 1 January 2023.

  • 9:25 - 9:50 - Keynote speech: Digital transformation at the EPO
    Speakers
    Steve Rowan, EPO Vice-President

    Steve Rowan, EPO Vice-President

    Stephen Rowan joined the EPO in January 2019 as Vice-President for DG1 – Patent Grant Process. He is responsible for the entire Patent Grant Process, from the receiving of applications up to and including opposition and the grant of the patent. This area also includes Quality and Business and User Services.

    Located in The Hague, Steve Rowan is Site Manager for the branch of the EPO, which is the largest international organisation in the Netherlands.
    Before joining the EPO, Stephen Rowan held a number of senior leadership roles in the Intellectual Property Office of the United Kingdom. These included the position of Director of Registered Rights, responsible for the end to end processing of patent, trade mark and design applications and the associated tribunal functions.

    Stephen Rowan joined the UK IPO in March 1991 and, in addition to his operational roles, sat as a Principal Hearing Officer and worked on a range of policy issues covering industrial property and copyright. He was Head of the UK Delegation to the Beijing and Marrakesh Diplomatic Conferences and was seconded to the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit (2004) and HM Treasury (2006) – working on the Gowers Review of IP.

    He has an LLB (Hons) from the University of the West of England.

  • 9:50 - 10:50 - Use of AI in the IP Industry
    Speakers
    Frances Wilding, Haseltine Lake Kempner

    Frances Wilding, Haseltine Lake Kempner

    Partner and AI Team Lead at Haseltine Lake Kempner

    Frances started her career as a Patent Examiner at the EPO in Munich, returning after 8 years to the UK, where she qualified as a UK and European patent attorney and has worked in private practice ever since, and as a partner at Haseltine Lake (now Haseltine Lake Kempner) since 2005.

    At Haseltine Lake Kempner, Frances has worked across a broad variety of fields,  and her practice has increasingly moved to simulation systems, algorithms, data centres and the cloud, design and application of neural networks, bioinformatics, and business and internet-based inventions. Frances is active In writing articles around patents and AI and regularly appears in seminars to explain and promote patenting AI.

    Steve Rowan, EPO Vice-President

    Steve Rowan, EPO Vice-President

    Stephen Rowan joined the EPO in January 2019 as Vice-President for DG1 – Patent Grant Process. He is responsible for the entire Patent Grant Process, from the receiving of applications up to and including opposition and the grant of the patent. This area also includes Quality and Business and User Services.

    Located in The Hague, Steve Rowan is Site Manager for the branch of the EPO, which is the largest international organisation in the Netherlands.
    Before joining the EPO, Stephen Rowan held a number of senior leadership roles in the Intellectual Property Office of the United Kingdom. These included the position of Director of Registered Rights, responsible for the end to end processing of patent, trade mark and design applications and the associated tribunal functions.

    Stephen Rowan joined the UK IPO in March 1991 and, in addition to his operational roles, sat as a Principal Hearing Officer and worked on a range of policy issues covering industrial property and copyright. He was Head of the UK Delegation to the Beijing and Marrakesh Diplomatic Conferences and was seconded to the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit (2004) and HM Treasury (2006) – working on the Gowers Review of IP.

    He has an LLB (Hons) from the University of the West of England.

    Eunjin Chiarella, IBM CHQ

    Eunjin Chiarella, IBM CHQ

    Eunjin Chiarella (Ellie) is a part-qualified Patent Attorney and Master Inventor at IBM UK, with a background in Physics and software engineering.

    Before joining the IP profession, she was a researcher in the IBM Research Emerging Technology group. During this time, she published multiple papers and journal publications specialising in Explainable AI, as well as being an inventor on 25+ granted patents.

    Ellie is currently the In-house representative for the CIPA Informals committee.

    Noam Shemtov, Queen Mary University of London

    Noam Shemtov, Queen Mary University of London

    Professor Noam Shemtov joined the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) in Queen Mary – University of London in September 2009 as a lecturer in Intellectual Property and technology Law. He is currently a Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law at CCLS. He lectures in areas of intellectual property, Technology and creative industries and his research interests are also focused in these fields.

    Noam has led research projects and studies funded by UK Research Councils and by industry, national, supranational and commercial organizations, such as AHRC, CISAC, Microsoft, WIPO, European Patent Office, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the European Space Agency.

    Noam also holds visiting appointments by Spanish French and Dutch universities, where he lectures regularly in areas pertaining to intellectual property, technology and creative industries. He has been recently chosen by the European Patent Office to feature on their prestigious list of 50 celebrated international experts in the field of sustainable innovation throughout the years. Noam is a qualified solicitor both in the UK and in Israel.

  • 10:50 - 11:20- Refreshment break
  • 11:20- 11:50 - Spin out and how IP was impacted
    Speakers
    Kate Kirk

    Kate Kirk

    The Cambridge Phenomenon: A Tale of Two Pubs

    Kate Kirk has been researching and writing about the entrepreneurial ecosystem known as the Cambridge Phenomenon since she became involved with the Cambridge Enterprise Conference in 2001. She has spoken widely on the Cambridge Phenomenon, to audiences ranging from the T20 meetings in Hangzhou to the Economist Innovation Summit in Berlin. Her two books, The Cambridge Phenomenon: 50 Years of Innovation and Enterprise and The Cambridge Phenomenon: Global Impact, are required reading for anyone wanting to know more about this small city that punches way above its weight. Her next book, 7 Secrets of Great Leaders, will be published by Pearson in Spring 2024.

  • 11:50 - 12:50 - Research culture - Clusters, IP commercialisation / valuation, impact of IP on strategy
    Speakers
    Chris Thornham, Taylor Wessing

    Chris Thornham, Taylor Wessing

    Chris is an award-winning lawyer specialising in patents and technical disputes. He works with clients across the life sciences, engineering, and telecoms sectors.
    He advises clients on freedom to operate, product launch, patent litigation, and licensing strategies including FRAND licence disputes.
    He’s acted in over 20 English patent trials and appeals, as well as numerous arbitration cases.

    Chris advises on strategy and the coordination of multi-jurisdictional patent advice and litigation. He helps clients win infringement/validity disputes and to navigate through the remedies and relief available including interim and final injunctions, financial compensation claims, destruction of infringing products, modification of products, court declarations, publicity orders and costs awards.
    Chris has a strong background in natural sciences and multi-jurisdictional patent disputes. Before practising law, Chris graduated with a degree in natural sciences, specialising in experimental physics. In his early career, he also gained experience working in Washington DC and California.
    He speaks and writes regularly on patent issues.

    Dr. Liora Bogin, Yeda Technology Transfer

    Dr. Liora Bogin, Yeda Technology Transfer

    Dr. Liora Bogin holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science and is a registered Israeli Patent Attorney since 2004. Prior to becoming Yeda’s Chief IP Officer, Liora was a partner at Webb & Co. and at Fisher-Friedman IP Group and worked closely with inventors and IP managers in drafting, prosecuting, and evaluating IP primarily in the field of Biotechnology.

    Liora supervises the development of Yeda’s patent portfolio, works closely with the Business Directors at Yeda, and advises on IP-wide quality and filing strategies to maximize the value of the IP in support of the commercialization activities.

    Stephanie Adamany, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

    Stephanie Adamany, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

    Stephanie Adamany serves as General Counsel of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), a nonprofit, mission-driven organization that has supported scientific research within the UW–Madison community for more than 90 years. WARF partners with university researchers to advance and commercialize their discoveries through IP protection and licensing and provides grants back to UW–Madison to continue the cycle of innovation. Adamany has two decades of legal experience focused on patent, trademark, copyright, with an emphasis on IP transactions and high stakes patent litigation, prosecution, and corporate matters. Prior to joining WARF in 2006, she worked as an intellectual property litigation associate at Robins Kaplan LLP and Kinney and Lange P.A. in Minneapolis. She holds a J.D. from UW–Madison, an M.S. in biological science from Florida Atlantic University and a B.S. in biology from the University of Minnesota and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent Office.

    Diarmuid O’Brien, University of Cambridge

    Diarmuid O’Brien, University of Cambridge

    Diarmuid comes to Cambridge Enterprise from his role as Chief Innovation & Enterprise Officer at Trinity College Dublin, where he had overall responsibility for the development and enhancement of the college’s innovation and enterprise strategy.

    Prior to this, Diarmuid was Director of Trinity Research and Innovation with responsibility for both the Research Development Office and the Office of Corporate Partnership and Knowledge Exchange. In that role he led the establishment of the University Bridge venture fund, which is ranked in the world’s top five collaborative university funds, according to Global University Venturing.

    While at Trinity, Diarmuid was also the Executive Director of CRANN, an internationally recognised centre of excellence for nanotechnology and materials science research.

    He has held senior management roles in several university-founded start-up companies, including NTera, Xoliox, and Deerac Fluidics.

    Diarmuid was a Research Fellow at Princeton University. He has a PhD in Physics from the University of Sheffield and a degree in Materials Science from Trinity College Dublin. He joined Cambridge Enterprise in August 2021.

  • 12:50 - 14:20 - Lunch
  • 14:20 - 15:00 - CPTPP: An insiders views
    Speakers
    Lee Davies, Chief Executive, CIPA

    Lee Davies, Chief Executive, CIPA

    Lee Davies has been the Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) since February 2012. Prior to this, Lee was the Deputy Chief Executive of the Institute for Learning (IfL), the professional body for further education teachers. Lee’s professional background is in engineering (mechanical services) and further education teaching. Lee has experience of the governance of professional bodies, having served as the President of the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering (CIPHE) in 2011-12.
    Lee says that such a varied career, from apprentice plumber to CEO of CIPA, via organisations such as the Highbury College in Portsmouth, the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) and IfL, has left him a little confused about his professional identity. Lee now identifies as an ‘association leader’, although the concept of association leadership is, in Lee’s words, “woefully undervalued and little recognised in the UK”. Lee is a passionate advocate for the association sector and is President and Chair of the Institute of Association Leadership (IAL), where he leads the Chief Executives’ Forum.

    Dr Bobby Mukherjee, CIPA Vice President, BAE Systems plc

    Dr Bobby Mukherjee, CIPA Vice President, BAE Systems plc

    Dr Bobby Mukherjee, Chief Counsel, IP & Technology Law – BAE Systems plc and Past President (2012-2014) of the IP Federation. He is the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) Vice-President, President-elect as of 1 January 2024. He previously served and currently sits on CIPA Council, and chaired the CIPA Internal Governance Committee in its formative stage.

    Bobby is a qualified UK and European patent attorney with over 28 years’ experience of IP gained in private practice and at BAE Systems plc. He is currently the Head of IP (2009 -) at BAE Systems plc (a FTSE 30 company), which has one of the largest in-house IP teams in the UK. During Bobby’s IP Federation Presidential term, Bobby played a prominent role, on behalf of Industry, in actively engaging with the Parliamentary stages of the UK IP Bill 2013-2014. This resulted in the UK IP Act 2014, with a positive outcome for Industry. He currently sits on the IP Federation Council and until recently, chaired the IP Federation Trade Working Group. On behalf of the IP Federation, he gave evidence in January 2023 on the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) IP provisions to the influential House of Commons International Trade Select Committee. As a direct result of the IP Federation’s diligent work to which Bobby significantly contributed since 2018, the UK is acceding to CPTPP on terms which do not threaten European Patent Convention membership, and which promote international harmonisation of patent laws, another long-standing IP Federation goal. This is a successful outcome for UK plc, and the wider UK patent profession.

    Bobby’s career has mostly been spent in the physics field, obtaining and defending patent protection for new products, processes and services globally. He gained a first degree in Natural Sciences (specialising in Physics) from Cambridge University in 1990, and then a Doctorate Degree (D.Phil.) on High Temperature Superconductors from Oxford University in 1995. He has published various research papers in leading Scientific Journals during that time, and during his work experience at the National Physical Laboratory.

    Bobby has been named a Corporate IP Star by Managing Intellectual Property every year since 2015.

    He received the Legal 500 UK individual of the Year 2019 award for IP. He has been listed on the IAM Strategy 300: World’s leading IP Strategists (2022 and 2023).

    In his spare time, Bobby enjoys spending time with friends and family, travelling, and closely following cricket.

    Catriona Hammer, IP Consultant

    Catriona Hammer, IP Consultant

    Catriona is an IP Consultant that provides advice on IP Strategy, particularly in the Life Sciences and Medical Device fields. Catriona’s practice covers all types of IP and focuses on portfolio management and IP transactions plus contentious matters. She typically works as a consultant to firms providing legal services and particularly enjoyed working on complex international IP matters.

    Sarah Roberts-Favell, DBT

    Sarah Roberts-Favell, DBT

    Sarah is the Head of Patents and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions/Folklore (GRTKTCE/F) at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). Her IP journey started in the International Trade team at the IPO and she then moved across to DBT to lead the IP negotiations for the Australia and New Zealand Free Trade Agreements and then moved across to complete the CPTPP IP Chapter negotiations. Prior working at DBT Sarah undertook an overseas role on Ascension Island with the FCDO and held a number of other Civil Service postings

  • 15:00 - 16:00 - Plausibliy enabling for all? A review of recent case law
    Speakers
    Rose Hughes, AstraZeneca

    Rose Hughes, AstraZeneca

    Rose is a Patent Director at AstraZeneca, where she manages global IP strategy for large molecule and cell therapy programs across the pipeline. Rose also writes as “PatKat” for IPKat, one of Europe’s leading intellectual property and patent blogs. Rose previously worked in private practice and has a PhD in immunology from UCL.

    Sarah J. Rodriguez, Finnegan

    Sarah J. Rodriguez, Finnegan

    Sarah Rodriguez is qualified as a patent attorney in the United States, the United Kingdom, and in Europe. She works mainly on patent prosecution in electrical fields including circuit design, nanotechnology, semiconductor devices, medical devices, software applications, signal processing, mechanical structures, optical devices, and communications.

    James St.Ville, 8 New Square

    James St.Ville, 8 New Square

    James St.Ville KC is very experienced across patents, trademarks, copyright, designs, confidential information and parallel imports as well as IT, internet, database and software disputes.

    Chambers UK has described him as “well regarded for his attention to detail and commerciality”, “extremely intelligent, thoughtful, thorough, careful, very good on his feet and a real pleasure to work with.” “His preparation on every case is superb and detailed, and he has first-class drafting”.

    Before taking silk he was consistently recommended as a Leading Junior in Intellectual Property by Chambers UK and Information Technology by the Legal 500 and is a chartered engineer with substantial commercial experience of electronics, optical communications and engineering.  His patent work includes electronics, mechanical and medical devices, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and engineering disputes.  Before becoming a barrister he was leader of the Optical Communications Networks Team at GEC-Marconi Research.

    James is an author of Russell-Clarke and Howe on Industrial Designs (10th Edition, 2022) with Martin Howe KC and Ashton Chantrielle.  He has been instructed in the High Court, Patents Court, Technology and Construction Court, Court of Appeal, Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC), UK IPO, EU IPO (formerly OHIM), EPO, EU General Court and the High Court in Northern Ireland.

    Ian Jones, Gill Jennings & Every

    Ian Jones, Gill Jennings & Every

    Drawing on over a decade of experience, Ian advises pharmaceutical and industrial chemistry companies, as well as those in the biotechnology and medical devices sectors, on how to protect their innovation and leverage the value of their intellectual property.

    Working with a wide range of clients, Ian guides start-ups through the fundamentals of IP, helping them understand how IP can support their business. He assists spinouts and SMEs to establish and develop their IP portfolios, and delivers clear and actionable recommendations to multinational corporations. Ian’s commercial advice is supported by a wealth of experience in patent drafting and global prosecution, including the UK, Europe, the US and East Asia, as well as contentious matters at the European Patent Office and extensive due diligence expertise.

    Ian works across the full patent lifecycle, specializing in new chemical entities (NCEs) for the pharmaceutical sector, particularly those derived using artificial intelligence, and drug repurposing and repositioning.  He also coordinates Supplementary Protection Certificates across Europe, and Patent Term Extension worldwide, for marketable pharmaceuticals.  As such, he often advises on the issue of plausibility, and collaborates with his clients to ensure that their patent applications are supported by suitable data.

    Gregory Corcoran, ASML

    Gregory Corcoran, ASML

    Greg Corcoran is a patent attorney – European and UK, and an English solicitor. He has worked at ASML for over fifteen years contributing to ASML’s intellectual property activities that enable the business to have the freedom to operate as it seeks to achieve commercial objectives and goals. He has experience encompasses: asset creation, such as initiating, evaluating and repurposing patent portfolios; counselling business managers and designers to identify new inventions; and risk mitigation such as product clearance, third party risk assessments and international cross-jurisdictional dispute resolution. He is a member of CIPA’s Congress Committee.

  • 16:00 - 16:30 - Refreshment Break
  • 16:30 - 17:10 - Modern strategies of patent assertion entities
    Speakers
    Michael Jewess, K2 IP Limited

    Michael Jewess, K2 IP Limited

    Dr Michael Jewess is a UK Chartered Patent Attorney and a European Patent Attorney, now a consultant with K2 IP Limited.

    From 1988 to 2009, he headed successively the IP departments of Metal Box plc, CMB Packaging SA, British Telecommunications plc, and BAE Systems plc, responsible for patents, trade marks, and agreements, having previously worked in private practice and in the chemical industry. His book Inside intellectual property – best practice in intellectual property law, management, and strategy (CIPA, London, autumn 2013) covers a similar range and was described by one reviewer as “a ‘must-have’ for all IP practitioners of whatever nationality and wherever they practise worldwide”.

    He has also been President of the IP Federation and has worked on CIPA committees.

    Jonathan Stroud, General Counsel, Unified Patents, Maryland

    Jonathan Stroud, General Counsel, Unified Patents, Maryland

    Unified Patents acts against patent assertion entities, lobbying and filing amicus briefs and providing general advice to its members, which include numerous large companies such as Ford and Philips.

    Jonathan spent some years as a USPTO patent examiner (in the biomedical field, matching his first degree).  In 2013-2014 he qualified for the Maryland and DC Bars and was registered as a patent attorney.  After working as a litigation patent attorney at Finnegan, Henderson, et al he moved to Unified Patents in 2015, where he was appointed General Counsel in February 2022.

  • 17:10 - 17:25 - Hot Topics and Closing remarks
    Speakers
    Alexandra Seymour-Pierce, Venner Shipley LLP

    Alexandra Seymour-Pierce, Venner Shipley LLP

    Alexandra is a Senior Associate at Venner Shipley LLP, and Vice-Chair of CIPA’s Congress Committee. She specialises in patent drafting and patent prosecution of computer-implemented inventions and associated hardware, with a particular focus on the use of software and sensing data for control of robots and autonomous vehicles.  She also has extensive experience with semiconductor technology, particularly for use in consumer electronics and photovoltaic cells.  She joined the patent profession in 2014, following a PhD in Engineering Physics from University College London, during which she designed and tested sports equipment for use by Team GB athletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

  • 17:30 - 19:00 - Sun IP sponsored drinks reception

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