18Sep
Webinar

Wednesday 18 September

Understanding SPCs in Latin America

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Start: Wednesday 18 September 2024, 12:30 PM

End: Wednesday 18 September 2024, 01:30 PM

Event Overview

Join us for a comprehensive webinar on Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) in Latin America. Discover the unique legislative frameworks, application procedures, and recent developments in key countries across the region. Our expert speaker will share practical insights, best practices, and strategies for navigating the complexities of SPCs, helping you extend the life of your patents and protect your innovations in Latin America.

Audience

IP Paralegals, Paralegals

Speakers

Howard Read, ACAPO AS

Howard Read, ACAPO AS

Howard exploits his interdisciplinary technical knowledge to protect inventions for Applicants, particularly in emerging technologies in chemistry, physics, health care and computing, including AI/ML. Howard pragmatically applies his legal expertise and extensive experience before the EPO Opposition Divisions and Boards of Appeal to defend rights for Patentees and to challenge third party rights for Opponents, including as strawperson. Howard combines his knowledge, expertise and experience to advantageously benefit Litigants before national courts. Howard capitalizes further on his business acumen to develop IP and commercialization strategies for organizations dependent on innovation, including delivering Freedom to Operate risk assessment opinions.

Howard is a European Patent Attorney, European Patent Litigator (representative before the UPC) and a UK Chartered Patent Attorney. Prior to joining the patent profession in 2014, Howard undertook academic research in Japan, delivered offshore and energy engineering projects and developed analytical instrumentation, particularly for health care.

Howard graduated from the University of Cambridge, UK with MA in Natural Sciences and a PhD in Metallurgy. Howard also has a MSc in Computing, a LLM (Distinction) in Intellectual Property Law from the University of Manchester, UK and a Diploma (Distinction) in Patent Litigation in Europe from the University of Strasbourg, France.

Howard is fluent in English and Portuguese, having grown up in Brazil, and is proficient in French.

Howard leads the LATAM working group of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) International Liaison Committee (ILC). Howard is the Secretary of FICPI-UK and the UK FICPI alternate delegate. Howard is also the substitute member for Norway for the epi Professional Education Committee and the epi Litigation Committee. Howard regularly presents on patent case law and tutors candidates for the European Qualifying Examinations (EQEs).

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