IP Business Congress 2010

Speakers

Name	Company	Position
Bruce Berman	Brody Berman Associates Inc	Chief executive officer
Pier Angelo Biga	IP Finance Institute	Director
Jean-Michel Bourdon	Via Licensing Corp	President
David Brown	Thomson Reuters	President, IP solutions
Duncan Bucknell	Duncan Bucknell Company	IP strategist
Richard Buttrick	RB Intellectual Property	Founder
Ronald Courtney	Siemens AG	Senior licensing counsel
Siegfried Dellinger	German Patent and Trademark Office	Vice-president
Scott M Frank	AT&T Intellectual Property	President
Margot Froehlinger	European Commission, DG Internal Market and Services	Director, knowledge based economy
Nicholas Gibson	Intellectual Ventures Japan	Director, business development
Edelbert Haefele	Patev GmbH & Co KG	Chief executive officer
Raymond Hegarty	IP Foundation	Chief executive officer
Bowman Heiden	Centre for Intellectual Property	Deputy director
Wulf Hoeflich	EADS/Airbus	Chief intellectual property counsel
Matthew Hogg	Liberty International Underwriters	Vice president
Carl Horton	GE	Chief IP counsel
Francois Jamet	France Telecom SA	Director, intellectual property and licensing
David J Kappos	United States Patent and Trademark Office	Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director
Wim Klop	DSM	Global vice president of intellectual property
Sherry M Knowles	GlaxoSmithKline	Senior vice president and chief intellectual property counsel
Nir Kossovsky	Steel City Re	Chief executive officer
Klaus-Heiner Lehne	European Parliament	Chairman, Legal Affairs Committee
Michael Lennon	Kenyon & Kenyon LLP	Partner
Terry Ludlow	Chipworks	Founder, chair and chief executive officer
Damon C Matteo	Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC)	Vice president and chief intellectual property officer
Daniel McCurdy	Allied Security Trust	Chief executive officer
Giancarlo Migliori	Mr GoodIDEA	Founding director
Giles Newman	Thomson Reuters	Vice president, IP solutions
Gerard Pannekoek	IPXI Holdings	Chief executive officer
Daniel Papst	Papst Licensing GmbH & Co KG	Chief patent officer
Ruud Peters	Philips Intellectual Property & Standards	Chief executive officer
Ulf Petrusson	CIP	Director
Marshall Phelps	Microsoft Corp	Former corporate vice president for intellectual property policy and strategy
Vincent Pluvinage	Intellectual Ventures	General manager of strategic acquisition, alliances & private equity
Richard Price	Taylor Wessing LLP	Partner
Bernd Singer	Steinbeis-Transferzentrum TB	Senior patent manager
Tom Skwarek	Swiss Re Capital Management and Advisory	Managing director
Wayne Sobon	Accenture	Director of IP
Stefan Steinbrener	European Patent Office	Former chairman, Board of Appeal 3.5.01 (Electricity 1)
Andrew Watson	ipVA	Chief executive officer
Hans Wegner	Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler	Partner
Audrey Yayon-Dauvet	Pernod Ricard SA	Group IP director
Richard Yung	French Senate	Senator
David Yurkerwich	CRA International	Vice-president
Ronald Zink	Microsoft	Associate general counsel

Biographies

Pier Angelo Biga Pier Angelo Biga is director of the IP Finance Institute and managing partner of ICM Advisors/ICM Research, a leading international business advisory and research firm specialised in intangible asset valuation and IP finance. Mr Biga has more than 35 years’ experience in leading-edge global advisory firms and industrial corporations. His specialties include business/marketing/technology strategy, business and intangible asset valuation, management of intangible-intensive businesses, corporate finance and IP finance. Since 2003 he has contributed extensively to the design and launch of intangible asset/IP-based financial instruments and solutions for SMEs in cooperation with leading commercial banks. Previous positions have included executive director and member of the directors' committee of Banca Nazionale Lavoro Group; senior vice president of ATKearney Europe; senior executive at AT&T Europe; partner at Nolan & Norton Company; South-Europe director for Digital Equipment Corporation; and associate scientist at CERN. He has authored a wide array of articles for industry, business and technology publications.
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David Brown David Brown serves as president of IP Solutions at Thomson Reuters, Legal, and is responsible for the worldwide information, software and services businesses covering patents, trademarks and standards. Mr Brown was most recently executive vice president of Corporate Markets in Thomson Reuters Scientific. During his 21-year career in the information industry, he has held a variety of senior management roles, including executive vice president and general manager of Dialog. Mr Brown holds bachelor’s degrees in history and computer applications from the University of Notre Dame and received his MBA from the University of North Carolina. He also serves on the board of the National Federation of Advanced Information Services.
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Duncan Bucknell Duncan Bucknell uses intellectual property to drive success for his clients, strategically and globally. His clients are based all over the world and range from multinational publicly listed entities to innovative and emerging companies. Mr Bucknell is a lawyer, patent attorney and veterinarian. In addition to his consulting practice, he is a principal fellow at the Melbourne Business School, where he teaches strategic management of intellectual property.
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Ronald Courtney Ronald S Courtney is a multilingual IP professional with more than 18 years' international legal and patent experience for European and US medium-sized and large multinationals. In addition to his legal credentials, he has advanced business marketing and cyber-communication education and expertise, and a certificate in European environmental law. A licensed US attorney and registered US patent attorney, Mr Courtney has led in the creation of start-up departments and small creative endeavours, and has had leading roles as corporate and IP counsel, general patent counsel and IP director for established and newly formed entities. His technical industry experience includes chemical, mechanical, electrical and communication products. Mr Courtney currently is senior licensing counsel at Siemens AG in Munich, focusing on IP monetization and business development, including implementation of strategic exploitation strategies, and is responsible for patent sales. He has long been active in international anti-counterfeiting efforts and IP education and training.
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Scott M Frank Scott Frank is the president of AT&T Intellectual Property. He is responsible for the identification, development, protection, management, marketing, licensing and sale of all company-wide intellectual property for AT&T, the world’s largest communications company. Mr Frank was named president of AT&T Intellectual Property in March 2007, following the December 2006 merger of AT&T and BellSouth, where he had previously been the president of intellectual property since 1998. When Mr Frank joined BellSouth in 1998, it had fewer than 50 patents issued in its first 14 years of existence and had not proactively marketed its intellectual property. At the time of the merger (nine years later), BellSouth Intellectual Property had more than 1,000 patents, had been recognised by BusinessWeek for the significant value of its patent portfolio and had added over half a billion dollars to BellSouth’s bottom line from its IP marketing efforts.
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Nicholas Gibson Nicholas Gibson serves as director of business development at Intellectual Ventures (IV) Japan. He is responsible for IV Japan’s product development, marketing and communications, and corporate affairs. He has worked with IV since the launch of its international invention development business in Asia in 2005, when he helped to establish JPD Ltd, a Japanese prototype operation for IV’s Asian business expansion. Prior to this, Mr Gibson was a director at K2 Services Corporation, an early-stage venture capital company investing in and incubating technology companies in Japan, Korea and Singapore. He began his career as a marketing consultant in Tokyo, consulting for many Fortune 100 companies including Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Citigroup. Mr Gibson received his BA from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. He has lived and worked in Asia since 1996.
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Edelbert Haefele Edelbert Häfele is CEO of PATEV and a publicly appointed and sworn expert for the valuation and utilisation of IP rights. He holds a PhD in engineering from Technical University in Karlsruhe, Germany. His professional career started in 1985, when he founded a consulting firm focusing on environmental and process technology. Five years later, Dr Häfele entered into a joint venture agreement with a supplier for car manufacturers. He later became manager of an international material technology firm which conducted business in Germany, Belgium and the United States. In 2001, Dr Häfele became the CEO of PATEV, one of Europe’s market leaders for IP management services. In recent years PATEV has greatly advanced the evaluation and utilisation of patents in companies as a contribution to added value. PATEV also offers associated services for the analysis and creation of effective patent items (patent engineering) and patent transfers.
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Matthew Hogg Matthew Hogg is vice president at Liberty International Underwriters, where he leads a newly established global division focusing on intangible and other strategic assets. The division underwrites specialist risks in the classes of intellectual property, reputation, cyber and non-material damage business interruption. Prior to joining Liberty, Mr Hogg was the Europe, Middle East and Africa technology leader for international insurance broker Marsh and before that an underwriter at Lloyd’s of London, where he created a number of niche products in the intangible assets space. He holds a degree in law, a master's in law and economics and an advanced diploma in insurance. Mr Hogg is also chairman of the Intangible Asset Finance Society (IAFS) Risk Committee and on the IAFS Membership Committee, a member of the Licensing Executive Society and the Chartered Insurance Institute, and chairman of UK charity Business & Education for London South.
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Wim Klop Wim Klop studied chemistry, physics and chemical engineering. He worked for 18 years in the innovation field in various jobs (from bench chemist to vice president of R&D) and in various fields (from artificial sweeteners to sterile manufacturing in the pharmaceuticals industry). He was a management team member of several international business units. He has extensive experience in the biotechnology field. For the past seven years he has had global responsibility for all IP issues at DSM.
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Nir Kossovsky Nir Kossovsky is the CEO of Steel City Re, a provider of corporate reputation management solutions. A leading authority on risk and reputation management, he authors IAM magazine’s reputation case study series and most recently published the ground-breaking handbook, Mission: Intangible. Managing risk and reputation to create enterprise value. Earlier in his career, Dr Kossovsky’s pioneering work with the Patent and License Exchange was memorialized in a Harvard Business School case study; before that, he was a tenured faculty member at the UCLA School of Medicine. He currently serves as executive secretary of the Intangible Asset Finance Society. Dr Kossovsky earned an MBA from the University of Southern California, an MD from the University of Chicago and a BA in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a graduate of the Naval War College.
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Klaus-Heiner Lehne Klaus-Heiner Lehne is a member of the European Parliament and since Summer 2009 has been chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs as well as chairman of the Conference of Committee Chairs in the European Parliament. He is also a substitute member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. He studied law, physics and philosophy in Dusseldorf, Freiburg, Cologne and Bonn. He was a member of the Dusseldorf City Council between 1984 and 1992. He was also a member of the German Bundestag between 1992 and 1994. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 1994.
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Terry Ludlow Terry Ludlow is a recognised pioneer in semiconductor reverse engineering and was among the first to realise its value for IP groups. He founded Chipworks in 1992 to offer semiconductor and microelectronics system reverse engineering services and patent infringement analysis to companies involved in licensing negotiations and litigations. As CEO, Mr Ludlow continues to provide the strategy, vision, and driving force that have earned Chipworks its position as the premier source of knowledge of what's inside technology.
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Damon C Matteo Damon C Matteo is vice president and CIPO of the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Mr Matteo's career spans nearly 20 years in the strategic creation, management and commercialisation of high-value intellectual capital assets. He regularly employs such vehicles as new business creation, start-ups, direct productisation, M&A, licensing and assertion – all in an international context. Dedicated to developing new theory and best practice in realising value from intellectual capital assets, Mr Matteo is also an author, columnist and frequent lecturer at universities and professional organisations worldwide. Mr Matteo was recently appointed chairman of the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) Public Advisory Committee, which operates like a board of directors (overseeing operations, goals, performance, budget etc) for the USPTO. Other board memberships include the European Centre for Intellectual Property Studies and the Silicon Valley LES. In recognition of this professional standing, he has received numerous awards and fellowships, and served as a government agency and trial expert.
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Giancarlo Migliori Giancarlo Migliori is founding director of MrgoodIDEA, a small boutique based in Italy specialising in providing services to most of the innovation value chain - hence its motto, “From ideas to IP capital”. Mr Migliori previously worked in investment banking in London and has transferred several financial risk-management and market-making techniques to innovation, IP and technology. He is active as both an operator and speaker in promoting links between finance and technology and the advent of a technology and IP market with various institutions, including the EPO, WIPO and the Italian Ministry for Development. Mr Migliori is a valuer for the European Commission’s Pro-Inno Valor programme, which is reviewing official IP and R&D valuation processes and EU funding guidelines. In 2010 he will focus on integrating public funding into private innovation, industrial macro-projects and the role of SMEs in the technology and IP value chain.
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Giles Newman Giles Newman joined Thomson, now Thomson Reuters, in September 2004 as the vice president of sales and marketing for corporate markets. He has helped to manage the integration of a number of acquired companies into Thomson and is responsible for global sales of an extensive collection of IP tools and databases. He is based in the EMEA headquarters in London. After graduating from university, Mr Newman was employed by a UK software company in support and account management roles in the United Kingdom and for a time in Switzerland. He went on to gain extensive experience in sales strategies, global sales and risk management at GE and then Bankers Trust. Subsequently, Mr Newman took leadership roles in two start-up businesses. In all these roles he has gained extensive international management experience. Mr Newman holds a pure mathematics and statistics degree from Exeter University in the United Kingdom.
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Gerard Pannekoek Gerard J Pannekoek joined IPXI Holdings, LLC in November 2009 as the company's president and CEO. Mr Pannekoek possesses 25 years of diverse corporate experience, with areas of expertise and responsibility including both domestic and international management, finance, marketing and operations. Throughout his career, he has developed and managed major projects and initiatives involving complex business issues, legal transactions, mergers and acquisitions and restructuring. Before assuming his present role at IPXI Holdings, Mr Pannekoek served as teaching professor at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, where he taught entrepreneurship and international management to both MBA and undergraduate students. From 2002 to 2005, he was president and chief operating officer of the Chicago Climate Exchange, a start-up company that became the world's first multinational and multi-sector market for reducing and trading greenhouse gas emissions.
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Daniel Papst Daniel G Papst graduated from the University of Karlsruhe in electrical engineering and information technology in 2000, earning a Dipl-Ing (comparable to an MS). He gained some early legal experience as an intern at the law firm of Welsh & Katz Ltd in Chicago in early 2000. Thereafter, he undertook the formal training to become a German patent attorney at IP law firm Reinhard Skuhra Weise & Partner GbR in Munich. Mr Papst has been a licensed German patent attorney and has worked with Papst Licensing GmbH & Co KG in St Georgen since 2005. He is one of the firm's managing directors and shareholders.
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Ruud Peters Ruud Peters, a national of the Netherlands, was appointed chief executive officer of Philips Intellectual Property & Standards (IP&S) in 1999, in which position he is responsible for managing Philips’ worldwide IP portfolio creation and value extraction activities. He is also responsible for technical and formal standardisation activities in the fields of consumer lifestyle, healthcare, lighting and technology. He joined Philips IP&S in 1977 and became director responsible for licensing in 1990. He has participated in standards bodies such as the International Organization for Standardization and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, where he was active in the formulation of IP policies. Currently, Philips IP&S has about 500 people working in 16 countries around the world. Mr Peters is also a board member of three technology/IP licensing/trading companies. He has a background in physics.
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Vincent Pluvinage Vincent Pluvinage currently leads strategic acquisitions and private equity at Intellectual Ventures. Intellectual Ventures was founded in 2000 and currently has about $5 billion of capital under management. Prior to Intellectual Ventures, Dr Pluvinage was CEO of IPVALUE Management Inc, where he built the team of IP experts and closed over $0.25 billion of IP transactions. He was CEO of Preview Systems, which he took public in 1999. Before co-founding Preview Systems, he spun out the core technology from AT&T Bell Laboratories to ReSound, a newly created start-up, where he first led the R&D before being promoted president of International operations, participating in the NASDAQ initial public offering in 1993. Dr Pluvinage completed the Stanford Executive Management Programme. He completed his PhD in bioengineering at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, after completing summa cum laude his engineering degree in applied physics at Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.
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Stefan Steinbrener Stefan Steinbrener was previously a member of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich and chairman of Board of Appeal 3.5.01 (Electricity I), which handles appeal cases in patent matters for computer-implemented inventions, covering both hardware and software. Under his chairmanship, the board made fundamental contributions to the case law in this field. Dr Steinbrener studied physics in Munich and Regensburg, and holds a PhD from the University of Wurzburg. He worked as an examiner at the German Patent and Trademark Office and EPO, and was appointed a member of EPO Board of Appeal 3.4.02 (Physics II) in 1997 and chairman of Board 3.5.01 in 2001. After his retirement, he joined Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler in early 2010. Dr Steinbrener acted as a consultant to the IP Office of Singapore and lectured at CEIPI/Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg. He is the author of various publications and presentations on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions.
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Andrew Watson Andrew Watson is the CEO and one of the founders of ipVA, the London-based IP advisory and products provider. ipVA works for venture capital and private equity-backed businesses across the technology and clean-tech sectors, acting as a CIPO for the clients it represents. After 15 years as an M&A lawyer in Andersen, in 2001 Mr Watson joined Thirdspace, a co-venture by Alcatel and Oracle into the then-nascent IPTV market. Oracle had donated a portfolio of video streaming patents to the business. Two years of intensive IP education later, Thirdspace was sold to Alcatel, the quality of its IP being one of the core reasons for its valuation. Mr Watson is also a presenter at the European Venture Capital Association’s IP rights masterclass.
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Hans Wegner Hans Wegner's practice covers all matters relating to patents, utility models and designs, with a special focus on telecommunications, computer hardware and software. His activities include representation in patent examination and opposition proceedings before the German Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office, as well as the enforcement of patent rights before the patent courts and parallel nullity proceedings before the German Federal Patent Court. Dr Wegner is the author of the chapter on Germany in Software Patents Worldwide, published in 2007. He holds a doctorate in physical chemistry.
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Richard Yung On 26th September 2004 Richard Yung was elected as senator representing French citizens abroad. He is a member of the Legislation Committee and of the European Affairs Committee. Mr Yung graduated in economic sciences from the Paris-Panthéon University (1970) and holds a diploma from the Paris Political Institute (1971). He started his career as head of the planning and budget department at CNRS – the French National Research and Science Institute (1973-1978), and then became general secretary of INPI – the French Intellectual Property Institute (1978-1983). After two years at Banque Worms as adviser to the president, and one year as administrative and financial head of QUESTEL-TELESYSTEMES, he returned to the IP world as director of general administration at the World Intellectual Property Organization (Geneva, 1986-1989), then director of international cooperation at the European Patent Office (Munich, 1989-2004).
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