Name	Company	Position
Mike T Barlow	BP plc	Head, Global Patents and Technology Law
Jonathan Barney	PatentRatings LLC / Ocean Tomo	Founder and Chief Executive Officer / Managing Director
Shamnad Basheer	Spicy India IP Blog	Founder
Jonathan Batho	World Trademark Review	Editor
Bruce Berman	Brody Berman Associates, Inc	Chief Executive Officer
Joe Beyers	Hewlett-Packard Company	Vice President, Intellectual Property Licensing
Sharon Bowles	European Parliament	MEP
Guus Broesterhuizen	Dutch Patent Office	President
Duncan Bucknell	Duncan Bucknell Company	IP Strategist
Roger Burt	IBM	Intellectual Property Law Counsel, Europe
Richard Buttrick	Philips IP & Standards	IP Value Extraction Executive
Allan Caldwell	Intangible Business	Director
Peter Cicala	Shire Pharmaceuticals	Vice-President IP
Mark S. Cohen	Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP	Senior Partner and Chair of the Life Science Practice Group
Susan E Cullen	Thomson Scientific Professional Services	Consulting Practice Director
Duncan Curley	Innovate Legal	Founder
Ferdy de Smeth	Brand Finance	Managing Director (Netherlands)
Severin de Wit	IPEG consultancy	Managing consultant
Paul diGiammarino	Anaqua	CEO
Roberto Dini	Sisvel	European Patent and Trademark Attorney
Edward Droste	CRA International	Principal
Pierre-André Dubois	Kirkland & Ellis International	Partner
Jon Dudas	USPTO	Director
William C Elkington	Rockwell Collins	Senior Director, Strategic Technology
Haydn Evans	GE Healthcare	Senior Patent Analyst
Marian Flattery	Syngenta Crop Protection AG	Head of Intellectual Property, Crop Protection
Scott M Frank	AT&T Intellectual Property	President and CEO
Lulin Gao	East IP	Chairman
Simon Gentry	Campbell Gentry	Managing Director
Roya Ghafele	Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley	International Research Scholar
Susannah Gray	Royalty Pharma	Chief Financial Officer
Horacio E. Gutiérrez	Microsoft Corporation	Vice President and Deputy General Counsel
Ian Harvey	Intellectual Property Institute	Chairman
Bowman Heiden	CIP Gothenburg	Deputy Director
Peter D Holden	Coller Capital Ltd	Partner
Bertram Huber	Robert Bosch GmbH	Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Intellectual Property
David J Kappos	IBM Corporation	Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Intellectual Property Law
Sam Knight	QinetiQ	IP Licensing Manager
Ron Laurie	Inflexion Point Strategy, LLC	Chairman and Managing Director
Bruce A Lehman	International Intellectual Property Institute	Chair
Leo Longauer	UBS AG	Head of Group Intellectual Property
Terry Ludlow	Chipworks	Founder, Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Marcus Luepke	Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP	International Trademark Attorney
Jean-Pierre Maeder	Nestlé	Group Head of Trademarks
Damon C Matteo	PARC (Palo Alto Research Centre)	Vice President & CIPO
Daniel P McCurdy	PatentFreedom LLC	Chairman
Daniel McGavock	CRA International	Vice President and Global IP Practice Leader
Ciaran McGinley	European Patent Office	Controller
Giles Newman	Thomson Scientific	VP Sales
Shinjiro Ono	YUASA and HARA	Senior Partner, Head of Patent Division
Ruud Peters	Philips Intellectual Property & Standards	Chief Executive Officer
Ulf Petrusson	CIP Gothenburg	Director
Marshall Phelps	Microsoft Corporation	Corporate Vice President, IP Policy and Strategy
Vincent Pluvinage	Intellectual Ventures	General Manager of Strategic Acquisition, Alliances & Private Equity
John Pryor	CPA Global	Head of IP Asset Commercialisation
Kevin Rivette	USPTO Patent Advisory Committee	Chairman
Jöelle Rogé	World Intellectual Property Organisation	Director
David S Ruder	Terrier IP Investments, LLC	Founder
Steve Socolof	New Venture Partners	Managing Partner
Peter Spours	TomTom	Head of IP Strategy & Transactions
Robert G Sterne	Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, PLLC	Founding Director
Paul VU van Grevenstein	STI Management	Managing Director
Ton van Hoef	ASML	VP and Chief IP Counsel
David VandenEinde	Cargill, Incorporated	Director of Intellectual Asset Management
Michael O Warnecke	Perkins Coie LLP	Partner
Andrew Watson	ipVA	CEO
Alexander J Wurzer	Patev GmbH & Co. KG	Managing Director
Taro Yaguchi	Japan Technology Group Inc	Chief Executive Officer
Jonathan Zuck	Association for Competitive Technology	President

Biographies
Mike T Barlow Mike Barlow has an MA and D.Phil from the University of Oxford in Chemistry and is a qualified UK and European Patent Attorney. Since 1995 he has been Head of BP International’s Global Patents and Technology Law group in which role he has lead the IP aspects of all BP’s significant transactions including the mergers or acquisitions of Amoco, Arco, Burmah Castrol and Veba Oil and the divestiture of BP’s commodity petrochemical business to Ineos. He is a past President of the Trade Marks, Patents and Designs Federation (TMPDF – the principal Industry IP body in the UK) and is currently a Vice President and Chair of its Patents Committee. He is also Chair of the European Chemical Industries IP Task Force and a Council member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys. Dr Barlow was a co-author of the 2003 Royal Society study on the effect of IP on science and he currently chairs the UK Intellectual Property Offices B2B committee taking forward the recommendations of the Gowers review.
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Jonathan Barney Jonathan A Barney is the founder and chief executive officer of PatentRatings LLC and a managing director of Ocean Tomo, an intellectual capital merchant banc™ firm. As an inventor, lawyer and entrepreneur with over 20 years’ experience working with patents and technology, Mr Barney provides thought leadership in the areas of quantitative patent analysis, patent capital investment strategies and other strategic initiatives broadly aimed at creating and enhancing market liquidity in patents and related intellectual capital assets. Prior to starting PatentRatings and joining Ocean Tomo, Mr Barney was a partner in the Newport Beach, California offices of Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP, where he specialised in patent prosecution, patent licensing and strategic patent asset management. Mr Barney is a registered patent lawyer and a graduate of Virginia Tech University (BSME 1987, cum laude) and the University of Michigan Law School (JD 1993, cum laude).
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Shamnad Basheer Shamnad Basheer is a research associate at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Center. Until recently, he was the Frank H Marks visiting associate professor of intellectual property law at the George Washington University Law School. He is also the founder of SpicyIP, a blog dedicated to analysing IP and innovation policy news and cases from India. Mr Basheer graduated from India’s premier law school, the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He then joined Anand And Anand, a leading intellectual property law firm in New Delhi, and worked on a variety of contentious and non-contentious IP matters before being called upon to head the firm’s IT and telecommunications law division. While in practice, the IFLR 1000 guide rated him as an upcoming, leading technology lawyer. Mr Basheer went on to do his postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford. He completed the BCL (as a Shell Centenary scholar) with distinction; his thesis dealing with biotechnology and patent law in India was awarded second prize in a writing contest held by the Stanford Technology Law Review. He is currently reading for his DPhil (PhD) as a Wellcome Trust scholar. In the past, Mr Basheer has been an invited research fellow at the Institute of Intellectual Property, Tokyo, an International Bar Association scholar and an Inter-Pacific Bar Association scholar. He has also been an editor of the Oxford Commonwealth Law Journal and a founding member of the Electronic Database of Intellectual Property. His research interests include patents and developing countries, and the interface between patents and antitrust. He has spoken on these themes at various conferences and also published papers in leading technology journals such as Intellectual Property Quarterly, European Intellectual Property Law Review and the Journal of Law Technology and Policy.
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Bruce Berman Bruce Berman is chief executive officer of Brody Berman Associates, Inc in New York, a leading management consulting and communications firm focusing on intellectual property assets, holders and investors. Brody Berman is best known for helping clients establish and convey IP value. Mr Berman’s most recent book is Making Innovation Pay – People Who Turn IP Into Shareholder Value. He also conceived and edited From Ideas to Assets – Investing Wisely in Intellectual Property (John Wiley & Sons, 2002), a widely acclaimed book about the business of IP. Mr Berman is a member of the editorial advisory boards of Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine and Patent Strategy & Management. His “IP Investor” column appears regularly in IAM. Articles, chapters and commentary written by him have appeared in many periodicals and books, including The Book of Investing Rules (Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2003), which The Motley Fool named as one of 10 most useful investment books. Mr Berman is currently at work on a book about IP business models and transactions.
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Joe Beyers Joe Beyers is the vice president of intellectual property licensing at the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). He is responsible for creating and driving HP’s intellectual property strategy and for driving initiatives to increase the value realised by HP from its IP portfolio. In particular, his worldwide team is responsible for patent licensing, technology licensing, brand licensing, standards-based licensing and patent sales and acquisitions for HP. Previously, Mr Beyers was vice president and general manager of strategic planning and business development for HP’s Computer Systems business. In this role he was responsible for strategic and tactical planning for businesses including HP’s PC, workstation, server, storage and software businesses. He was also part of HP’s Strategy Council, which drove top-level HP corporate strategy and cross-company initiatives. Prior to the Computer Systems role, Mr Beyers was the vice president and general manager of HP’s Internet Business Unit. This organisation was responsible for HP’s Internet software products including Internet security, imaging, embedded JAVA, e-commerce software, e-business solutions and Internet financial transaction systems (VeriFone). Previously, he was a director of mergers and acquisitions for HP. In this role he drove and executed a number of major strategic alliances, equity investments, acquisitions and divestitures for HP. This work spanned across many of HP’s printing, computing, software, services and instrument businesses. As director of the Integrated Circuit Design Technology Center, Mr Beyers was responsible for a wide range of integrated-circuit design and CAD tools programs and businesses. As part of this work, he was the lead inventor of the world’s first 32-bit VLSI computer chip. This chip contained 450,000 transistors and was several times more complex than any VLSI chip at the time. In recognition of this achievement, he received the best paper award at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSC) in 1982. He then initiated HP’s first reduced instruction set architecture (RISC) VLSI chip design, which is today the basis of HP’s PA-RISC microprocessors. Mr Beyers’ first assignment in HP was the development of the operating system for the HP 9825 desktop computer. In this work, he received a patent on the fundamental concept of being able to use the keyboard of a desktop computer to interact with multiple applications at the same time. In addition to his 31 years within HP, Mr Beyers spent two years as vice president of strategic marketing at Taligent, a software joint venture between IBM, HP and Apple. Mr Beyers holds an MS in electrical engineering (1975) and a BS in computer engineering (1974) from the University of Illinois. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois in 2007. Mr Beyers also completed MBA courses at the Kellogg Business School, Darden Business School and Golden Gate University.
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Sharon Bowles Sharon Bowles graduated from Reading University in chemical physics with mathematics and then researched the electroluminescent properties of lll-V semiconductor materials in the Department of Metallurgy and Science of Materials at Oxford University. She qualified as a chartered patent agent and European patent attorney in 1981 and founded her own firm, now Bowles Horton, located in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Her practice has mainly been concerned with electronics, integrated circuit design and semiconductor fabrication. Having contested Parliamentary and European Parliamentary elections in 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999 and 2004, in May 2005 she became a Member of the European Parliament for South East England. Upon her arrival in the European Parliament, she immediately took an active part in the latter stages of the debate on computer-implemented inventions and was instrumental in achieving the rejection of that proposed legislation, regarding the outcome, had it proceeded, as too confused to risk its continuance. She is a member of the Economics and Monetary Affairs Committee, but her technical and professional experience means that she is sought out by technical industry over a range of matters spread over many other committees. Ms Bowles is also a substitute member of the Legal Affairs committee and leads on IP dossiers for ALDE.
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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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Roger Burt Roger Burt is a chartered patent attorney and European patent attorney, and is the intellectual property law counsel for IBM in Europe. In this role he is responsible for IP law departments in the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland and Israel, employing a total of 36 patent attorneys and trainees. Before joining IBM in 1986, Dr Burt spent two years with ICI, having started in the profession with (the then) Beecham Pharmaceuticals. Dr Burt has been a member of the Council of the EPI since 1999, serving as a member of the European Patent Practice Committee and the Online Communications Committee. He represents Business Europe (UNICE) and TMPDF (the Trade Marks Patents and Designs Federation) on the Standing Advisory Committee before the EPO (SACEPO). Dr Burt is also on the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorney' Patents Committee.
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Allan Caldwell Allan Caldwell has a physics degree from Imperial College, London and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, qualifying with Coopers & Lybrand, now PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has spent over 20 years in senior commercial finance roles in multinational consumer goods companies, including Beatrice Companies Inc and Allied Domecq, and the last four years as a director of leading independent brand valuation and strategy consultancy Intangible Business Limited. Mr Caldwell has wide experience in brand strategy/valuation projects in wines and spirits, food, soft drinks, confectionery, homeware, computer software, perfume and cosmetics.
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Mark S. Cohen Mark S Cohen is a senior partner and chair of the Life Science Practice Group at Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP. He is a registered patent attorney in the United States experienced in patent prosecution in the pharmaceutical, chemical, biological and medical device areas; licensing matters; and client counselling. He is well versed in various aspects of patent prosecution, intellectual property management, strategic advice, technology assessment and licensing matters, including management of large patent portfolios, negotiating terms and drafting agreements, and counselling start-ups. He has been involved in large due diligence matters; infringement/validity/patentability opinions; licensing matters; European patent opposition proceedings; US interference and re-examination proceedings. Mr Cohen received a bachelor of arts degree in biochemistry from Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey; a master of science degree in biology from New York University, New York; and a juris doctor degree from the University of Baltimore, Maryland. Mr Cohen is admitted to the Bar in New York; New Jersey; the US District Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; and the US District Court, District of New Jersey. Mr Cohen served as editor in chief of the University of Baltimore Intellectual Property Law Journal. Mr Cohen was a contributing editor to the Journal of Biolaw and Business; a strategic advisory board member of the University Of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute; an advisory board member of the University of Baltimore Intellectual Property Law Journal from 1993 to 2000; and formerly the chair of the Animal Patent Committee and the chair of the Plant Patent Committee of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the American Bar Association. He has published in Nature Biotechnology and various patent trade journals. He lectures on patent issues in the biotechnology/pharmaceutical area in the United States
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Susan E Cullen Susan Cullen led a research group for 18 years and has 10 years of IP management experience, which included directing a licensing office and participation in redesign of IP practices at Monsanto/Pharmacia. Since 2000 she has worked as a consultant in IP analysis and aims to help people and companies succeed through effective IP management. She develops methodology for extracting competitive and technical intelligence from IP, gives advanced training for users of Thomson analytical tools and provides customised consulting for clients of Thomson. Her consulting clients have included over 80 companies in industries as diverse as semiconductors, oil drilling, heavy machinery and automotive, energy, consumer goods, foods, optical equipment, medical devices, printing, and digital security. Dr Cullen has a PhD in microbiology from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a BS in chemistry, and is a registered US patent agent. She is also an adjunct full professor at Washington University in St Louis.
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Duncan Curley Duncan Curley qualified as a solicitor in 1995 at magic circle law firm Clifford Chance. He became a partner in the IP department of another international law firm in 2003, before leaving last year to found boutique IP practice Innovate Legal, based in London. Dr Curley’s experience consists predominantly of patent and trademark litigation. He is a specialist in dealing with antitrust counterclaims in the context of IP litigation, having acted in one of the major UK cases on “Eurodefences” (Sandvik v Pfiffner, patents) and in Sportswear v Stonestyle (trademarks). He is the author of over 50 published articles, the leading textbook Intellectual Property Licences and Technology Transfer (on the European technology transfer block exemption) and Extending Rewards for Innovative Drug Development, a report on supplementary protection certificates published recently by the Intellectual Property Institute.
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Ferdy de Smeth
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Severin de Wit Severin de Wit is founder of IPEG Consultancy, an international strategic IP consultancy of 12 consultants from the UK, the USA, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. He has been an IP attorney since 1978 and has been a partner at Clifford Chance and Simmons & Simmons. He was special IP counsel to ASML from 2001 to 2004 in the global patent litigation against lithography manufacturer Nikon of Japan. He was a part-time judge in the District Court of The Hague Court until 2000. He is the editor of IER, a leading IP journal in the Netherlands. Since 2005 Mr de Wit has run Europe’s best-known patent blog, ipeg.com.
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Roberto Dini With 35 years of experience, Roberto Dini is one of the best-known and appreciated experts in the field of intellectual property, both in Italy and in Europe. He has previously headed the patent department at Indesit and is the owner of 28 patents. In 1982 Mr Dini founded Sisvel, which soon became a leader in the licensing field, establishing itself as a leading international players by exploiting the value of its patents as well as those of third parties. In recent years Mr Dini has attended to the negotiation and enforcement of patent rights in the field of consumer electronics, which has led to the conclusion of a large number of licence agreements with several well-known multinational corporations. In his role at Indesit and subsequently at Merloni Elettrodomestici, Mr Dini held significant responsibilities in relation to IP, defining company IP policy, concluding licence agreements with multinational companies in the field of household electrical appliances, establishing joint ventures and providing technical and legal assistance for software protection and copyright enforcement. Mr Dini is also the founder and sole director of Metroconsult srl, a consultancy company in the industrial property sector with offices in None Torinese, Milan and Genoa. As a patent attorney, Mr Dini has specialist expertise on the enforcement of patent rights – in particular, in relation to consumer electronics - and on judicial and extra-judicial actions for IP infringement and nullity.
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Edward Droste Edward Droste is a principal with extensive experience in the economics and econometrics of competition, regulation, competitive strategy and government policy on market design. Dr Droste has led engagements and advised clients in a wide range of industries, including financial services, utilities, healthcare and telecommunications and media. Prior to joining CRA, Dr Droste was a senior economist in the antitrust department of the Netherlands Competition Authority, a regulatory economist at Essent and a consultant at KPMG Economic Consulting in its market and government practice. Dr Droste holds an MSc in econometrics and a PhD in economics from Tilburg University, has published numerous papers and has presented at many forums on competition and regulatory policy issues.
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Pierre-André Dubois Pierre-André Dubois is the partner in charge of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP’s UK and European intellectual property and competition law group. The group’s practice covers all aspects of intellectual property and information technology law, as well as UK and EU competition law. His work involves advising on hard IP issues and commercial matters such as outsourcing agreements, licensing, distribution agreements, R&D agreements, manufacturing agreements and joint ventures. He deals with competition law matters in Europe and the UK, such as complex merger clearance cases (including Phase II investigations), abuse of dominant position and cartels. He has represented many clients in investigations before the European Commission, including cases involving IP issues. In addition to his work before the European Commission, he regularly represents clients before the Office of Fair Trading, the German Federal Cartel Office and the High Court of England and Wales, as well as the European Patent Office, the UK Patent Office and the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market. His client base varies from investment banks, private equity funds and large publicly traded companies to smaller UK, Asian and US-based enterprises and start-ups. In 2008, 2007, 2006 and 2005 Mr Dubois was recommended as a leading lawyer by PLC Which Lawyer? Global 50. He was also recommended in the IT field by PLC Cross-border Communications Handbook in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Mr Dubois was named in 2003 as a leading IP lawyer Legal 500 (UK edition), listed in 2002 as a leading lawyer by Global Corporate Counsel 300 and in 2001 as a leading IP/IT practitioner by The Insider’s Guide to Legal Practice. He is the author of many articles and chapters in the fields of IP, IT and competition law.
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William C Elkington William C Elkington is senior director, strategic technology, at Rockwell Collins. He is responsible for protection and value extraction strategies concerning Rockwell Collins’ strategic technology. In addition, he is responsible for intellectual property valuation and for licensing Rockwell Collins’ technology into markets it does not serve. Prior to joining Rockwell Collins, Mr Elkington was co-founder and vice president of program management at MeshNetworks, a wireless technology company established to commercialise ITT’s communications system technology. MeshNetworks was sold to Motorola in 2004. Prior to joining MeshNetworks, at ITT’s Aerospace/Communications Division (A/CD), Mr Elkington was the program manager on technology development programs that furnished the technology basis for MeshNetworks. Prior to this role, Mr Elkington led strategic and operations planning at ITT A/CD. Before joining ITT, Mr Elkington held positions of increasing responsibility in GE R&D organisations (the Electronics Laboratory in Syracuse, New York, and the Advanced Technology Laboratory in Moorestown, New Jersey). These positions were in technology marketing and program management. Mr Elkington’s bachelor’s degree is from the University of Michigan and his advanced degrees are from Syracuse University.
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Haydn Evans Haydn Evans has worked in the IP industry for 10 years and for the last four years has been employed as a senior patent analyst for GE Healthcare (formerly part of Amersham Plc). He is responsible for identifying and implementing tools and methodology to acquire and analyse patent information, and is part of a team responsible for embedding a strategic IP culture within GE. Recently this has involved the design and implementation of structured informatics and analytics processes that enable informed IP decisions within R&D projects and facilitate strategic business decisions throughout the GE organisation. Prior to joining GE, Mr Evans worked for an independent search firm (RWS) as a team leader for the chemical/biochemical division. He has a degree in biochemistry from Nottingham University.
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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 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 IP. At the time of the merger (nine years later), BellSouth Intellectual Property had more than 1,000 patents, had been recognised by Business Week 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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Lulin Gao Lulin Gao has spent many years in public office in China working in the IP protection field. During the course of his career he has held the positions of commissioner of the Chinese Patent Office and founding commissioner of the State Intellectual Property Office. He was a senior adviser to the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva for two years. Dr Gao is currently honorary president of the All-China Patent Attorneys Association, vice chairman of the China Internet Society and a member of the Steering Committee of the China Internet Network Information Center. Dr Gao has published numerous works on patent prosecution and litigation, licensing, IPR protection, the TRIPs Agreement and domain names. He was invited to teach IP law by many universities including Peking University and John Marshall Law School. Dr Gao obtained his PhD in prospecting technology from Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute in the former Soviet Union. In 2002 Dr Gao founded specialist IP firm East IP, which was recognised by Asia Law and Practice as one of the leading IP firms in mainland China in 2004. He is currently a PRC lawyer and patent attorney, senior engineer, professor and a fellow of the Russian International Academy of Engineering. Dr Gao speaks Chinese, English and Russian.
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Simon Gentry Simon Gentry is the managing director of Campbell Gentry, a pan-European public affairs consultancy. Based in London, Mr Gentry began his career in public affairs with Westminster Strategy in 1990. Later that year he was transferred to Brussels to set up and manage the political information gathering unit of European Strategy. In 1994 he returned to London and joined pharmaceuticals company SmithKline Beecham, where he led the successful lobby in support of the European Directive on patenting of biotechnological inventions. He also worked on the launch of a number of blockbuster products for the company’s pharmaceutical business. In 2000 he joined the Association of British Insurers as head of European affairs, successfully steering the Association to a pre-eminent position on insurance-related policy issues. In October 2003 Mr Gentry established Campbell Gentry. The company now advises clients on their relationships with legislators, officials and stakeholders in Brussels, London, Paris, Rome, Madrid and Berlin. Against a backdrop of campaigns designed to weaken the IP regime, Campbell Gentry continues to advise organisations and companies committed to shaping a modern and robust intellectual property system, fit for the 21st century, in Europe. The company managed the successful campaigns for smoke-free workplaces in the UK and France for GlaxoSmithKline, and advises a number of global healthcare companies on their relations with national governments and European institutions. The company also works with clients in the financial services sector and the sports sector.
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Roya Ghafele Roya Ghafele works as an international research scholar at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, where she focuses on how innovation may be promoted by providing a liquidity event for intellectual property. Prior to her assignment at UC Berkeley, she worked as an economist with the World Intellectual Property Organisation, where she offered strategic advice to governments in the Middle East and Asia on the leverage of their intangible assets for value creation. Other than that, she gained work experience with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Trade Directorate, McKinsey & Company and as a professional ballet dancer. Dr Ghafele was trained at Johns Hopkins University, the Sorbonne and Vienna University. Her PhD, entitled “Globalization, Francophone Africa and the WTO – a Historical Discourse Analysis”, was awarded the Theodor Körner Research Prize by the Austrian president.
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Horacio E. Gutiérrez Horacio Gutiérrez is Microsoft Corporation’s vice president and deputy general counsel in charge of the company’s worldwide intellectual property, licensing and corporate standards group. Prior to his current position, Mr Gutiérrez was based in Paris, France, where he was Microsoft’s general counsel for Europe, Middle East and Africa, overseeing all legal, regulatory and government affairs matters in that region. Mr Gutiérrez is a frequent lecturer on legal and policy issues. He was selected by the US Department of Commerce to represent the United States in the FTAA Joint Government-Private Sector Committee of Experts on Electronic Commerce. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Latin America and Caribbean Law Initiative Council, as well as a member of the board of directors of the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade. Before joining Microsoft in 1998, Mr Gutiérrez was a member of the international practice group of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, were he worked on international intellectual property and competition law matters, commercial law and corporate finance legal matters. Prior to that, he was a vice president of corporate finance for a leading Latin American investment bank. Mr Gutiérrez is trained and has practised law in both civil law and common law jurisdictions. He holds an LLM from Harvard Law School, which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar; a JD, summa cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law; an LLB from Catholic University (Caracas, Venezuela); and a specialisation in corporate and commercial law from the same institution. Mr Gutiérrez is a member of the New York, Florida, American, International and Federal District (Venezuela) Bar Associations, and is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French.
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Ian Harvey Ian Harvey became chairman of the Intellectual Property Institute in 1999. Prior to that, he was chief executive officer of BTG plc from 1985 until his retirement in late 2004. During that time he oversaw the privatisation of BTG in 1992, its public flotation in 1995, a demerger of part of its business and three rights issues amounting to about £170 million to raise development capital from its shareholders. BTG is a world-leading technology commercialisation company which had been patenting and licensing globally since the early 1950s. Following a degree in mechanical sciences at Cambridge University, Mr Harvey began his career as an engineer with Vickers and Laporte Industries in the civil, aerospace and chemical industries. After obtaining an MBA from Harvard Business School, he worked with the World Bank in a variety of roles in South Asia and French-speaking West Africa. He is also adjunct professor at the Tanaka Business School, Imperial College, London; an adviser to NTEM, Tianjin, China; and a fellow of the University of Nottingham. He is a member of the Industry Advisory Board, Center for IP Studies (CIP) Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg University; the Board of London Bioscience Innovation Centre; and the Advisory Board – International Intellectual Property Institute, Washington DC. He has an honorary doctorate from the University of Wolverhampton. Other appointments include: Prime Minister’s Advisory Council on Science & Technology (1989-93); Advisory Panel for Science & Technology Policy Research Unit of Sussex University (1989-2003); chairman of the UK government’s Intellectual Property Advisory Committee (1999-2005); director, Process Automation and Computer Systems (1985-1992); companion of the Chartered Management Institute (1987-); Air Products & Chemicals Inc European Advisory Council (1999-2005); Policy Committee of Cancer Research UK (2004-2006); fellow, Royal Society of Arts (1997-); director, Primaxis Technology Ventures Inc (1999-2005); Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council Appointments Committee (1999-). Mr Harvey has been a student for many years of the history and trends of global invention and technology development and the related role of IP. He has written many articles and book chapters and lectures widely on global intellectual property and technology issues, particularly as they relate to business. He is currently heavily involved with the development of intellectual property in China.
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Bowman Heiden Bowman Heiden’s role as deputy director of CIP involves strategic programme development specifically focused on the building of collaborative innovation platforms to facilitate the creation and development of knowledge-based business. In this role Mr Heiden has co-developed the intellectual capital management master’s programme (ICM), which promotes knowledge-based business development and management for business, engineering and law students. Mr Heiden is also co-founder of the Gothenburg International Bioscience Business School, which develops bioscience ventures within an embedded pre-incubator, and CIP Professional Services, which provides management consulting to both established firms and technology start-ups. Mr Heiden has also developed CIP FORUM, which has become one of the leading knowledge-based business events worldwide. Current projects include the construction of an intellectual capital incubator designed to package intellectual assets into viable innovations in a pre-venture setting with partners worldwide and the creation of a social entrepreneurship platform focused on developing countries. Mr Heiden holds several further positions, including chairman of the ScanBalt Knowledge Network on IP and Bio-entrepreneurship and chairman of the Task Group on Innovation for the European Federation of Biotechnology.
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Peter D Holden Peter Holden is a partner at Coller Capital Ltd, a leading secondary private equity firm with over $8 billion under management, and runs the firm’s IP investment practice based out of New York and London. Mr Holden has spent 18 years monetising IP assets from corporations, research centres and universities worldwide, and has generated over $1 billion of licensing and royalty income during this time. His experience has included senior positions at Panasonic (in Osaka, Japan); IPVALUE Management (in Palo Alto, CA); University Patents (in Westport, CT); and Invisible Hand LLC ( New York, NY) – a $50 million IP venturing fund that he founded and led. He holds post-doctorate, doctorate and undergraduate degrees from the United Kingdom and Japan, and is a senior fellow at Wharton.
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Bertram Huber Bertram Huber studied law in Muenster and Tuebingen, and obtained his doctorate in law from the University of Tuebingen. He began his professional career in 1978 at AEG-Telefunken AG. From 1983 to 1994 he headed the legal and patents department of ANT Nachrichtentechnik GmbH. He joined Robert Bosch GmbH in 1995. Since 2000 Dr Huber has been responsible for the global IP activities of the Bosch Group, which ranks among the world’s leading patent applicants. Dr Huber is active in a number of IP organisations and professional IP expert groups.
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David J Kappos David Kappos is vice president and assistant general counsel, intellectual property law, for IBM Corporation. Based in Armonk, New York, Mr Kappos directs IBM’s intellectual property law function, providing legal counsel over all facets of protecting and licensing IBM’s intellectual property assets and leading IBM’s engagement of intellectual property law policy issues. In particular, Mr Kappos is responsible for the management of IBM’s patent and trademark portfolios; protecting and licensing intellectual property (patents, copyrights, trademarks, know-how and technology) worldwide; and directing intellectual property law operations in relation to the research, services, consulting, computer systems, storage products, semiconductor and technology development, software, marketing and other groups, divisions and entities within IBM. In addition, Mr Kappos has responsibility for IP policy and coordination with IBM’s litigation and corporate development groups in matters relating to intellectual property. Mr Kappos serves on the board of directors of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Intellectual Property Owners Association and the International Intellectual Property Society. He is also the vice president of the Intellectual Property Owners Association. He has held various previous leadership positions in intellectual property law associations in Asia and the United States. He has spoken widely in Asia, Europe and the United States on intellectual property topics. Mr Kappos received his bachelor of science degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California Davis in 1983, and his law degree from the University of California Berkeley in 1990. He joined IBM in 1983 as a development engineer and has served as an intellectual property law attorney in IBM’s Storage Division and Litigation Group, as IP law counsel in the IBM Software Group, as assistant general counsel in IBM Asia/Pacific, IBM corporate counsel and as assistant general counsel prior to his current position.
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Sam Knight Sam Knight is a commercially oriented patent attorney and licensing executive with over 20 years’ IP experience, especially in monetising IP. Working at both corporate and product level, Mr Knight advises on IP strategy, IP marketing, IP valuation, IP negotiation, IP incentive schemes, IP sales, IP infringer chasing and enforcement through to litigation. Mr Knight trained and qualified in the defence/aerospace sector in London in the 1980s before moving to the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment at Malvern, one of Europe’s top electronics laboratories, doing patenting and international licensing. Now he works for QinetiQ Ltd as senior IP attorney, with a particular focus on IP monetisation, licensing and litigation. Mr Knight is qualified as a European patent attorney and a chartered patent agent, holds a BSc (Hons) in engineering and is an active member of the Licensing Executive Society. He has extensive experience of international licence and technology transfer agreements, IP aspects of acquisitions, divestments and joint ventures; IP rights valuations and marketing; and developing IP rights strategy at corporate and business level.
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Ron Laurie Ron Laurie is the chairman and managing director of Inflexion Point Strategy, LLC, an intellectual property investment bank founded in 2004 and based in Silicon Valley. Inflexion Point represents technology companies and institutional investors in the acquisition and sale of patent portfolios having strategic value and in the sourcing and execution of IP-intensive M&A transactions. Mr Laurie has worked in Silicon Valley for over 40 years, initially as a software engineer and then as a patent lawyer advising computer, communications, semiconductor, media and financial services companies on IP strategy, a subject he has taught at Stanford and Boalt (UC-Berkeley) law schools. Mr Laurie was a founding partner of the Silicon Valley offices of Skadden Arps (in 1998), Weil Gotshal & Manges (in 1993) and Irell & Manella (in 1988). The focus of his prior legal practice was on the strategic use of IP assets in complex business transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, technology spin-outs, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and he led IP teams in some of the largest technology deals ever done, worth over $50 billion. Mr Laurie is a registered patent attorney and has authored a number of landmark patents including the Priceline ‘reverse-auction’ patent, which was the first Internet business method patent in the US to attract national attention.
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Bruce A Lehman Bruce A Lehman practises law at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, DC. Concurrently, Mr Lehman is the chairman of the International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI), a non-partisan, non-profit organisation, based in Washington, DC, which promotes the creation of modern intellectual property systems and the use of intellectual property rights as a mechanism for investment, technology transfer and the creation of wealth in all countries of the world. From August 1993 to December 1998 Mr Lehman served as assistant secretary of commerce and US commissioner of patents and trademarks. As the Clinton administration's primary representative for intellectual property rights protection, he was a key player on these issues, both domestically and internationally. At the request of the president, he served concurrently in Autumn 1997 as acting chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which fosters and recognises the work of America's artistic and creative community. In 2006 Mr Lehman was honoured as one of 23 initial inductees to the newly created International IP Hall of Fame, a project sponsored by Intellectual Asset Management magazine. In 1994 The National Law Journal named Mr Lehman as its Lawyer of the Year. In 1997 public policy magazine National Journal named him as one of the 100 most influential men and women in Washington Mr Lehman holds both undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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Leo Longauer Leo Longauer is executive director and head of group intellectual property at UBS. Mr Longauer joined UBS in 2002 as head of the name rights group and was principally responsible for managing and advising on the legal aspects surrounding the implementation of UBS's single brand strategy. Since becoming the head of group intellectual property in 2006, his responsibilities have extended to all other IP aspects of the bank, including patents and copyrights. Prior to joining UBS, Mr Longauer spent six years at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, where he headed a trademark examination section. Mr Longauer holds a master of law degree from the University of Berne, Switzerland.
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Terry Ludlow Terry Ludlow founded Chipworks in 1992 to offer semiconductor and system reverse engineering services to companies wanting to build their competitive advantage and protect and grow the potential of their intellectual property. What began as a one-person company is now a world-class team of international technology and patent licensing professionals. Under Mr Ludlow’s leadership, Chipworks has grown to more than 130 employees with a global customer base that recognises Chipworks as an international technical services company. Headquartered in Ottawa, Chipworks has offices in Korea, Japan, Poland and Taiwan, with representation in Israel and other key manufacturing locations. Prior to starting Chipworks, Mr Ludlow founded Semiconductor Insights in 1989 and operated that company for three years. He had previously held a series of positions at Mosaid Inc, beginning in 1981 and ultimately managing Mosaid's Design Analysis Group. With over 25 years’ experience in the industry, Mr Ludlow is a frequently sought-out speaker (LES, Corporate Patent Congress, The Wall Street Transcript, Information and Technology Association of Canada), and has published numerous technical and IP-focused articles.
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Marcus Luepke Marcus Luepke is an experienced international trademark attorney. He practised trademark law for 12 years in Germany before joining Finnegan Henderson in 2006. Dr Luepke’s practice includes trademark clearance and prosecution, as well as counselling clients in managing and enforcing international trademark portfolios. He possesses broad expertise in selecting and internationally prosecuting and enforcing trademarks, with a focus on Europe, the United States, the Middle East, China and other Asian markets. He has a strong working knowledge of filing trademarks in the European Community, as well as under the Madrid Agreement and Protocol. Dr Luepke’s trademark work on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as his first-hand knowledge of both the firm and the corporate perspective, allow him to target and avoid the typical difficulties clients face when dealing with multi-jurisdictional and multi-cultural issues in their trademark practice. Before joining the firm, Dr Luepke served for seven years as a key member in the trademark department of German auto manufacturer BMW at its global headquarters in Munich. As senior trademark counsel, he handled BMW’s global trademark clearance and directed the company's trademark prosecution and enforcement in many of the world’s most important markets, including the United States, Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Focusing on China and other developing Asian markets, Dr Luepke led numerous anti-counterfeiting activities in close cooperation with investigators, enforcement agencies and other industry members. He was also instrumental in creating the Automotive Anti-counterfeiting Coalition Middle East, a strong deterrent to counterfeiting in the region. Immediately prior to joining Finnegan Henderson, Dr Luepke consulted as a contract trademark counsel for The Coca-Cola Company's Global Legal Center in Atlanta, Georgia, where he concentrated on the development and execution of global protection strategies, including the worldwide clearance and prosecution of the company's trademark. Dr Luepke has managed a wide variety of Internet trademark and domain name disputes in many jurisdictions. He is also experienced in negotiating global co-existence and licence agreements for a diverse range of products, including automotive, financial and clothing products, as well as food and beverage products. Dr Luepke speaks regularly on international anti-counterfeiting and other trademark topics of international relevance. He reads and speaks German, French and English fluently. He was a Buergenthal Scholar at The George Washington University Law School and a 2007 third-place recipient of the Finnegan Award for his research paper, “The Trademark Dilution Revision Act: A Comparison With the Dilution Concept Under European and German Law”.
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Daniel P McCurdy In May 2008 Dan McCurdy was named chairman of PatentFreedom LLC, an online community providing comprehensive information and networking capabilities to help operating companies and those assisting them to manage their interactions with non-practising entities (sometimes called “patent trolls”). Over time, PatentFreedom will expand its information and networking focus to fill other IP-related information needs faced by intellectual property professionals worldwide. From June 2001 to May 2008, Mr McCurdy was chief executive officer of ThinkFire, which provides intellectual property advisory services to many of the world’s leading technology companies and private equity firms. From March 2000 to June 2001, Mr McCurdy was president of Lucent Technologies’ intellectual property business. There, he managed 300 employees who generated more than $500 million in annual revenues from the licensing of 26,000 worldwide patents. From February 1999 to March 2000, Mr McCurdy was vice president of IBM Corporation, responsible for the creation of the IBM Life Sciences business unit. Prior to re-joining IBM in 1999, Mr McCurdy was vice president of corporate development for CIENA Corporation, serving on CIENA’s senior management committee and directing overall corporate acquisitions strategy. From 1982 to 1997, Mr McCurdy served in a variety of business and intellectual property management roles in IBM, including director of business development for IBM Research and IBM’s corporate manager of technology and intellectual property policy worldwide. Mr McCurdy received his BA summa cum laude from the University of North Carolina. He served on the Intellectual Property Policy Committee of the United States’ National Academies.
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Daniel McGavock Dan McGavock is a vice president and IP practice leader of CRA International, a business, financial and economics consulting firm with over 28 worldwide locations spanning 10 countries and four continents. CRA’s IP practice provides valuation, litigation support/expert testimony, transaction advisory, cross-border transfer pricing and business consulting services related to all types of IP and intangible assets. CRA’s IP business consulting practice provides top management with objective, fact-based advice regarding IP risks, opportunities and strategies to enhance shareholder value. Mr McGavock has specialised in the valuation and strategic management of IP for over 22 years. He has valued IP in a broad array of strategic, regulatory and transactional contexts, and has provided expert testimony on IP damages issues on over 50 occasions. Prior to CRA’s acquisition of InteCap in 2004, Mr McGavock served as InteCap’s president and as a member of its board of directors. He is also a registered CPA and currently serves as vice chairman of the Audit Committee of the Licensing Executives Society International.
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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 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 UK 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 UK.
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Shinjiro Ono Shinjiro Ono graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Engineering and Department of Industrial Chemistry (BS). In April 1970 he joined the Japan Patent Office. From 1978 to 1979, Mr Ono studied in the United States (Chemical Abstracts Service, American Chemical Society), and from 1982 to 1985 he served as first secretary of the Permanent Mission of Japan, Geneva. Subsequently, Mr Ono held several senior positions in the Japan Patent Office (JPO). From 1998 to 2001 he was director general of the Fourth (Chemical) Examination Department; and from 2001 to 2002 director general of the Appeals Department. Mr Ono was appointed deputy commissioner in June 2002 and remained in this post until October 2005. During his tenure as deputy commissioner, he helped to introduce significant improvements to the examination system in order to achieve timely, high-quality patent examination which is essential in order to transform Japan into an intellectual property-based nation. He also vigorously advanced trilateral (EPO, USPTO, JPO) cooperation in patent examination and the international harmonisation of IP systems to support the global acquisition of rights. Mr Ono joined YUASA and HARA as a partner patent attorney in October 2005. He has been a member of the board of advisers for the International Intellectual Property Institute, Washington DC, since February 2006.
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Ruud Peters Ruud Peters, a national of the Netherlands, was appointed chief executive officer of Philips Intellectual Property & Standards in 1999. He is responsible for managing Philips' worldwide IP portfolio creation, acquisition, counselling and value extraction activities, as well as for technical and formal standardisation activities. Mr Peters joined Philips IP&S in 1977, becoming director of licensing in 1990. He has participated on standards bodies such as ISO and ETSI, where he was active in the formulation of IP policies. Currently, Philips IP&S has about 500 people working in15 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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Ulf Petrusson Ulf Petrusson is the co-founder and director of the Centre for Intellectual Property (CIP), professor of law at Gothenburg University and co-founder and senior principal of CIP Professional Services AB. For the past 20 years Professor Petrusson has worked in the field of IP as both a scholar and a practitioner, advancing the cause for an inter-disciplinary focus on how to create wealth and welfare through intellectual property management in a knowledge economy. In his role as director, CIP has grown to be one of the leading development centres for knowledge-based business and Professor Petrusson has been recognized by Managing Intellectual Property magazine as one of the 50 most influential individuals in the field of IP worldwide. Professor Petrusson is directly responsible for the research programme at CIP, which blends new operational theories with the creation of IP management tools. In addition, he has primary responsibility for the intellectual capital management master’s programme and CIP doctoral candidates, as well as holding numerous board positions related to both academic and private organisations. Professor Petrusson holds master’s and doctoral degrees in law from Gothenburg University. He is the author of numerous articles and three books, the latest entitled The Role of University in the Knowledge Economy.
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Marshall Phelps As Microsoft's corporate vice president, IP policy and strategy, Marshall Phelps is responsible for setting the company’s global intellectual property strategies and policies. In addition, Mr Phelps interfaces with governments, other companies in the technology industry and outside institutions to broaden awareness of intellectual property issues. Before transitioning to his current position in 2006, Mr Phelps served as the deputy general counsel for intellectual property in Microsoft’s Legal & Corporate Affairs group, where he supervised Microsoft's intellectual property groups, including those responsible for trademarks, trade secrets, patents, licensing, standards and copyrights. He oversaw the company's management of its intellectual property portfolio, which comprises some 13,000 patents issued and more than 12,000 trademark registrations worldwide. Mr Phelps joined Microsoft in June 2003 after a 28-year career at IBM Corp, where he served as vice president for intellectual property and licensing. He was instrumental in IBM's standards, telecommunications policy, industry relations, patent licensing programme and intellectual property portfolio development. Also, he helped to establish IBM's Asia-Pacific headquarters in Tokyo and served as the company's director of government relations in Washington, DC. Upon retiring from IBM in 2000, Mr Phelps spent two years as chairman and chief executive officer of Spencer Trask Intellectual Capital Company LLC, which specialised in spin-offs from major corporations such as Motorola Inc, Lockheed Martin Corp and IBM. Mr Phelps holds a bachelor of arts degree from Muskingum College, a master of science degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a doctorate from Cornell Law School. He is an executive in residence at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and also serves on the board of visitors. He has also recently been asked to advise Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on IP matters. He was elected to the initial class of the Intellectual Property Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Vincent Pluvinage Vincent Pluvinage is general manager of strategic alliances and private equity for Intellectual Ventures. Prior to joining Intellectual Ventures, Dr Pluvinage was the chief executive officer (CEO) of IPValue Management Inc, an intellectual property service firm serving Fortune 500 companies. Prior to this position, Dr Pluvinage was CEO of Preview Systems, a digital rights management company. He built the company from its pre-financing stage to a public corporation listed on the NASDAQ exchange. Prior to Preview Systems, Mr Pluvinage conducted research at Bell Labs and in 1987 spun out the advanced digital processing