IIPLA Virtual IP Summit 2020
October 19 – 23, 2020. | 10:30 AM – 04:30 PM (GMT)
Conference Schedule
| Time (GMT 0) | Day 1 | October 19 |
| 10:30 AM -10:40 AM | Welcome Note |
| 10:40 AM – 11:30 AM | Session 1: Impact on IP business due to Covid 19 |
| Heather N. Bowen, Of Counsel at Sullivent & Fontanez PLLC, USA | |
| Heidi Brun, Owner and Managing Patent Attorney at Heidi Brun Associate, Israel | |
| 11:30 AM – 12:50 PM | Session 2: IP Licensing: From protecting IP to promoting partnerships |
| Chris Bowen, Counsel, IBM , USA | |
| Brent Chattam, U.S. Patent Attorney, Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd., Germany | |
| Tanya Garrett, Intellectual Property Counsel & Manager, Acument Global Technologies, USA | |
| Heather N. Bowen, Of Counsel at Sullivent & Fontanez PLLC, USA | |
| 12:50 PM – 01:15 PM | Networking Break |
| 01:15 PM – 01:45 PM | Session 3:Digital Economy: IP challenges and How to address them? |
| Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, Laureate, at Flip Ventures, USA | |
| 1:45 PM – 02:35 PM | Session 4: Developments and Management of your IP strategy: Collaboration, Protection, Litigation |
| Sanjay Kumar Patel – Founder- Patent & Trademark Attorney, India | |
| Dr. Maryam/ Kristina Nechaieva, Lawyer/ Legal Consultant – Mohammed Bani Hashem advocates & legal consultants, UAE | |
| 02:35 PM – 03:30 PM | Session 5: Building a Smart IP Portfolio to turn into a real company asset |
| Tyler Capson, Managing Director – Asia, EverEdge | |
| Time | Day 2 | October 20 |
| 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM | Session 6:Patents: Safeguarding your Intellectual Property Rights |
| Jose R. Mata, ESQUIRE, Partner, Adelante IP Law Group, USA | |
| Viren Soni, Director, Patent Counsel at CME Group, USA
Ryan N. Phelan, Patent Attorney, and Partner at Marshall Gerstein, USA |
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| 11:30 AM – 12:00 AM | Session 7: Explosion of Patent Litigation in China: How to Navigate the Regime Effectively |
| Xiaofan Chen, Partner Patent Attorney, AWA Asia | |
| 12:00 AM – 01:00 PM | Session 8: Patent Strategies: Manage IP To Drive Innovation & Pad The Bottom Line |
| Moderator: Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, Laureate, at Flip Ventures, USA | |
| Greg Y. Sato, Managing Counsel, Intel’s Patent Transactions Group,USA | |
| Milan Patel, Sr. Patent Counsel at Volvo Cars, USA | |
| 01:00 PM – 01:25 PM | Session 9: Impact on IP business due to Covid 19
Heather N. Bowen, Of Counsel at Sullivent & Fontanez PLLC, USA |
| 01:25 PM – 01:50 PM | Session 10:The interpreter couldn’t interpret so I stopped the deposition” – Working with interpreters during IP deps |
| Robert Holloway, Founder, Midwest Korean Translation | |
| 01: 50 PM -02:20 PM | Session 11: Do Patents Really Promote Innovation? |
| Deepali Paun, Founder-IP BRICKLAYER, India | |
| 02:20 PM – 02:50 PM | Session 12: Explosion of Patent Litigation in the Present Era |
| Roberto Dini, Intellectual Property Senior Consultant, Italy | |
| 02:50 PM -03: 30 PM | Networking Break |
| 03:30 PM – 04:25 PM | Session 13: Hatch-Waxman Best Practices: Reports from the Front |
| Jeffrey Alan Hovden, Partner, Robins Kaplan LLP | |
| Omar Jabri, Senior Director, Global Intellectual Property, Apotex Inc. | |
| Time | Day 3 | October 21 |
| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Session 14: Trademark squatting: Protecting Trademark across borders |
| NETHMIE RANASINGHE, Global Intellectual Property Manager at Gallinger Law PC, California, USA | |
| 11:00 AM -12:30 PM | Session 15: Trade Name vs. Trade Mark: What Could Happen When You Don’t Register? |
| Marcella Dominguez, Owner, Marcella Dominguez, PLLC | |
| Vera Zotova, Associate in the Intellectual Property and Information Technology practice, Borenius Russia | |
| 12:30 PM – 01:30 PM | Session 16: Between Patents or Trade secrets: How to Choose? |
| John A Stone, Partner DeCotiis, FitzPatrick, Cole & Giblin, LP, USA | |
| Christopher Scharff, Partner at McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd., USA | |
| 01:30 PM – 01:45 PM | Networking Break |
| 01: 45 PM- 02:15 PM | Session 17: Protecting your Designs, Brands, and Trademarks |
| Brad Van Pelt, Attroney, Banner Witcoff, USA | |
| 02:15 PM – 02:45 PM | Session 18: Brand protection and security challenges: KEEPING YOUR IP SECURE |
| Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, Laureate, at Flip Ventures, USA | |
| 02:45 PM – 03:15 PM | Session 19: IP Litigation in the Present Era |
| Dr. Roya Ghafele, Director, OxFirst, UK | |
| Time | Day 4 | October 22 |
| 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM | Session 20: Trademarks vs. Copyright Protection for Fictional Characters |
| Stephen J. Strauss, Shareholder, Buchalter Law Firm, USA | |
| Nick Guinn, Trademark and Patent Attorney, Gunn, Lee & Cave, P.C., USA | |
| Alexandra Arneri Partner at Cittone Demers & Arneri LLP, USA | |
| 11:45 AM- 12:45 PM | Session 21: AI and Copyright: Text and Data Mining |
| Prof. (Dr.) Tabrez Ahmad – Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean, School of Law, GD Goenka University, India | |
| David Oskandy – Former – General Counsel, Secretary, Corporate Citizenship Chair, and compliance lead at Avanade Inc., USA | |
| 12:45 PM – 01:40 PM | Networking Break |
| 01:40 PM – 02:10 PM | Session 22: Importance of spreading intellectual property awareness across an enterprise and best practices |
| Thomas Colson CEO Executive IP LLC, USA
Raymond Guarnieri l Executive IP, LLC, USA |
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| 02:10 PM – 02:40 PM | Session 23: Open innovation: Is this A shift to new IP models? |
| Dr. Roya Ghafele, Director, OxFirst, UK | |
| 02:40 PM – 03:00 PM | Session 24: IP licensing
Heather N. Bowen, Of Counsel at Sullivent & Fontanez PLLC, USA |
| Time | Day 5 | October 23
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| 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM | Session 24: Innovation and IP – Protecting Trade Secrets |
| Dr. Hans Joachim Fuchs Managing Partner, China brand Consulting, Germany | |
| Daniel Melman, Partner at Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz | |
| 12:00 PM- 12:30 pm | Session 26 : IP by Design by Muna Farid, Director at Hatch Consulting FZE (UAE) |
| 12:30 PM – 01:00 PM | Session 27: IP Challenges in Future of the Internet of things
Moderator: Prof. (Dr.) Tabrez Ahmad – Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean, School of Law, GD Goenka University, India Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, Laureate, at Flip Ventures, USA |
| 01:00 – 01:15 PM | Session 28 : How to file DIY Trademark the right way !
Marcella Dominguez, Owner, Marcella Dominguez, PLLC |
| 01:15 AM- 1:45 PM | Session 29: Aligning Patent Strategy with Corporate Goals
Geoffrey K. White General Counsel and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel SilcoTek Corporation, USA |
| 01: 45 – 02:25 PM | Networking Break |
| 02:25 PM – 02:50 PM | Session 30: Trademark squatting: Protecting Trademark across borders
NETHMIE RANASINGHE, Global Intellectual Property Manager at Gallinger Law PC, California, USA |
| 02:50 PM – 03:30 PM | Session 31: AI and Copyright: Text and Data Mining
Prof. (Dr.) Tabrez Ahmad – Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean, School of Law, GD Goenka University, India |
| 03:30 PM-04:30 PM | Session 32: Trade Secret Protection: Protecting Confidential Information in the Evolving Workplace: Strategies for Avoiding the Loss of Company Secrets
David Prange Partner at Robins Kaplan LLP, USA Christopher K. Larus Partner at Robins Kaplan LLP, USA |