FINAL PROGRAM

MONDAY, MAY 23 

TIME             FUNCTION                                                      LOCATION   

15:00 -          REGISTRATION                                              Hotel le Plaza

20:00            (Judicial Participants & Conference Attendees)

18:00 -          WELCOME RECEPTION                                        Hotel le Plaza

20:00            (Judicial Participants & Conference Attendees)                      Gallery & Theater Foyer

TUESDAY, MAY 24

09:00 -          REGISTRATION & COFFEE                                          Hotel le Plaza

09:30             (Judicial Participants)                                            

09:30 -             JUDGES ONLY MEETING                                          Hotel le Plaza

11:30           (Judicial Participants)                                                                                   Memling Room

11:00 -          REGISTRATION                                              Hotel le Plaza

12:00            (Conference Attendees)                                                

12:00 -   LUNCHEON                                                    Hotel le Plaza

13:00            (Judicial Participants & Conference Attendees)                      Adolph-Max &

L’Esterel Rooms

13:15 -          OPENNING REMARKS & KEYNOTE ADDRESS                    Hotel le Plaza

14:00            (Judicial Participants & Conference Attendees)                      Theater

Address by:

Judge Randall R. Rader, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals

for the Federal Circuit, Washington, DC, United States

14:00 -          REMEDIES AND DAMAGES                                         Hotel le Plaza

15:30            (Judicial Participants & Conference Attendees)                      Theater

Moderator:

Dianne B. Elderkin, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Philadelphia, PA, United States

Speakers:
Judge Toshiaki Iimura, IP High Court, Tokyo, Japan

Judge Seong-soo Park, Suwon District Court, Suwon City, Korea (retired)

Judge Robert Van Peursem, Rechtbank`s- Gravenhage, The Hague, Netherlands

Judge T. John Ward, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
Marshall, TX, United States

15:30 -          COFFEE BREAK                                             Hotel le Plaza

16:00                                                                           

TIME             FUNCTION                                                      LOCATION   

16:00 -          OBVIOUSNESS AND THE ROLE OF SECONDARY               Hotel le Plaza

17:30             CONSIDERATIONS IN DECIDING OBVIOUSNESS                      Theater

(Judicial Participants & Conference Attendees)                         

Moderator:

Kevin H. Rhodes, 3M Innovative Properties Co., St. Paul, MN, United States

Speakers:

Judge Klaus Grabinski, Federal Supreme Court, Karlsruhe, Germany

Gerhard Hermann, Vossius & Partner, Munich, Germany

Eiji Katayama, Abe, Ikubo & Katayama, Tokyo, Japan

Judge Kathleen O’Malley, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit,
Washington, DC, United States

George Pappas, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, United States

Judge Shuhei Shiotsuki, Tokyo IP High Court, Tokyo, Japan

18:30 -          RECEPTION AND DINNER                                     Groot–Bijgaarden

21:30            (Judicial Participants, Conference Attendees & Guests)                 Castle                                 Busses depart at 18:00 from Mathilde Entrance of Hotel

WEDNESDAY, MAY 25

TIME      FUNCTION                                                             LOCATION

09:00 -           REGISTRATION & COFFEE                                          Hotel le Plaza

09:30

09:30 -          PATENTABLE SUBJECT MATTER                                Hotel le Plaza
11:30            (Judicial Participants & Conference Attendees)                      Theater

Speakers:

Judge Robin Jacob, Royal Courts of Justice, London, United Kingdom (retired)

J. Michael Jakes, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP,
Washington, DC, United States

Judge David Kitchin, Royal Court of Justice, London, United Kingdom

S. Sam Li, Jincheng Tongda & Neal Law Firm, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Judge Peter Meier-Beck, German Federal Supreme Court, Karlsruhe, Germany

Judge Pauline Newman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit,
Washington, DC, United States

Jochen Pagenberg, Bardehle Pagenberg, Munich, Germany

Judge Junli Xia, Supreme People’s Court, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

11:30 -          SWISS FEDERAL PATENT COURT                               Hotel le Plaza
11:45           (Judicial Participants & Conference Attendees)                      Theater

              Speaker:

              Judge Dieter Brändle, Handelsgericht Des Kantons Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

12:00 -  LUNCHEON                                                    Hotel le Plaza

13:00            (Judicial Participants & Conference Attendees)                      Adolph-Max &

L’Esterel Rooms

13:15 -          KEYNOTE ADDRESS                                             Hotel le Plaza

14:00            (Judicial Participants & Conference Attendees)                      Theater

Address by:

Hon. David J. Kappos, Director, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,

Alexandria, VA, United States

TIME             FUNCTION                                                      LOCATION   

14:00 -          DISCOVERY AND PRIVILEGE                                      Hotel le Plaza

15:30             (Judicial Participants & Conference Attendees)                      Theater

Moderator:

Filip De Corte, Cargill, Incorporated, Mechelen, Belgium

Speakers:

Judge Christopher Floyd, Patents Court, London, United Kingdom

Judge Els Herregodts, Court of Appeals, Brussels, Belgium

Judge Madame Marie-Claude Hervé, Tribunal De Grande Instance De Paris, Paris, France

Judge Kent A. Jordan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit,
Wilmington, DE, United States

15:30 -          COFFEE BREAK                                             Hotel le Plaza

16:00                                                                           Gallery & Theater Foyer

16:00 -          PATENT REFORM                                                 Hotel le Plaza

17:30            (Judicial Participants & Conference Attendees)                      Theater

Moderators:

Nigel Jones, Linklaters LLP, London, United Kingdom

Speakers:

Judge Zhipei Jiang, Professor of Law, Chief Justice of IPR Tribunal,
Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China (retired),
Senior Advisor of Fangda Partners, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Alastair Payne, Matheson Ormsby Prentice, Dublin, Ireland

Herbert C. Wamsley, Intellectual Property Owners Association,
Washington, DC, United States

17:30 -          RECEPTION                                                   Hotel le Plaza

19:00            (Judicial Participants & Conference Attendees)                      Gallery & Theater Foyer

19:00 -          CONFERENCE ADJOURNMENT