Baker Botts in partnership with Concurrences and Oxera invite you to join our second online edition of IP & Antitrust: Hot Issues. The program will consist of two panel discussions that will run from Tuesday 7 to Wednesday 8 June 2022.

Panel 1 - Tuesday 7 June 2022

SEPs: Is there a Need to Review the Balance between Intellectual Property and Antitrust Priorities?

The panel will focus on the announced EU Commission's framework for licensing, litigation, and remedies of standard-essential patents (SEPs) and regulatory initiatives in other jurisdictions.

Keynote: Pierre Regibeau, Chief Economist, DG COMP, Brussels

Panelists:

• Jonathan Barnett, Professor, Gould School of Law at University of Southern California
• Giovanni Napolitano, Director, Intellectual Property and Competition, World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva
• Maureen Ohlhausen, Partner, Baker Botts, Washington D.C.
• Michael Schloegl, Head of IP SEP, General IP Counsel RO, Continental Frankfurt

Moderator: Avantika Chowdhury, Partner, Oxera, London

Click here to view the post event synthesis of the panel. 

Panel 2 - Wednesday 8 June 2022

FRAND and SEPs Litigation

The panel will discuss dispute-related issues associated with the licensing of SEPs, including main developments in Germany, the U.S. and other key jurisdictions, ASIs, and the future of SEP litigation.

Keynote: Christine Wilson, Commissioner, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Washington D.C.

Panelists:

• Jay Jurata, Partner, Orrick, Washington D.C.
• Michael L. Kelley, Partner, Axinn, Washington D.C.
• Florian Mueller, Founder, Foss Patents, Munich
• Renato Nazzini, Professor, King’s College London
• Gunnar Niels, Partner, Oxera, Oxford

Moderator: Paul Lugard, Partner, Baker Botts, Brussels

Click here to view the post event synthesis of the panel. 

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