Veranstaltungen

Programme

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Wednesday 30 May 2018
07:30 - 09:00 hrs	Registration & light breakfast
09:00 - 09:10 hrs	Welcome Alberto Casado (Vice-President Patent Granting Process, EPO)
Part I: The current situation on patenting AI Moderators: Rob Sterne (Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, US) Grant Philpott (Chief Operating Officer ICT, EPO)
09:10 - 10:15 hrs	Keynote 1 AI inventions and the Fourth Industrial Revolution Keynote speakers: Clare Dillon (Clare Dillon Consulting, IE) Yann Ménière (Chief Economist, EPO) Chair of Q&A session: Rob Sterne (Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, US)
10:15 - 11:00 hrs	Panel discussion 1 General strategies for protecting AI inventions Chair of the panel: Rob Sterne (Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, US) Panellists: Herbert Zech (University of Basel, CH) Keith Bergelt (Open Invention Network, US) Heinz Godddar (Boehmert & Boehmert, DE)
11:00 - 11:30 hrs	Coffee
11:30 - 12:30 hrs	Keynote 2 How does the EPO deal with the challenges of AI in patents? Keynote speaker: Koen Lievens (Director Operations, EPO) Dialogue: Christian Platzer (Director Operations, EPO) Margarethe Zmuda (Ericsson, SE) Claudia Schwarz (Schwarz + Baldus, DE)
12:30 - 13:15 hrs	Panel discussion 2 Challenges in drafting patent applications for AI-related inventions Chair of the panel: Grant Philpott (Chief Operating Officer ICT, EPO) Panellists: Clare Dillon (Clare Dillon Consulting, IE) Andrea Perronace (Jacobacci & Partners Spa, IT) Michelle Holoubek (Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, US) Benjamin Bai (Ant Financial Services Group/Alipay, CN)
13:15 - 14:30 hrs	Buffet lunch
Part II: Post-grant aspects of AI patents, ownership & ethical considerations Moderator: Grant Philpott (Chief Operating Officer ICT, EPO)
14:30 - 15:15 hrs	Panel discussion 3 Post-grant aspects of AI-related patents Chair of the panel: Heli Pihlajamaa (Director Patent Law, EPO) Panellists: Rob Sterne (Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, US) Hideki Takaishi (Nakamura & Partners, JP) Matthias Schneider (Audi, DE)
15:15 - 15:45 hrs	Coffee
15:45 - 16:45 hrs	Panel discussion 4 Ethical and societal considerations in relation to AI patented inventions Chair of the panel: Heli Pihlajamaa (Director Patent Law, EPO) Panellists: Peter Blok (University of Utrecht, NL) Clara Neppel (IEEE, Vienna, AT) Noam Shemtov (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
16:45 - 17:00 hrs	Closing words Benoît Battistelli (President, EPO)
17:00 - 18.30 hrs	Cocktail