Second Annual Conference on the Future of Standard Essential Patents and FRAND Licensing.

The conference will take place on :

Tuesday 26 november 2019

from 14:30 à 18:00,

In the offices of cabinet Allen & Overy,

52 avenue Hoche, 75008 PARIS

The final programme is as follows:

o Roundtable 1: Review of the recent FRAND case-law (14:30-16:00)

This roundtable will discuss the recent decisions concerning (F)RAND issues, by comparing and contrasting the approaches taken to various issues in a number of jurisdictions.

The speakers are:

Hon. Edger Brinkman – Senior Judge, The Hague

Ryan Yagura – O'Melveny Myers, Los Angeles

Qishan Zhao – Lexfield, Beijing

Richard Vary – Bird & Bird, London

Volkmar Henke – Eisenführ Speiser, Hamburg

Moderator: David Por – Allen & Overy, Paris

o Roundtable 2: Different FRANDs for different sectors and business models, and how can they be determined? (16:30-18:00)

A large part of the FRAND debate, during the last decade, has focussed on the particular sector of handheld devices (smartphones and tablets), and on the particular technology of radio communication. As technology is evolving, it becomes more and more apparent, however, that FRAND questions arise in new sectors, whose underlying business models and economic structures differ from that of handheld devices.

This roundtable explores whether and how these different economic structures and licensing practices impact the way in which FRAND issues are to be approached, be it in terms of ways to check essentiality, identity of the parties involved, terms of the license, etc. The roundtable will also discuss, against this background what role antitrust authorities should play in regulating the sector.

The speakers are:

Brice Allibert – Commission Européenne – DG Comp

Yoshiaki Kodachi – Senior Director for Intellectual Property – JETRO

Philippe Lanet – Licensing Director – Orange

Mattia Fogliacco – CEO – Sisvel

Philippe Cassagne – Licensing Director – Thales-Gemalto

Max Olofsson – VP European Market – Avanci

Georg Kreuz – Chief IP Counsel Europe - Huawei

Moderator: Eric Stasik – Founder and Director – Avvika AB

The conference will be followed by a cocktail.