LCII -TILEC Conference: The Future of Open and Collaborative Standard Setting

Liège Competition and Innovation Institute

LCII-TILEC Conference
Innovation, Research and Competition in the EU:
The Future of Open and Collaborative Standard Setting
Brussels, 29-30 May 2017
 
 
 
Day 1 - 29 May 2017
 
13:00-13:30: Registration
13:30-13:45: Welcome address
 
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
 
13:45-14:45* : Klaus GRABINSKI, Judge, German Supreme Court
Patent Rights and Modern Technology – What is the Deal?
 
14:45-15:15: Coffee Break
 
SESSION 1
 
15:15-15:45*: Heiden BOWMAN, Professor, University of Gothenburg; Director, Center for Intellectual Property
Patent Holdout: Circumstantial, Systematic, Systemic
15:45-16:15* Florian SCHUETT, Professor, Tilburg University
Repeated Interaction in Standard Setting
16:15-16:45*: Nicolas PETIT,   Professor, University of Liege
FRAND: Rules v Standards
 
16:45-17:15: Coffee Break
 
ROUNDTABLE 1: SEP Licensing for 5G – Prospects and Guidance for Stakeholders (17:15-18:45*):
 
Chairman: Nicolas PETIT, Professor, Univeristy of Liege
Ian CORDEN, Director, PLUM consulting
Joseph FARRELL, Professor, Univeristy of California at Berkeley
Patrick HOFKENS, Director IPR Policy, Ericsson 
Valérie HAMELIN, Legal Counsel IP and Lincesing, Orange
Michael KÖNIG, Acting Head of Unit, DG GROW, European Commission
 
Day 2- 30 May 2017
 
09:00-09:30: Coffee Break
 
SESSION 2
 
9:30-10:00*: Shivaram DEVARAKONDA, Professor, Tilburg University
Patent Litigation in the Telecommunications Sector
10:00-10:30*: Justus BARON, Researcher, Northwestern University
The Causal Effect of SEPs on Innovation in Standards
10:30-11:00*: Stephen HABER, Professor, Stanford University
The Fallacies of the Patent HoldUp Theory
 
 
11:00-11:30: Coffee Break
 
ROUNDTABLE 2: Global Competition Amongst Standard Setting Organizations (11:30-13:00*)
 
Chairman: Pieter VAN CLEYNENBREUGHEL, Professor, University of Liege
Alfred CHAOUAT, Senior Vice President, Technicolor 
Ashok GANESH, Director Innovation, CEN-CENELEC
Stephen HABER, Professor, Stanford University
Yann MÉNIÈRE, Chief Economist, European Patent Office
  
13:00-14:00: Lunch
 
SESSION 3
 
14:00-14:30*: Ruddi BEKKERS, Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology
Discrimination against Foreigners in the Patent System: Evidence from Standard-Essential Patents
14:30-15:00*: Axel GAUTIER, Professor, University of Liege
SSPPU and Component Licensing: Why 1$ is not 1$
 
15:00-15:30: Coffee Break
 
SESSION 4 
 
15:30-16:00*: Agnieszka JANCZUK-GORYWODA, Assistant Professor, Tilburg Law School; Research Coordinator of   Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC)
The Evolving Legal Framework for EU endorsed Standards
16:00-16:30*: Bjorn LUNDQVIST,‎Associate Professor of Law, Stockholm University
Big Data and Standard Setting - Big Challenges
16:30-17:00*: Raphael DE CONINCK, Vice President, CRA
Transparency, Predictability, and Efficiency of   SSO-based Standardization and SEP Licensing
 
KEYNOTE ADDRESS 
 
17:00-18:00* Joseph FARRELL, Professor of Economics, University of Berkeley
Standard-essential patents: private business problem or public policy problem?
 
18:00-18:15: Bernard VANBRABANT, University of Liege
Closing Remarks
 
Slots marked with an * include a Q/A session for one-third of the allocated time.

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