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.