Patent Trolls

Patents have been essential to the business models of many firms for a long time. However, only in recent years there has been a renewed interest in how patent exploitation and enforcement may be used as an autonomous business model to generate revenues and competitive advantages.

Non-practicing entities (NPEs) purchase or acquire patents only to enforce them to generate revenues. Are NPEs patent trolls? Can companies be both? Is it bad or good for patent business?

PROGRAM:

Seminar is chaired by Secretary General Marja-Leena Mansala, IPR University Center

8.30 Registration and breakfast

9.00 Theory about Patent Trolls
Kelli Larsson, Hanken School of Economics

Kelli Larson is a doctoral candidate at the Accounting & Commercial law department at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki where she conducts research on intellectual property rights and innovation: the exploitation and enforcement of patent rights by non-practicing entities. Her research focuses specifically on the interaction of how companies, namely non-practicing entities, strategically use and enforce patent rights in business transactions, and how patent laws react to and may be influenced by such patent exploitation and enforcement.

10.00 In practice
Head of Patent Licensing Eeva Hakoranta, Nokia Corporation

Registration

Please register for the seminar by completing the online registration form no later than 22 April 2014. You will receive an automatic confirmation of registration to the email address you have given. You can only register one person at a time with the registration form.

Cancellations before 27.4.2014. After that 100 % fee applies.

HOX! Free seminar places for students are limited and for this brunch IPR University Center accept three students by registrating order.