How Should Standard-Essential Patents (SEP) be Regulated in Europe?

Program

13:30-13:40 Opening words
Tuomas Mylly, Professor, Director of  IPR University Center

13:40-14:10 Implications of the EU Commission’s SEP proposal on the current EU competition law framework for SEP enforcement and licensing
Juha Vesala, Dr., University Lecturer, Director of IPR University Center

14:10-14:40 Empirical evidence on digital marketing of patent licensing programs
Docent, Researcher Jussi Heikkilä & PhD Reseracher Gülfem Özmen, LUT University

14:40-15:00 Coffee break

15:00-15:40 Position Statement of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition on the Commission’s SEP Proposal
Senior Research Fellow, Dr. Beatriz Conde Gallego, and Research Fellow, J.S.M. (Stanford) Peter R. Slowinski

15:40-16:20 Panel Discussion

Chair: Tuomas Mylly (IPR University Center)
Panelists:
Minna Aalto-Setälä (Finnish Chamber of Commerce)
Sonja London (TactoTek)
Juha Vesala (IPR University Center)
Jussi Heikkilä (LUT University)
Beatriz Conde Gallego (Max Planck Institute)
Peter R. Slowinski (Max Planck Institute)
Teemu Soininen (Nokia Technologies)

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Seminar is part of the StandardEdge project