LES Scandinavia Annual Conference

BUILDING  SUCCESS STORIES WITH IP AND SMART LICENSING

• Successful commercialization of IP     
• Smart IP strategies
• New businesses and legal pitfalls   

Sunday, 4 September

16:00 – 18:00 New business and licensing: Short presentations and a workshop

• SME opportunities and challenges in patent portfolio commercialization
  Mika Lehtinen, Vice President, IP Business Area at Berggren Group
• Start-up’s basic contract package
  Kaisa Fahllund, Partner, Head of IP & TMT at Hannes Snellman Attorneys Ltd
• SME’s licensing in practice
  Olli Pekonen, Director of IPR at Beneq Oy
• Start-up IPR: Last line of defence or waste of money?
  Riku Asikainen, Business Angel

Moderator: Sonja London, Head of Licensing Program Management at Nokia Technologies Ltd

18:00 – 19:30 Welcome reception

Monday, 5 September

9:00 –  9:30 Welcome by Kaisa Fahllund, Chair of the Organizing Committee and
Patricia Bunye, President of LESI 2016

9:30 – 10:15 Keynote: The meaning of “BRAND” in the 21st century
Bruce Oreck, former United States Ambassador to Finland (2009 – 2015) 10:15 –10:30 Coffee break

Internet of Things

10:30 – 11:15 Internet of Things – Is there a convergence winner?
Bruce Schelkopf, Chief IP Officer at ABB Corporation

11:15 – 12:00 Internet of Things and privacy in the cloud
Shelley McKinley, Associate General Counsel, Western Europe, at Microsoft Corporation 12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

Tools for successful merchandising

13:00 – 13:45 Merchandising of the Moomins: Building blocks of a smart merchandising business
Roleff Kråkström, Managing Director at Moomin Characters Ltd

13:45 – 14:30 Merchandising of the Angry Birds: From games to movies
Minna Raitanen, General Counsel at Rovio Entertainment Ltd

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 – 17:00 Mock mediation of a patent licence dispute

The mock mediation of an international patent license dispute between two fictitious parties, Grate University and HotAire Energy.

• Adam Rattray (Head – Information and External Relations Section,
  Arbitration and Mediation Center at WIPO, Switzerland, moderator role)
• Russell E. Levine (Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, US, mediator role)
• John Ritter (Director, Office of Technology Licensing at Princeton University, US)
• Pamela Cox (Partner at Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP, US)
• Mark Nell (Head of Licensing EMEA at Nagravision SA, Switzerland)
• Charles Valauskas (Partner at Valauskas Corder LLC, US)

17:00 Closing of Monday

18:00 – 18:30 Transportation to dinner

18:30 – 22:00 Dinner at Restaurant Kalastajatorppa

Tuesday, 6 September

8:30 – 9:00 Annual General Meeting of LES Scandinavia

Content distribution, licensing of TV formats

9:00 – 10:00 Key issues for the licensor and the licensee:

• Kristiina Werner-Autio, Program Director at MTV Oy
• Milla Bruneau, Operative Director at Yellow Film & TV Oy

10:00 – 10:15 Coffee break

New business – Panel

10:15 – 12:00 Commercial utilization of human data

• Wearable sensing and who really owns your physiological data?
  Heikki Jaakkola, Head of Technology at Clothing Plus Ltd
• Connected experience, data flow for user experience
  Erik Lindman, IP & Research Manager at Suunto Oy
• Human data business: How start-ups create data products?
  Timo Ahopelto, Entrepreneur and Investor at Lifeline Ventures
• Law & business ethics in the post-genomic era
  Sirpa Soini, Senior Legal Adviser at Helsinki Biobank, Academic Medical Centre of Helsinki

 Moderator: Christian Lindholm, CEO and Co-Founder of Koru, Vertical Accelerator

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 14:30 IP megatrends: IP & anti-trust – Panel

• Asian IP megatrends – A survival guide for China and the ASEAN
     Elliot Papageorgiou, Partner at Rouse Legal LLP (China)
• Global licensing strategies and anti-trust – Practical views
  Eeva Hakoranta, Head of Patent Licensing, Nokia Technologies
• European view on licensing and anti-trust
  Mikko Manner, Partner at Roschier Attorneys Ltd

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break

IP commercialization strategies

15:00 – 15:30 How to build a successful licensing program and other strategies for IP commercialization
Giustino de Sanctis, CEO at Vectis IP Ltd

15:30 – 16:00 IP commercialization – Licensor’s 360 view
Justin Delfino, Director IP and R&D Solutions at Evalueserve UK Ltd

16:00 – 16:30 Challenges in licensing business:
Sami Saru, Managing Director at Unwired Planet International Ltd

16:30 – 16:45 Discussion

16:45 – 17:00 Closing of conference