SEPs – what should the EU do?

How should the EU facilitate the licensing of SEPs? This seminar addresses the challenges that SEP licensing currently faces in the EU and beyond and the means by which the EU could seek to resolve the issues through its policy actions. It evaluates the current initiatives put forward and considers how the European Commission, national courts and the CJEU can facilitate the licensing of SEPs in a way that secures innovators incentives to innovate and effective access to SEPs by implementers.

PROGRAM

17.00 – 17.05 Opening of the seminar
Director Juha Vesala, IPR University Center

17.05 – 17.25 A Policy Governance Framework for SEP Licensing – Private vs. Public Ordering
Co-Director Bowman Heiden, Center for Intellectual Property, CIP

17.25 – 17.45 Anti-suit injunctions
Professor Jorge L. Contreras, University of Utah

17.45 – 17.55 Break 

17.55 – 18.15 Approach of German courts
Presiding Judge Dr.  Matthias Zigann, Regional Court of Munich I

18.15 – 18.35 Prepared comments to all three presentations
Licensing Executive Sonja London, Nokia 
Chief IPR Policy Manager Steve Faraji, AUDI

Presenters’ responses 

Questions and comments from the audience and replies of presenters

19.00 Closing of the seminar