[Ecommerce] WIPO Open Forum on the draft Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT)

[James Love]

http://www.wipo.int/meetings/2006/scp_of_ge_06/en/scp_of_ge_06_inf1.html

Open Forum on the draft Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT)
Geneva, March 1 to 3, 2006
PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Thursday, March 2, 2006
Friday, March 3, 2006

Wednesday, March 1, 2006

9.00 =96 10.00=09Registration
10.00 =96 10.15=09 Welcome Addresses

Dr. Kamil Idris
Director General
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
H.E. Ambassador Enrique Manalo
Chair of the WIPO General Assembly
=09 Theme I: Harmonization of Substantive Patent Law: Purpose, Approaches
and Limits
10.15 =96 10.35=09 International Patent Law Harmonization, Development and
Policy Space for Flexibility

Speaker:

To be confirmed

10.35 =96 10.55=09 The Rationale and Benefits of Patent Law Harmonization

Speaker:

Mr. Kenji Kamata
Member
Standing Committee on International Patent
Japan Intellectual Property Association
Tokyo

10.55 =96 11.25=09 Discussion
11.25 =96 11:40=09 Coffee Break
11.40 =96 12.00=09 International Patent Law Harmonization: The View of Smal=
l
and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)

Speaker:

Mr. Jonathan Zuck
President
Association for Competitive Technology
Washington, D.C.

12.00 =96 12.20=09 International Patent Law Harmonization and Development: =
The
Experience of the Republic of Korea

Speaker:

Mr. Daeshik Jeh
Director
Patent Examination Policy Team
Korean Intellectual Property Office
Daejon

12.20 =96 12.40=09 Patent Law Harmonization and the Draft SPLT

Speaker:

To be confirmed

12.40 =96 13.00=09 Discussion
13.00 =96 14.30=09 Lunch

Theme II: Subjects of Patent Law Proposed for Harmonization

14.30 =96 15.10=09 Prior Art-related Issues (definition of prior art, novel=
ty
and inventive step)

Speakers:

Ms. Anne Rejnhold J=F8rgensen
Head of Division
International Affairs
Danish Patent and Trademark Office
Taastrup

Mr. Carlos Correa
Director
Faculty of Law and Social Sciences
University of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires

15.10 =96 15.30=09 Discussion
15.30 =96 15.45=09 Treatment of Traditional Knowledge in the Definition of
Prior Art

Speaker:

Ms. Bego=F1a Venero
Chair
Intellectual Property Board
Peruvian Institute for the Defense of the Consumers, Competition and
Intellectual Property
Lima

15.45 =96 16.00=09 Discussion
16.00 =96 16.15=09 Coffee Break
16.15 =96 17.15=09 Disclosure of Origin of Genetic Resources, Including
Compliance with Prior Informed Consent and Benefit Sharing

Speakers:

Mr. Benjamin Zycher
Senior Fellow in Economics
Pacific Research Institute
California

Mr. Joshua Sarnoff
Assistant Director
Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic
Washington College of Law
American University
Washington, D.C.

Mr. Andr=E9 Bourgouin
VP Corporate Intellectual Property
IPSEN - SCRAS
Paris

Mr. Yin Xintian
Director General, Legal Affairs Department
State Intellectual Property Office
Beijing

17.15 =96 17.50=09 Discussion
Thursday, March 2, 2006

9.30 =96 10.00=09 Sufficiency of Disclosure (enabling disclosure, disclosur=
e
of prior art, best mode)

Speakers:

Mr. Carlos Correa

Mr. Tim Roberts
Council Member
The Chartered Institute of Patent Agents
London

10.00 =96 10.15=09 Discussion
10.15 =96 10.30=09 Coffee Break
10.30 =96 11.30=09 Exclusions from Patentability, Industrial Applicability =
and
Technical Effect

Speakers:

Mr. Graham Dutfield
Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow in Intellectual Property Law
Centre for Commercial Law Studies
Queen Mary University of London
London

Additional speakers to be confirmed

11.30 =96 12.00=09 Discussion
12.00 =96 12.40=09 Exceptions to Patent Rights

Speakers:

Mr. Sisule Musungu
Team Leader
South Centre
Geneva

Mr. Alain Gallochat
Adviser on Intellectual Property
Ministry of Higher Education and Research
Paris
Representative of the International Association for the Protection of
Intellectual Property

12.40 =96 13.00=09 Discussion
13.00 =96 14.30=09 Lunch
14.30 =96 15.10=09 Effective Mechanisms to Challenge the Validity of Patent=
s
(pre- and post-grant opposition, revision of the presumption of validity
of patents, etc.)

Speakers:

Mr. Walter Holzer
Patent Attorney
Sch=FCtz and Partners
Vienna

Additional speaker to be confirmed

15.10 =96 15.30=09 Discussion
15.30 =96 15.45=09 Coffee Break
=09 Theme III: Patents as a Source of Information and Innovation, Transfer
of Technology and Licensing Practices
15.45 =96 16.05=09  Accessing the Technology Disclosed in Patent Data and
Publications

Speaker:

Mr. G=E9rard Giroud
Principal Director
European and International Affairs
European Patent Office
Munich

16.05 =96 16.25=09 Freedom to Operate: Patent Landscapes

Speaker:

To be confirmed

16.25 =96 16.45=09 The Role of Patent Statistics

Speaker:

Mr. Dominique Guellec
Principal Administrator
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Paris

16.45 =96 17.00=09 Discussion
17.00 =96 17.40=09 Contractual Licenses and Transfer of Technology

Speakers:

Mr. Francesco Macchetta
Director, Intellectual Property
Bracco Imaging SpA
Milan

Additional speaker to be confirmed

17.40 =96 18.00

Discussion

Friday, March 3, 2006

=09 Theme IV: New Technologies and their Specificities
9.00 =96 10.00=09 Biotechnological Inventions: Patenting of Genes and Life
Forms, and the Impact of Patenting on Upstream Science

Speakers:

Mr. Joseph Straus
Director and Professor of Law
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law
Munich

Sir John Sulston
former Director
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Hinxton, Cambs

Ms. Nancy Linck
Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property and Trade
Biotechnology Industry Organization
Washington, D.C.

10.00 =96 10.30=09 Discussion
10.30 =96 10.45=09 Coffee Break
10.45 =96 11.45=09 Software Patents

Speakers:

Mr. Jonathan Zuck

Mr. Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
Senior Researcher
United Nations University-MERIT
Maastricht

Mr. Jules Theeuwes
University of Amsterdam & WRR
Amsterdam

11.45 =96 12.15=09 Discussion
12.15 =96 12.45=09 Patents and Standards

Speakers:

Mr. Rigo Wenning
World Wide Web Consortium
Sophia Antipolis

Mr. Beno=EEt Mueller
Director, Software Policy =96 Europe
Business Software Alliance
Brussels

12.45 =96 13.00=09 Discussion
13.00 =96 14.30=09 Lunch
=09Theme I continued
14.30 =96 14.50=09 Grace Period

Speaker:

Mr. Joseph Straus

14.50 =96 15.10=09 Discussion
=09 Theme V: The Interface of the Patent System with Other Areas of Public
Policy
15.10 =96 15.50=09 Patents and Public Health, including Second Use Patents

Speakers:

Mr. James Love
Director
Consumer Project on Technology
Washington, D.C.

Mr. Eric Noehrenberg
Director
Intellectual Property and Trade Issues
International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations
Geneva

15.50 =96 16.30=09 Discussion
16.30 =96 16.45=09 Coffee Break
16.45 =96 17.25=09 Scope of the Patent System and Alternative Models to
Promote Innovation

Speakers:

Mr. Leonardo Burlamaqui
Professor
Candido Mendes University
Rio de Janeiro

Mr. Jonathan Zuck

17.25 =96 17.40=09 Discussion
17.40=09 Closing


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