65th IP Conference: Concurrent Sessions - Track 2 | UIC Law

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UIC Law's 65th Annual IP Law Conference presented 17 sessions on the some of the most exciting and important developments in the field of IP. The following sessions represent track 2 of the conference's concurrent sessions.
Learn more about the IP Conference at ipconference.law.uic.edu.
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00:00 - 2A: VACCINES, IP & GLOBAL EQUITY
Topics include the current of vaccine-waiver negotiations; limitations of compulsory-license legal provisions; IP in vaccine rollouts to developing countries; TRIPs and global equity; and shaping the IP system to meet societal needs in a pandemic.
Featuring:
- Moderator/Panelist: Gwilym Roberts, Chairman, Kilburn & Strode LLP
- Professor Sapna Kumar, Co-Director, Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Houston Law Center
- Bhanu Sadasivan, Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery
- Corey Salsberg, Vice President, Global Head IP Affairs, Novartis
- Antony Taubman, Director, Intellectual Property Division, World Trade Organization
- Professor Peter Yu, Director, Center for Law & Intellectual Property, Texas A&M University School of Law
1:17:50 - 2B: FEDERAL CIRCUIT IN REVIEW
Topics include procedure and structure in patent institutions-the impact of Arthrex; discretionary denials under NHK-Fintiv; avoiding the PTAB via forum selection; and Bio-Rad v. ITC and ownership disputes in patent challenges-and patents and health-Hatch-Waxman developments and the PTAB’s impact on drug patents and generic entry; and GSK v. Teva and skinny labeling.
Featuring:
- Moderator/Panelist: Professor Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Texas A&M University School of Law
- V. James Adduci, Partner, Adduci Mastriani & Schaumberg LLP
- Tiffany D. Gehrke, Partner, Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP
- Laura Lydigsen, Partner, Crowell & Moring LLP
- Professor Adam Mossoff, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
- Stefani Smith, Partner, Tensegrity Law Group
2:27:58 - 2C: STANDARD ESSENTIAL PATENTS
Topics include anti-suit injunctions: time for a global FRAND tribunal?; FRAND/licensing in the value chain; European SEP and FRAND developments; and SEPs and connected vehicle supply chains.
Featuring:
- Moderator/Panelist: Cordula Schumacher, Partner, Arnold Ruess
- Kenneth Adamo, Owner, Law Office of Kenneth R. Adamo
- Detlef von Ahsen, Partner, Kuhnen & Wacker
- Professor Jorge Contreras, University of Utah College of Law
- Dave Djavaherian, President, PacTech Law
- Steven Geiszler, U.S. Chief Intellectual Property Litigation Counsel, Huawei Technologies
3:45:01 - 2D: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Topics include how IP offices view AI; WIPO’s AI initiatives; computational antitrust; implications of EU digital regulation on AI activity; and potential practical examples of when it matters when a human vs. AI was involved in an innovation/use.
Featuring:
- Moderator/Panelist: Professor Simon Chesterman, Senior Director of AI Governance, AI Singapore, National University of Singapore
- Yi Fang, Legal Director, Nreal
- Kate Gaudry, Partner, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Jerry Ma, Director of Emerging Technology, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Professor Peter Picht, Universität Zürich
- Professor Thibault Schrepel, Assistant Professor, VU Amsterdam University
- Ulrike Till, Director, IP and Frontier Technologies Division, World Intellectual Property Organization
5:11:46 - 2E: COMPETITION
Topics include antitrust/IP in the Biden Administration: what can we expect?; trademark enforcement in online marketplaces: lessons from 1-800 Contacts; pharmaceutical antitrust issues: what’s next for pay-for-delay and beyond?; antitrust fines in copyright license negotiations: is this a trend?; and content and competition: global platform liability laws and their impact on the future of online speech.
Featuring:
- Moderator/Panelist: Suzanne Munck, Counsel, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
- Carlos Aboim, Partner, Licks Attorneys
- Tobias Hahn, Partner, Hoyng Rokh Monegier
- Milan Kristof, Référendaire, Court of Justice of the European Union
- Michele C. Lee, Assistant General Counsel, Pinterest
- Anupama Sawkar, Special Counsel for Intellectual Property, U.S. Federal Trade Commission