Roundtables

EPIP 2024 will host 5 plenary roundtables, featuring the great variety of expertise, perspectives and topics that characterize EPIP conferences.

Thursday 12 September 2024, 9.45 am

1. Perspectives from Economists at IP Offices

Thursday 12 September 2024, 5.00 pm

2. Blurred lines: data governance, data ownership and intellectual property rights

Friday 13 September 2024, 9.00 am

3. EPIP meets policymakers

Friday 13 September 2024, 10.15 am

4. Views from Intellectual Property Judges

Friday 13 September 2024, 11.45 am

5. Geographical indications between competitiveness and sustainability: challenges and opportunities

Wednesday 11 September 2024, 4.20 pm

UIP-SPONSORED ROUNDTABLE: EPIP meets local innovators

Friday 13 September 2024, 11.45 am

SIB-SPONSORED ROUNDTABLE - UPC litigation scenarios: the tools of the new court for an effective enforcement of (and defense from) patent rights

Roundtable 1

 Perspectives from Economists at IP Offices

Thursday 12 September 2024, 9.45 am

Chair: Nicola Searle – Senior Lecturer, Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Goldsmiths University of London

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Round 1: patents
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Carsten Fink

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Andrew Toole

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Emilie Gallois

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Round 2: trademarks and copyrights
  • Nathan Wajsman – Chief Economist, European Union Intellectual Property Office
  • Brent Lutes – Chief Economist, U.S. Copyright Office
  • Bernard Ong – Group Director of Policy and Engagement at the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS)
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Nathan Wajsman

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Brent Lutes

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Bernard Ong

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Roundtable 2

 Blurred lines: data governance, data ownership and intellectual property rights

Thursday 12 September 2024, 5.00 pm

Chair: Tanya Aplin – Professor of Intellectual Property Law, King’s College London

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  • Martin Kretschmer – Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of CREATe, University of Glasgow
  • Niva Elkin-Koren – Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
  • Maria Savona – Professor of Applied Economics, LUISS University, Rome; Professor of Economics of Innovation, SPRU, University of Sussex
  • Luis Aguiar – Associate Professor of Management and Economics of Digital Transformation in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Zurich, Switzerland
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Martin Kretschmer

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Maria Savona

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Niva Elkin-Koren

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Luis Aguiar

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Roundtable 3

EPIP meets EU policymakers

Friday 13 September 2024, 9.00 am

Chair: Harrie Temmink, Head of Service “Intellectual Property in the Digital World”, Observatory on Infringements of IP Rights, EUIPO

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  • Brando Benifei – Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), Rapporteur of the AI Act
  • Kamil Kiljański – Head of Unit, DG GROW.C.4 Intangible Economy
  • Sharon Israel – USPTO, Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs
  • Rita Wezenbeek – Director, DG CNECT.F – Platforms Policy and Enforcement
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Brando Benifei

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Sharon Israel

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Kamil Kiljański

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Roundtable 4

Views from Intellectual Property Judges

Friday 13 September 2024, 10.15 am

Chair: Virginia Melgar – EUIPO

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Virginia Melgar

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Ingeborg Simonsson

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Richard Arnold

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Maria José Costeira

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Zane Pētersone

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Roundtable 5

Geographical indications between competitiveness and sustainability: challenges and opportunities

Friday 13 September 2024, 11.45 am

Chair: Irene Calboli – Regent Professor of Law, Texas A&M University

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Irene Calboli

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Marie Paule Rizo

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Raffaella Alia

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Katarina Kompari

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Flavio Innocenzi

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Dev Gangjee

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EPIP meets local innovators

Wednesday 11 September 2024, 4.20 pm

Chair: Andrea Piccaluga Professor of Innovation Management, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa

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  • Gisella Di Domizio – Product Costing Improvement, Claim and Patent Manager at Dumarey Flowmotion Technologies srl 
  • Giacomo Tazzini – CEO, Erre Quadro
  • Paolo Bacci – Owner, Paolino Bacci Srl
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Giacomo Tazzini

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Paolo Bacci

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SIB-SPONSORED ROUNDTABLE

UPC litigation scenarios: the tools of the new court for an effective enforcement of (and defense from) patent rights

Friday 13 September 2024, 11.45 pm

Chair: Magali Contardi Post-doctoral Researcher in IP Law, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa

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Magali Contardi

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  • Mario Pozzi – SIB (Società Italiana Brevetti) LEX
  • Davide Rondano – SIB (Società Italiana Brevetti)
  • Stefano Baracco – Executive Intellectual Property Manager, Piaggio Group
  • Federica Canu – IP expert, ENEL Group 
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Mario Pozzi

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Stefano Baracco

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Davide Rondano

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Federica Canu

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