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CIP Director, Bowman Heiden, recently participated in the Patents in Telecoms and IoT 2024 conference run by Robin Jacob and Lisa Penfold at University College London. Dr. Heiden spoke on the panel about EU SEP Regulation, providing a big-picture view of the role of economics in policy-making, the unique, collectively-ordered private model of SEP licensing, and why the global, collective nature of SEP licensing will likely make the proposed SEP regulation irrelevant in the IoT context.

We would like to thank all the participants for a successful CIP Roundtable 2024, in particular, our speakers Jonas Lindgren and William Mansfield for leading the discussion on IP & Sustainability and Andrew Gaule, Jard van Ingen, and Edward Bray for showing us the state-of-the-art in GenAI applied to business, technology, and IP management. We will have follow-up posts on each of their contributions shortly. Sustainability and GenAI will be the core themes that define the development of CIP activities into 2025, which will mark our 25th anniversary.

We were also happy to welcome the master’s students participating in ICM Advice and the ICM Certificate Program to meet and share their future plans with our CIP partners and advisors. With the pandemic and the changes to the ICM education, we have missed the strong interaction between the students and CIP activities in recent years, so we were excited to be able to gather everyone together this year!

Finally, we discussed CIP’s plans to grow globally through collaboration with new university and industry partners worldwide, building on our close partnership with UC-Berkeley in the U.S.

As Senior Counsel, Law Enforcement and Content Safety, you will tackle a range of cutting-edge matters arising from content on Pinterest, including issues relating to intermediary liability, content, and child safety issues. You’ll work with our Trust & Safety, Engineering, Product, Operations, and Public Policy teams to evaluate and ensure compliance with a dynamic and developing legal landscape governing user generated content.

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As Senior Counsel – Patent and Trademark you will be responsible for managing and protecting the company’s intellectual property assets, including patents and trademarks, and managing Pinterest’s program to protect third-party IP, including its IP notice-and-takedown program. You’ll work closely with cross-functional partners in Engineering, Product, Content, Trust & Safety, and Legal to develop and implement strategies to safeguard our inventions and brand-identity.

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The Center for Intellectual Property x innovation Policy (C-IP²⁾ at GMU is hosting the prestigious WIPO-U.S. Summer School on Intellectual Property this June 3-7, 10-14 for the seventh year. The 10-day virtual program is a great quick intro into U.S. intellectual property law which students, young professionals, entrepreneurs, and innovators find very useful for their studies and careers.

Law students (and possibly pre-law students) can receive credit and a WIPO certificate if they complete the program requirements (attendance is counted), but professionals also register for the course to join the sessions most valuable to their field.

Please apply here.

We are happy to announce the lineup of high-growth business technology (HTB) events in the first quarter of 2024, designed to ignite innovation and foster collaboration within the deep tech business sector!

Save the dates:

●       HTB Forum build-to-sell: 29 February, 17.00-18:00 CET (+ 1 hour optional)

●       HTB Conference “Global Perspectives”: 15 March, 9.00-12.15 CET

What to Expect:

The events will bring together industry leaders and esteemed international experts to explore various strategies aimed at leveraging intellectual property to fuel business success. Dive into insightful discussions and connect with our presenters during optional meet-the-speakers sessions.

Registration:

Participation is free and virtual, ensuring accessibility to participants from across the globe.Secure your spot for both events and gain access to new knowledge and insights that can shape the future of your business.

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Join the HTB community for regular updates and information tailored for decision-makers and IP professionals in the high-growth tech sector.

For more information about the agendas and featured speakers, visit the registration links above.

CIP is very happy to welcome IKEA to the CIP Partnership Program in 2024. We look forward to working with Carl Ervér and Olof Espmarker on the important mission to transform knowledge into wealth and welfare.

Please contact Bowman Heiden or Karla Soler Riba if you are interested in learning more about becoming a CIP partner.

CIP is very proud to announce that Ruud Peters and Suzanne Harrison will join David Teece and Bowman Heiden as co-Faculty Directors of the new ICM Global program. This international program, jointly run by CIP and the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership at Berkeley Haas, aims to build a world-class ICM Faculty of leading academic and industry actors globally.

Ruud Peters created one of the largest and most sophisticated IP & Standards operations in the world during his tenure as EVP & CIPO at Philips and continues to advise companies and governments on complex strategy and policy issues at the interface of technology, business, and IP. Suzanne Harrison is a pioneer in the field of ICM, having run a best-practices industry gathering and advised leading firms for more than two decades and authored several seminal books on the topic, including the Edison in the Boardroom series. We couldn’t be more excited to have them on-board

CIP Director Bowman Heiden will participate in the upcoming seminar on Feb. 29^th on “Standardisation: A Tool for Businesses & Society in the EU” hosted by ACLU at Lund University. In connection to the seminar, Dr. Heiden has also written a chapter for the forthcoming booklet on “The Relationship Between Standards and Intellectual Property” published by the European Intellectual Property Teachers’ Network and 4iP Council.

More about the event here.