The CIP FORUM is CIP’s flagship event where partners, colleagues, alumni, and invited guests gather to address the key industry, university, and policy challenges of the transformation to a knowledge economy. The event has been held on seven occasions since 2001 with the last event on December 2020 (virtually) in Berkeley, CA. The focus of the event is on sharing innovative ideas, research, and practical experiences among global actors. A blend of theory and practice is employed to bridge the gap between strategy and policy and encourage critical reflection in a world where business and public policy are both in transition. The inclusion of local graduate students in the event allows the next generation to voice their opinions through the unfiltered lens of the beginner’s mind. A key goal of CIP FORUM is to transform the dialogue into action through new initiatives together with industry partners, academia, and policymakers that will be carried out and presented in the next event. This year’s event will a mix of in-person and online sessions with the option of going completely online depending on the coronavirus situation.
CIP FORUM 2020 was the 20th anniversary of the founding of CIP, so the theme of “A Brave New World” was chosen to focus on the IP consequences of the technical, economic, and geopolitical developments over the last 20 years and the predictions for the next 20 years (20/20 vision if you will). This 20-year milestone offered a unique opportunity to critically reflect on how far we have come and where we are heading using a broader time horizon.
Keynote
• Suzanne Harrison, Principal, Percipience
• Dan McCurdy, CEO, RPX
Panel
Moderator:
• Joff Wild, Editor, IAM Magazine
Panelists:
• Charlotta Ljungdahl, Head of IP, ABB
• Kent Richardson, CEO, RichardsonOliver Insights
• Keith Bergelt, CEO, Open Invention Network
• Ruud Peters, CEO, Peters IP Consultancy
Keynote
• David Teece, Professor, UC-Berkeley; Chairman and Principal Executive Officer at Berkeley Research Group
Panel
Moderator:
• Nicolas Petit, Professor, EUI
Panelists:
• Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google
• Rima Alaily, Deputy General Counsel — Competition Law Group, Microsoft
• Kirti Gupta, Vice President, Technology & Economic Strategy, Qualcomm
• David Teece, Professor, UC-Berkeley; Chairman and Principal Executive Officer at Berkeley Research Group
Chairperson:
• Ron Laurie, Executive Chairman & CIPO, InventionShare
Discussants:
• Jon Calvert, Partner – IP Advisory, Deloitte Corporate Finance
• Brian Hinman, Chief Innovation Officer, Aon Intellectual Property Solutions
• Keith Bergelt, CEO, Open Invention Network
• Ludo Pyis, Partner & Co-founder, Lanterna Capital
Description:
Transforming IP into a financial asset has been a consistent challenge, especially for patent-based assets. This session will explore the historical obstacles to IP finance, present a number of new solutions, and discuss the reasons for the current advancement in the field.
Chairpersons:
• Paul Michel, fm Chief Judge, CAFC
• Bowman Heiden, Co-Director, CIP
Discussants:
• Jelani Odlum, Program Manager, Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property
• Dave Kappos, Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
• Bruce Berman, CEO, Brody Berman Associates; Chairman, the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding
• Demi Ibrahim, Medical Device Research Intern, RPX Corporation
Description:
Intellectual property education has traditionally been taught as a specialty area of the law. However, as national competitiveness in the knowledge economy relies heavily on the creation, management, and commercialization of IP, the knowledge of IP in society across multiple actors must also increase. This session will take a critical look at the need to diversify IP education, including who needs to know about IP, what they need to know, and how it should be taught based on a broad set of educational experiences.
Chairperson:
Kent Richardson, CEO Richardson Oliver Insights; Partner ROL Group
Discussants:
• Nigel Swycher, CEO, Cipher
• Cassandra Derham, Senior IP attorney, Head of Technical IP, Amadeus Intellectual Property
• Jard van Ingen, CEO, and Co-Founder, Focus
Description:
The session will discuss how analytics is transforming the profession of IP management in an era of global, digital transformation. With diverse backgrounds, the panelists will cover the following topics: (1) How IP analytics have been brought into business decisions; (2) The need for adaptability of those in the IP management industry; (3) How introducing analytics is as much about change management as it is about the underlying analytics; (4) How IP analytics provides a competitive advantage to those able to incorporate them into their decision making process. For those managing IP, or new to the field, the panel session will provide guidance on how to adapt to the changing landscape presented by IP analytics.
Chairpersons:
• Tim Smith, Principal, Rouse
• Chris Bailey, Principal, Rouse
Discussants:
• Maikke van Velzen, Head of IP Portfolio management, Philips
• Peter Fiske, Executive Director – National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI); Director, Water-Energy Resilience Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
• Jeremiah Chan, Director and Associate General Counsel at Facebook; Patent Public Advisory Committee Member, USPTO; DEI Advocate
• Sandra K. Nowak, Chief IP Counsel, Consumer Business Group, 3M Innovative Properties Company
• Ben Wang, Managing Director, Pacific Viewpoint Group
Description:
The challenges of diversification, digitalization, and globalization create new requirements and challenges for the IP team of the future. This session will take its starting point in the direction that in-house IP teams are heading as we enter this decade and what forces are driving this. This situation will be discussed from three perspectives: (1) internal forces within the business; (2) the forces acting on the IP service provider market, such as deregulation and disintermediation; and, finally (3) forces external to the business such as geopolitical, macroeconomic and technological forces.
Chairperson:
• Robert Taylor, Owner, and Founder, RPT Legal Strategies
Discussants:
• Gary Lauder, Managing Director, Lauder Partners LLC
• Jonathan Barnett, Professor, Gould School of Law, USC
• Earl Bright, President, and General Counsel, ExploraMed Development
• Jeanne Suchodolski, Counsel, US Navy Office of General Counsel
• Matteo Sabattini, Director, IPR Policy, Ericsson
Description:
From the earliest days of our nation, entrepreneurs and inventors have been among the iconic heroes that defined our country and continuously reinvigorated our economy, often challenging entrenched incumbents by being more flexible and nimbler, and more dedicated to their new ideas. The US economy, for most of our history, has been the embodiment of the “gales of destruction” envisioned by Joseph Schumpeter. In the last 10-15 years, the ability of entrepreneurs to challenge incumbents has declined, especially in the electronic industries, but also in medical devices and few other areas dominated by entrenched monopolies and oligopolies, and with that decline, the interest of those who invest in high-risk technologies and the entrepreneurs who would pursue them has also declined. The causes and potential mitigations for this are complicated and sometimes obscure. The panel will bring broad and diverse perspectives to explore these phenomena.
Chairpersons:
• Michael Hatrick, Group Director IP Strategy & Portfolio, Volvo Group
• Linus Eklund, Group Director, Patents, Volvo Group
Description:
For IP management to play a key strategic role in driving a firm’s business goals, it must be both business-focused and proactive. This session will describe the journey to accomplish this goal at Volvo Group.
Chairperson:
• Gustav Brismark, Owner, Kazehara; fm CIPO, Ericsson
Discussants:
• Ruud Peters, CEO, Peters IP Consultancy BV
• Giustino de Sanctis, CEO and Founder, Aliante
• Luke McElroy, Senior Vice President, Avanci
• Mattia Fogliacco, CEO, Sisvel
Description:
With the explosion of digital services and multi-technology products across all sectors, the associated patent exposure has increased dramatically. This session will discuss how we might overcome historical licensing challenges and build win-win platforms that incentivize participation by both licensees and licensors.
Chairperson:
Keith Bergelt, CEO, Open Invention Network
Discussants:
• Karen Copenhaver, Counsel, Linux Foundation
• Fred Mau, Intellectual Property Counsel, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing, North America
• David Levine, VP, Assistant General Counsel, Red Hat
• Roger Shang, Senior Director, Alibaba
• Audrey Plantureux, Intellectual Property Manager, OVH
Description:
The digitization of industry over the past 20 years has turned open source into a strategic activity that impacts the business decisions of nearly all firms in one way or another. This session will chart the rise of open source and discuss its role in the future development of products and services across multiple sectors.