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CIP FORUM 2025 – registration open now!

We are very happy to announce that registration is now open for our 25th Anniversary event, CIP FORUM 2025, which will held in Gothenburg Sweden on September 29-30. Information on the draft program, venues, and recommended hotel are available. Further announcements of confirmed speakers and specific sessions will be forthcoming shortly. Limited sponsorship opportunities are also available, so please contact us if you are interested to collaborate and support this milestone event.

MORE INFO AND REGISTRATION HERE

The Business of Intellectual Property – Registration open now!

The registration for CIP’s exclusive executive education program, The Business of Intellectual Property, is now open for 2025. The program takes place in two 3-day modules on June 16-18 and Sep. 1-3 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Participants in the program are primarily from our CIP Partner firms, but each year we reserve 5 open places for companies that are interested to raise the level of their IP management from a strategic business perspective.

The co-faculty directors for the program are Ruud Peters and Bowman Heiden with over 60 years of combined experience working with industry to develop business-driven IP organizations, strategies, and operations that are focused on creating business value as the North Star. The program is taught in our “patented” tough-love approach designed to instigate meaningful development that greatly increases the value and importance of IP in your company. More information can be found on our website.

Thesis work – improving gender diversity in innovation @Volvo Group

Volvo Group is looking for two Master’s students to write their thesis and help improve gender diversity in innovation. Volvo Group signed the Diversity Pledge in January of 2023 and by doing so they are committed to improving diversity in innovation, focusing on increasing the numbers of female innovators, which will be measured by the representation of women inventors in patent applications.

For more information, please click here.

C-IP2 2023 Annual Fall Conference

C-IP2’s 2023 Annual Conference explores IP issues arising from major Supreme Court decisions, new licensing approaches, national security issues, and tech innovation (Metaverse, crypto, NFTs, and generative AI). Impacted doctrines include first sale, SEP and FRAND, TRIPS waiver, functional claiming, so-called patent thickets, and more. Join leading academics, practitioners, industry heads, and judges to work through the most important new developments in IP, tech, and the arts. This year’s conference features a special celebration honoring the life and work of the indomitable Judge Pauline Newman from the Federal Circuit.

Register here.

 

IPBASICS.ORG IS LAUNCHED

LESS IS MORE WHEN IT COMES TO UNDERSTANDING IP RIGHTS

When it comes to understanding intellectual property rights at least one organization has come to believe that less is more. 

A fresh approach to learning why IP rights exist and who they benefit was introduced today by the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding, a non-profit. The CIPU-curated portal makes it easy for everybody to attain basic IP knowledge.

Viewers of all ages and backgrounds can begin to grasp the major IP concepts of sharing and protection through IPBasics.org. Site content features examples and explanations of the four types of intellectual property rights, including NIKE, LEGOS, iPhone, and the Beyonce catalog and products.

To read more, please click here.

CIP FORUM 2021 (hybrid) Göteborg: Dec 9th-11th – in collaboration with Volvo Group

CIP is happy to announce CIP FORUM 2021 – Paradigm Shift, which will be held in collaboration with Volvo Group on December 9-11 in Göteborg.

Building on the theme of a Brave New World, we will explore the impact of fast-paced technological change on the integrity of the IP system and the role of IP management, in particular, the impact of the rapidly developing capabilities of artificial intelligence.

The hybrid event will be run both virtually and in-person (fingers crossed). If you have any questions please contact Bowman Heiden or Karla Soler Riba.

Upcoming seminar by IPR University Center “SEPs – what should the EU do?”

Bowman Heiden, Jorge L. Contreras, Steve Faraji, Sonja London, and Matthias Zigann will be speaking at the upcoming seminar by IPR University Center “SEPs – what should the EU do?”

How should the EU facilitate the licensing of SEPs? This seminar addresses the challenges that SEP licensing currently faces in the EU and beyond and the means by which the EU could seek to resolve the issues through its policy actions. It evaluates the current initiatives put forward and considers how the European Commission, national courts and the CJEU can facilitate the licensing of SEPs in a way that secures innovators incentives to innovate and effective access to SEPs by implementers.

PROGRAM

17.00 – 17.05 Opening of the seminar

17.05 – 17.25 A Policy Governance Framework for SEP Licensing – Private vs. Public Ordering
Co-Director Bowman Heiden, Center for Intellectual Property, CIP

17.25 – 17.45 Anti-suit injunctions
Professor Jorge L. Contreras ,University of Utah

17.45 – 17.55 Break 

17.55 – 18.15 Approach of German courts
Presiding Judge Dr.  Matthias Zigann,Regional Court of Munich I

18.15 – 18.35 Prepared comments to all three presentations
Licensing Executive Sonja London, Nokia
Chief IPR Policy Manager Steve Faraji, AUDI

Presenters’ responses 

Questions and comments from the audience and replies of presenters

19.00 Closing of the seminar 

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