Conference on Research Use of Patented Inventions: Presentations

CSIC/OECD/OEPM CONFERENCE
RESEARCH USE OF PATENTED INVENTIONS
Madrid, Spain, 18-19 May 2006

Opening session

• José Manuel FERNÁNDEZ DE LABASTIDA, Vicepresident for Scientific and Technical Research, Spanish Research Council (CSIC) (pdf, 17Kb)
• Mª Teresa MOGÍN, Director, Spanish Patent Office (OEPM)
• Nobuo TANAKA, Director for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD (pdf, 18Kb)
• Bruno van POTTELSBERGHE, Chief Economist, European Patent Office (EPO) (pdf, 229Kb)

Keynote Speech I

• John BARTON, Professor of Law, Emeritus, Stanford Law School (pdf, 36Kb)

Session 1: How does patenting affect access to inventions for research purposes?
Chair and discussant: Stephen MERRILL, Executive Director, Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, The National Academies (pdf, 190Kb)

• John WALSH, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago (pdf, 281Kb)
• Jana ASHER, Senior Programme Associate, Project on Science and Intellectual Property in the Public Interest, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (pdf, 137Kb)
• Sadao NAGAOKA, Professor of Economics, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University (pdf, 132Kb)

Session 2: Perspectives from the private and public research sectors
Chair and discussant: Richard JOHNSON, Arnold and Porter, Vice-Chairman, BIAC Technology Committee

• José Luis de MIGUEL, Director, Technology Transfer Office, Spanish Research Council (CSIC) (pdf, 389Kb)
• Peter M. KLETT, IP Counsel, IBM Research GmbH, Zurich Research Laboratory (pdf, 468Kb)
• Miguel Angel FLORES, Research Scientist, RepsolYPF (pdf, 218Kb)
• Neil THOMAS, Intellectual Property Director, Genetrix, Madrid (pdf, 714Kb)

Session 3: How effective are research exemptions in patent law?
Chair and discussant: Alberto BERCOVITZ, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) and Estudio Jurídico Alberto Bercovitz (pdf, 11Kb)

• Trevor COOK, Partner, Bird&Bird, United Kingdom (pdf, 212Kb)
• Joseph STRAUS, Director, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law (pdf, 80Kb)
• Andrew CHRISTIE, Director, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA) (pdf, 146Kb)
• Nikolaus THUMM, Senior Economic Counsellor, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (pdf, 240Kb)

Keynote Speech II

• Margarita SALAS, Research Professor, Spanish Research Council (CSIC)

Session 4: Facilitating access to inventions for research purposes
Chair and discussant: Alison BRIMELOW, President Elect European Patent Office (EPO).

• Rebecca EISENBERG, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
• Jerry ROSENTHAL, CEO, Open Invention Network (pdf, 104Kb)
• Brian FITZGERALD, Head, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology (pdf, 2404Kb)
• Sean O’CONNOR, Associate Director, Center for Advanced Study and Research on Intellectual Property (CASRIP) (pdf, 288Kb)

Roundtable: Looking to the future
Chair: Nobuo TANAKA, Director for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD (pdf, 26Kb)

• Sadao NAGAOKA, Professor of Economics, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University
• John H. RAUBITSCHECK, Patent Counsel, Office of the Chief Counsel for Technology, US Department of Commerce (pdf, 12Kb)
• Elisabeth THOURET-LEMAITRE, Head of IP Department, Sanofi-Aventis
• Alain GALLOCHAT, IP Counsel, French Ministry of Research (pdf, 57Kb)
• José Luis de MIGUEL, Director, Technology Transfer Office, Spanish Research Council (CSIC)

With the support of the