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What’s the importance of Trade Secret IP Protection & Management to you?
After successfully launching in 2022, Trade Secret IP Protection & Management EU is back for its second edition, expanding into a 2 day event to bring you together with experts from across the globe to address the most immediate industry challenges.
Join us for more practically focused examples and real life case studies including Mulsanne Insurance Company Ltd v Marshmallow Financial Services Ltd and Celgard, LLC v Shenzhen Senior Technology Material, and expert industry views.
Join companies including Valneva, Mnemo Therapeutics, Viaccess Orca (Orange Group), Enel Group, Merck, Ørsted and many more . . .
By attending this event you will gain the latest knowledge to preserve confidentiality, reduce the risk of misappropriation and maintain a competitive edge in an ever-competitive marketplace.
This is a must-attend event for anyone working within industry IP, legal, cyber security, HR and compliance functions.
Highlights Include
- Reviewing recent European trade secret cases to discover the latest legal nuances and how they impact industry in-house executives
- Devising a successful in-house trade secret management and risk mitigation strategy
- Optimising your internal cyber framework by understanding the importance of privacy, data and cyber security for trade secret IP protection
- Identifying your company’s commercial value and exploring how to audit your company’s trade secret IP
- Establishing the importance of trade secret IP in anticipation of the Rise of AI
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Trade Secret Pre-Conference Workshop
Monday 13th November 2023
Trade Secret IP Protection is quickly becoming a priority for in-house IP and legal counsels looking for optimal and cost-effective IP protection strategies. Enrich your experience at our event with exclusive pre-conference masterclasses to gain in-depth, interactive solutions to immediate Trade Secret IP challenges in the field.
REGISTER NOW AND THE FIRST 20 IN-HOUSE CONFERENCE REGISTRANTS RECEIVE WORKSHOP ADMISSION FOR NO EXTRA COST
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Workshop A | 09:00 – 12:00
Part 1 | Effective Collaboration: R&D and Technology
Part 2 | Effective Collaboration: Compliance
Part 3 | Trade Secret Risk Mitigation Technology
Workshop B | 13:30 – 16:30
Part 1 | Trade Secret Auditing
Part 2 | Cross-Border Risks and Legal Obligation
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Reasons For You To Attend Trade Secret IP Protection & Management Europe 2023:
- A uniquely cross-industry-focused event to highlight benchmarking opportunities across all areas of IP and trade secrets, which are having an increasingly real-world impact
- Participate in interactive panel sessions and roundtable discussions to share your expertise, and form business connections with IP leaders and legal experts with our professional networking opportunities
- Over 60% of attendees from in-house positions, examining trade secret IP developments in Europe and the US
- Bringing together private practice and in-house to discuss the latest challenges, as well as trade secrets and IP management priorities, to help you remain ahead of the competition
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Kisaco IP Advisory Board
Dr. Leslie Fischer
Leslie Fischer is a Principal Patent Attorney at Sandoz, who focuses on global IP strategy for biosimilars. Before joining Sandoz, Leslie was a patent attorney at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, where she worked for over a decade developing global patent portfolios for biologicals. Before joining the Novartis group, Leslie was an associate at Fitzpatrick Cella (NY) (now Venable). Leslie holds a J.D. from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Thomas Jefferson University. Her scientific work appears in JCB, JBC, and Osteoarthritis & Cartilage. She speaks frequently at patent-related events and is an adjunct professor at Seton Hall Law School.
Christof Bull
Corinna Sundermann
Corinna Sundermann has been heading the IP department of the Pharma Division at Fresenius Kabi. She joined Fresenius Kabi in 2008 as a Manager and built the IP department from 1 to 30 FTE since then. She has been the Senior Vice President since 2012. Her focus is on generics, branded products, clinical nutrition and medical devices. Before joining Fresenius Kabi, she worked 10 years for an originator company, 5 years as a Head of Combinatorial Chemistry, 5 years in the IP department and has been a European Patent Attorney since 2006. She holds a Dr. rer. nat. from the University of Jena and a diploma in chemistry from the University of Frankfurt.
Fredrik Fredh
Fredrik is a qualified European Patent Attorney and experienced international IP strategist. Having completed academic studies of innovation and entrepreneurship processes, as well as IP law and management, he has a good grasp of various intellectual property rights (IPR).
Thanks to his many years as IP professional in the Pharma and Biotech industry, Fredrik has learnt to use this IPR toolbox to pursue his professional passion; maximizing return on investment for innovation.”
Frank Landolt
Frank Landolt is Chief Counsel, Intellectual Property and Legal at Confo Therapeutics, a privately held biopharmaceutical start-up based in Ghent, Belgium specializing in GPCR-targeted therapeutics.
After studying chemistry and law at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, Frank worked for almost ten years on pharmaceutical and biotechnological patents and licensing in private practice in the Netherlands, where his clients included major pharmaceutical companies as well as some of the top biotech firms and research institutions in the Netherlands.
Prior to joining Confo in 2018, Frank worked for fifteen years in Ablynx N.V. (now a wholly owned Sanofi company), where he was a member of the management team and headed an integrated IP and legal group of four lawyers and five patent professionals. At Ablynx, Frank was involved in negotiating Ablynx’s strategic partnerships and licensing deals with AbbVie, Boehringer-Ingelheim, MSD, Merck-Serono, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi, and Wyeth.
From 2000 to 2004, Frank was director of IP and legal counsel at Devgen N.V. (now part of Syngenta), another Ghent-based biotechnology company, where he was involved in negotiating Devgen’s strategic collaborations with Sumitomo, Monsanto, and DuPont Pioneer.
Frank is a Dutch and European patent attorney and also holds a degree in business law from the University of Antwerp. He is a member of the Dutch association of patent attorneys (where he is a tutor for the professional qualification course), EPI, and LES Benelux (where he is involved in the LES Licensing Course). He is a regular speaker on a range of topics relating to IP and licensing in the (bio)pharmaceutical sector. Frank was named as one of Managing IP’s ‘Corporate IP stars’ for four years in a row (2015-2018).
Mathilde Rauline
Mathilde is a European patent attorney, is qualified as a French patent attorney, and is admitted to the Paris bar.
She is head of Greater Europe patent litigation at Sanofi, after having been a patent litigator in private practice (mostly in the pharmaceutical field), and a patent attorney in the industry (Sanofi, Nestlé).
She has extensive experience in pharmaceutical and life-science patent litigation in France, at the EPO, in Europe, and in Eurasia.
Her expertise also comprises contractual matters, settlements, regulatory aspects, and the SPC regulation.
Lorenz Kallenbach
Lorenz Kallenbach is a senior corporate patent counsel in the healthcare division of Merck KGaA. He is responsible for defining and executing the IP strategy for innovator projects. Including the assessment of the IP landscape, coordination of worldwide patent litigation, and portfolio development.
Before joining Merck, Lorenz worked in private practice. He is qualified as a German and European patent attorney.
Lorenz studied biochemistry and received a Ph.D. in the field of epigenetics.
Stephan Kutik
Ewan Nettleton
Mike Cottler
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2023 Speakers
Adrian Spillmann
Adrian Spillmann is Director of Corporate Intellectual Property for the Valneva group (a European biotech company focusing on vaccines) in Vienna, Austria, and specializes in patent and trademark prosecution, patent and trademark enforcement, patent drafting, patent portfolio management, in house patent counseling, patent monetization and intellectual property transactions in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals and other life science projects.
His areas of expertise include protection of prophylactics, therapeutics, and diagnostics for infectious diseases, immunological disorders, cancerous diseases, neurodegenerative disorders and metabolic disorders, vaccine technologies, antibody technologies, production of biological and chemical compounds, new medical uses, and formulations of known compounds.
After earning his Ph.D. at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, Adrian was a Consultant at Deloitte, followed by a 7-year stay in various positions in the patent department at Novartis. Furthermore, Adrian was Senior Patent Attorney at Ablynx, an antibody company in Belgium, for three years.
Adrian is a European and Swiss-registered patent attorney and received his LLM from the University of Law in London.
Bart Goddyn
Caterina Strippoli
Christine Maury Panis
Christof Bull
Don McCombie
Don McCombie is a partner in the London IP group at Clifford Chance. He advises on all aspects of IP law, in particular technical trade secrets and patent disputes. In recent years, Don has brought and defended trade secrets claims relating to technologies including cryptocurrency trading software, semiconductor designs, antibody libraries, fire-resistant coatings and liners for train gondola wagons, as well as business information and datasets. Don also regularly advises on the licensing and transfer of trade secrets and know-how and on practical strategies for protecting information and reducing the risk of trade secrets theft.
Dr. Sam Williams
Dr. Stefan Horstmann
Dr. Stefan Horstmann is VP of PS Core - Patents and Scientific Services at Merck KGaA.
Dr. Horstmann holds a PhD in Chemistry and is qualified as European and German Patent Attorney. Before becoming a VP of PS Core, he previously served as Head of the Patents B2B Department, and has also served as in-house patent attorney at Merck KGaA and Henkel KGaA and as an IT consultant at SerCon GmbH.
Dr. Horstmann is a member of the European Patent Institute (EPI), the German Chemical Society (GDCh) and the Association of Intellectual Property Experts (VPP). He represents Merck to matters of intellectual property law at the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) and the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI).
Fredrick de Mare
Kora Knuchel
Lena Pauschenwein
Lena PAUSCHENWEIN, Legal Officer, Directorate-General GROW - Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Lena Pauschenwein is a jurist specialised in intellectual property law and works in the Intangible Economy Unit of the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) of the European Commission.
Lena holds law degrees from the University of Vienna (Magister iuris) and the University of Glasgow (LLM), both with a focus on intellectual property and technology law. Prior to joining the European Commission in 2021, she worked at the Austrian Supervisory Authority for Collective Management Organisations.
Lilian Mocelin
Mark Chadwick
Olivier Lemaire
Pascal van Troost
Pascal van Troost is an all round IP leader with a can do mindset. He is a qualified patent attorney and holds a master degree in Engineering and a master degree in IP Law & Management. He has working experience in private practice as well in the industry. Currently he is working at Punch Powertrain, a company which develops powertrains for vehicles including hybrid and electric powertrains. At Punch Powertrain he is the corporate responsible for all Intellectual Property matters at Punch. This includes activities with regards to IP strategy development, stimulating innovation, creation of IP awareness, IP protection, IP portfolio management, IP litigation, IP monetization, IP risk reduction, IP contracting, IP intelligence and information security.
Preben Kjær Kristensen
Preben Kjær Kristensen has an Engineering Degree from Denmark’s Technical University supplemented with an Executive MBA from Copenhagen Business School. He is currently working at Ørsted Wind Power A/S as Head of IP.
Ørsted Wind Power develops, builds, and operates onshore and offshore wind turbine parks in Europe (North and Baltic Sea), Taiwan and the United States as well as energy storage (Power-to-X solutions, Carbon Capture and Storage, etc.).
Mr. Kristensen has more than 20 years of IPR experience from among others Nokia in different positions and the Technical University of Denmark with tech transfer and business development.
Mr. Kristensen is Chairman of the Board for the Danish Industry’s Patent and Trademark Executives and acts as a Technical Judge at the Danish Maritime and Trade Court in patent litigation cases.
Shane O`Neill
Stefan Braun
Tilman Breitenstein
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Women's IP World
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The Women's IP World Annual was launched in 2019 to highlight and celebrate the work and achievements of women working in IP, IP Law & innovation globally. Women play significant roles in IP & Innovation that should be recognised and discussed at the highest level.
We endeavour to give women from all over the world (that work in IP Law and innovation) a voice and a platform to showcase their expertise and experiences of working in the industry and receive recognition for their outstanding work and achievements with other like-minded professionals working in these fields.
Our publication has received much attention from international IP organisations like INTA and AIPPI, who have contributed the opening letters to our last two annual editions. Our yearly publication has attracted a cocktail of awe-inspiring women from all over the world who are happy to share their profiles and experience working in the industry with our global audience.
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Industry thought leaders provide comprehensive, detailed analysis reports on innovation, IP trends, new legislation, and IP strategy, amongst other topics in the IP spectrum internationally.
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Global Legal Group is an independent digital media company based in central London. Our clients are private practice and in-house lawyers, multinational corporations, and professional services firms in over 190 countries around the world.
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Since 2009, GLG has also produced Commercial Dispute Resolution, an online news and print magazine for litigation and arbitration specialists. In 2011, GLG introduced Global Legal Insights, an essential analytical resource detailing current legal issues spanning 16 practice areas, and, in 2014, African Law & Business was unveiled. Since 2012, GLG has also hosted a successful series of conferences and events, including the annual Global Class Actions Symposium, the premier event for international class actions specialists.
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