High-Level Reflections on Standard-Essential Patents: In pursuit of a balanced system
10 November 16:00 -18:30 CET
Online Conference
With the support of Iban Garcia Del Blanco, Member of the European Parliament
& Concurrences, Media Partner
This high-level online conference will reflect on recent developments related to standard-essential patents (SEPs) in the European Union, the role of competition law to enforce ‘fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory’ (FRAND) terms related to SEPs, and the steps that need to be taken to ensure a fair and balanced SEP system for all stakeholders – especially SMEs.
The European Commission will deliver a keynote address outlining its thoughts on the topic of standard-essential patents, and offering participants a glimpse of future policy developments.
Two panels of industry experts, academia and legal professionals will discuss some of the most debated topics within the industry and the state of the standard essential patents ecosystem in the European Union.
Participants can expect robust discussion and rigorous debate. A question and answer session will follow each panel, allowing the audience to interact with the speakers.
Media Partner
Agenda
Opening Remarks
Iban Garcia Del Blanco, Member of the European Parliament
Keynote Address
Slawomir Tokarski, Director of Industrial Policy and Innovation, DG GROW, European Commission
Panel Discussion I
Use-based licensing: A hindrance to innovation?
This panel will explore how use-based licensing, can be a hindrance to downstream innovation with particularly harmful effects for SMEs. The panel will discuss how this methodology of allocating the royalty base as the end-user device captures value of downstream innovation, unfairly apportioning that value to the patent holder. The panel will elaborate how other valuation methodologies more accurately and equitably apportion the value of the patented technology within the standard.
Dr. Rebekka Porath, Policy Director, Intel GmbH
Dr. Roya Ghafele, Director, OxFirst
Prof. Dr. Joachim Henkel, Schöller Chair in Technology and Innovation Management, TUM School of Management
Sabine Agé, Partner, Hoyng Rokh Monegier
Sylvie Vollet, General Counsel at AirTies
Koen Van Oost, System Architect, AirTies
Panel Discussion II
The antitrust implications in the refusal to license standard-essential patents
This panel will explore the history of refusal to license, including the contextual aspects of refusal to license in the past, and the parallels now with the current refusal of Nokia and Avanci to offers licenses in the automotive sector. The panel will discuss the economic implications of ‘have made rights’ and why such a doctrine undermines the Internal Market and is contrary to European fundamental rights. Finally, the panel will discuss the effect of injunctions and how combined with a refusal to license are harmful to the European economy.
Jim Beveridge, Innovator’s Network Fellow
Brian Wyld, Former CTO, Wyres S.A.S
Dr. Frank-Erich Hufnagel, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Hans Joachim Gerstein, Partner, Gramm Lins & Partner
Marianne Frydenlund, Nordic Semiconductor