International Intellectual Property Conference
The Canadian International Council (CIC) presents:
CANADA AND THE GLOBAL COMPETITION OVER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ASSETS
A CIC by-invitation conference that will take place on October 6 & 7, 2011.
For more information, please contact nanwer@opencanada.org; 416-946-7210.
OVERVIEW
When it comes to innovation, the world is not flat. Regions that drive the global economy with cutting-edge innovation are those with assets such as large intellectual property (IP) portfolios, start-up cultures, and scientific citations. IP has become an important commercial asset that can be bought, bartered, and shared.
Building intellectual property regimes is not simply about national economic prosperity, it is also about global security and sustainability. A nation’s ability to grow crops under tougher environmental conditions, provide clean water to more people and unlock renewable energy resources depends on its ability to develop new technologies and manage its IP resources. The strategic policy choices made by governments will determine which nations will rise to meet these global challenges.
The Canadian International Council’s (CIC) international conference will address some of these critical issues, and will examine how Canada manages its IP resources and compare it to strategies executed in other countries and by innovative institutions and companies around the world.
TOPICS
- IP as the new currency of corporations and a centre piece of international trade talks
- Collaborating on IP: New Partnerships in the Sustainable Energy Sector
- Technology Transfer: Accelerating Innovation by Engaging Industry and Institutions
- Intellectual Property Rights VS Access to Medicine – Finding the Right Balance
- Improving Canada’s IP Legal Regime
- Canadian IP Policy from CEOs’ point of view
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS (as of September 21)
Jeffrey Astle, Intellectual Property Counsel, Pratt & Whitney Canada
Stacy Baird, Executive Director, Intellectual Property Program at US-China Clean Energy Forum
John Baker, CEO, Desire2Learn
Jim Balsillie, Chair, Canadian International Council (CIC) and Co-CEO, Research In Motion (RIM)
Dr. Florent Chandelier, Co-Founder, CADENS Imaging
Tony Clayton, Chief Economist, Intellectual Property Office, London, United Kingdom
Jean Nicholas Delage, Partner, Fasken Martineau, Montreal, Canada
Michael Elmer, Senior Counsel, Finnegan
Steven Fabijanski, CEO, Agrisoma BioSciences Inc., Ottawa, Canada
Judge Michael Fysh QC SC, Former UK Patent County Court Judge, London, United Kingdom
Daniel J. Gervais, Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School
E. Richard Gold, Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Dr. Klaus Grabinski, Judge, Federal Court of Justice, Germany
Dr. Raphael Hofstein, President and CEO, MaRS Innovation
Cathy Innes, Director, Office of Technology Development at UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Kenneth Korea, Vice President, San Jose IP Office, Samsung Electronics US R&D Center
Ahmed Abdel Latif, Senior Programme Manager for Innovation, Technology and Intellectual Property, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Geneva, Switzerland
Cai Minyong, Chairman, Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange, Shanghai, China
Loudon Owen, Chairman, i4i
Krishna Pathiyal, Director of IP, Legal, RIM, Waterloo, Canada
Marshall C. Phelps, Jr., former corporate Vice-President for Intellectual Property Policy and Strategy at Microsoft Corp and IBM Corp., United States and Co-founder of Intellectual Ventures, New York, USA
Peter Phillips, Professor and Head of Political Studies, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan
David B. Piejak, General Manager, LP Amina, North Carolina, USA
David Rosenberg, Vice President, Corporate IP Policy, GlaxoSmithKline
Teresa Stanek Rea, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, and Deputy Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Virginia, USA
Patrick Terroir, Managing Director of Caisse des Dépôts Intellectual Property, France
Paul Van Dun, General Manager, K.U. Leuven Research & Development, Leuven, Belgium
Jayashree Watal, Counsellor, Intellectual Property Division, World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Charles Wessner, Director of the Program on Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship at the National Academies, Washington D.C., USA
Derya Yinanc, CEO, Quantum Ingenuity, Calgary, Canada
