International Intellectual Property Conference

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OpenCanada Staff

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25 July, 2011

By: OpenCanada Staff

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

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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

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