Speakers

Paul Inman

Partner
Gowling

Dr Oliver Werner

Head of SPC Working Group
German Patent and Trade Mark Office

Beatrice Stirner

Legal Adviser
Federal Institute of Intellectual Property Rights, Switzerland

Dolores Cassidy

Patent Examiner
Patents Office, Ireland

Inês Cristóvão da Silva

Head of Patent and Utility Model Department
Portugal

Dorte Krehan Seir Petersen

Senior Examiner, Patents, Biotech and Pharmaceuticals
Patent Office, Denmark

Brian Coggio

of Counsel
Fish & Richardson

Jonathan Singer

Principal
Fish & Richardson

Martina Tyreus Hufnal

Principal
Fish & Richardson

Karen Vermuyten

Expert & Founding Partner
silver RNA

Dr. Dieter Tzschoppe

Director Operations Biotechnology / Pure and Applied organic Chemistry
European Patent Office

Dr. Christoph Rehfuess

Head of IP
Sotio a.s

Rob Aerts

Intellectual Property Director
Tigenix

Fredrik Fredh

European Patent Attorney
Novartis Pharma AG

Vladislav Ugryumov

Partner
Gowling

Thomas Greiber

Head of Division Div I 1.4 “Competent National Authority for the Nagoya Protocol”
Federal Agency for Nature Conservation

Dr Thomas Vanagt

Senior scientist and Founding partner
ABS-int

Alexandre Entraygues

Head of Data Privacy Europe
Novartis Pharma SAS

Timo Minssen

Professor of Biotechnology Law
Centre for Information and Innovation Law (CIIR)

Elise Melon

Intellectual Property Policy
UCB

Mathilde Junagade

Patent Legal Counsel
INPI

Sandra Pohlman

Partner
Dfmp

Edward Oates

Partner
Carpmaels & Ransford LLP (UK)

Claire Bennett

Partner
DLA Piper

Elisabeth Greiner

Partner
df-mp (Germany)

Nigel Stoate

Partner
Taylor Wessing

Dr Stephan Wolke

CEO
thyssenkrupp Intellectual Property GmbH

Nancy Pei

Partner
Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh (Canada)

David Schwartz

Partner
Smart Biggar

Anja Lunze

Partner
Taylor Wessing

Christopher Brückner

European Patent and Trademark Attorney
Brückner IP

Bernd Hutter

Vice President, Head of Intellectual Property, European Patent Attorney
MorphoSys AG

Paul Reeskamp

Partner
DLA Piper