The Role of Experts & Scientific Advisors in Patent Litigation in the EU
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The role of experts and scientific advisors in patent litigation around the European Union
A joint IBIL/Taylor Wessing conference
Tuesday 11th June 2013, 9.15am - 6pm
Venue:
UCL Faculty of Laws
Endsleigh Gardens
London WC1H 0EG
The advent of the European Unitary Patent and Unitary Patent Court raises acute questions as to how the court is to receive, use and particularly evaluate expert evidence. It will involve something of an amalgam of UK and continental procedure.
This conference will bring together lawyers with patent expertise from a variety of continental jurisdictions to describe the system in their domestic jurisdiction (USA, The Netherlands, Germany, UK, Spain, France, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and Italy). It also does something for the first time - bringing technical experts who have given evidence in UK courts to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the UK system. The event also includes judicial input from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit of the USA, UK, Germany and Holland
Of significance in very high tech cases in recent years has been the use by the court of scientific advisors. Two experts who have done this job will talk about their experience - again a matter of great interest generally and perhaps of particular application in the new court.
This conference is accredited by the SRA and the Bar Standards Board with 6.5 CPD hours. It also constitutes relevant CPD for IPReg.
The Rt Hon Professor Sir Robin Jacob
Sir Hugh Laddie Chair of Intellectual Property, IBIL, UCL Laws 9.30am
Keynote Address: A US Perspective on Experts
Judge Sharon Prost, Federal Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Moderator: Simon Cohen, Taylor Wessing, UK
Panellists include:
- Nigel Stoate, Taylor Wessing, UK
- Christoph de Coster, Taylor Wessing, Germany
- Pedro Merino Baylos, Baylos Abogados, Spain
- Ruprecht Hermans, Brinkhof Advocaten, Netherlands
- Thomas Bouvet, Veron & Associes, France
- Jonas Westerberg, Lindahl Advokatfirman, Sweden
- Klaus Ewald Madsen, Bech Bruun, Denmark
- Andrea Mondini, Schellenberg Wittmer, Switzerland
- Fabrizio Jacobacci, Jacobacci, Italy
Moderator: Professor Sir Robin Jacob, IBIL, UCL Laws
Experts include:
- Professor Michael Yudkin, Emeritus Fellow in Biochemistry, University of Oxford; Scientific Advisor to the House of Lords in Kirin-Amgen
- Dr Roger F. Newton, Former Director of the Chemical Research Division of Glaxo Group Research Limited; Expert witness in several trials before the UK Patents Court
- Professor David Limebeer, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford; Expert witness in several cases and scientific advisor to the Court of Appeal in one case
- Professor Izzat Darwazeh, Chair of Communications Engineering, UCL
A View from the Judges on how a Patents Court Should Receive its Specialist Input
Moderator: Professor Sir Robin Jacob, IBIL, UCL Laws
Panellist include:
- Judge Edger F. Brinkman, Senior Judge, District Court of The Hague, Netherlands
- Judge Mine Reimnitz, Dusseldorf
- Mike Harrison, Chairman of Technical Board of Appeal (Mechanics), EPO
