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Internet of Things
Subcommittee
Presents -
2020: The Year of the Cellular Patent Licensor. An Expert Panel Discusses Business Impacts on the Smartphone, Smartcar and IoT industry
Thursday November 12, 2020
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Eastern Time
2:00 pm- 3:30 pm Central Time
1:00 pm- 2:30 pm Mountain Time
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Pacific Time
Description:
2020 brought many crucial decisions for the monetization of patents essential to cellular connectivity: FTC v. Qualcomm, Sisvel v. Haier, Continental v. Avanci, Unwired Planet v. Huawei, TCL v. Ericsson and Optis v. Apple. Litigation will continue, but the worldwide legal landscape has become much clearer. As of now, patentees/licensors are prevailing over implementers. Join an expert panel to understand what happened, and how business practices in the connected device industry (smartphones, connected cars and IoT) will evolve. What you will learn? 1. Summary of major court decisions related to SEPs
a. FTC v. Qualcomm,
b. Sisvel v. Haier
c. Continental v. Avanci
d. Unwired Planet v. Huawei
e. TCL v. Ericsson and Optis v. Apple.
2. Decoding Huawei v. ZTE / Sisvel v. Haier “negotiation framework,” which requires making a RAND offer/counteroffer?
3. What makes RAND rate setting so difficult for SSOs and companies?
4. What can be done from a business perspective to reduce SEP patent risk?
Hosts: Nishant Jaiswal (Senior Manager, IP Licensing at HPE)
Maitreya Jani (Assistant General Counsel at Fortune Brands) Moderator: 
Joseph Yang (IP Transactions Partner at PatentEsque Law Group, LLP)
Joseph Yang is a partner at PatentEsque Law Group, a boutique firm focusing on strategic IP deals. Joe handles technology/IP transactions & strategic partnerships in -- and especially for cross-industry partnerships among -- the electronics, manufacturing, consumer, entertainment & healthcare industries. He is especially active in standards-essential patents matters. He is also an expert witness for high-stakes IP licensing disputes. Joe teaches Stanford’s "Technology & Patent Licensing" course, and chairs PLI’s “Advanced Licensing/Advanced Patent Licensing” seminars. As the former General Counsel of Cryptography Research, Joe handled its licensing (billions of devices/year) and M&A ($400M+). Before that, Joe co-founded and later led the “IP Strategy & Transactions” practice at Skadden, Arps (Palo Alto). Joe is profiled by IAM’s “World’s Leading IP Strategists” and “World’s Leading Patent Professionals” guides, Marquis’ Who’s Who in American Law, and the SuperLawyers guide for Northern California. He holds a J.D. (Stanford) and Ph.D. in engineering (Caltech).
Panelists: 
Kent Baker (Head of IP Strategy, Litigation & Licensing at u-blox) Kent Baker is a recognized expert on developing fully integrated, practical approaches to address business challenges related to standards, standard essential patents (SEPs) and FRAND valuation applying traditional and economic based approaches. Having served key legal, business and policy roles at Qualcomm, the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC Xerox), and currently with u-blox AG has provided him with an intimate understanding of R&D risk/rewards balanced with innovator/implementer market realities. Kent has BS degrees in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, a Master’s Degree in Business Administration, a juris doctorate degree, and is a registered U.S. patent attorney. He has also received certificates from the American Society of Metals and CDMA University. 
Yuichi Kawamura (Vice President at RPX) Yuichi Kawamura is Vice President of Business Development at RPX Corporation, where he primarily focuses on the auto sector. Prior to Joining RPX in 2019, Mr. Kawamura engaged in a broad range of IP businesses during his 39 years at Honda Motor Co., Japan. He held a variety of senior positions within Honda, most recently as Senior Vice President of Honda Patents and Technologies North America. In this role, he managed all IP related businesses including litigations, transactions, and US IP portfolio management and manufacturing licenses between Japanese and North American Honda group companies based in the US, Canada and Mexico. Under these manufacturing licenses, Honda North American operations generated nearly 2 million products including automobiles, motorcycles, power products, turbofan engines, and commercial jets. Early in his career, before joining Honda, Mr. Kawamura held a number of positions including Managing Director and Vice President of Japan Intellectual Property Association (JIPA) and Vice President of Japan Design Protection Association. Mr. Kawamura was an active member of several IP committees of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of the Japanese Government, and Japan Keidanren (Japan Business Federation). He has made numerous speeches at international conferences including WIPO, OECD, and the Norwegian Intellectual Patent Office (NIPO). 
Mathias Schneider (Chief Licensing Officer at Audi) Matthias Schneider is Chief Licensing Officer (patents) at Audi AG and a member of the European Commission’s expert group on SEP Licensing. He has been active in the area of IP management and licensing for many years, as Vice President for IPR at Siemens Communication Devices and BenQ Mobile and Global Head of Defensive Licensing at Nokia Corp. Matthias has been an advisor of major telecom manufacturing companies and patent licensing entities. He has played an important role in the development of the Siemens cellular communication patent licensing programs and was the lead negotiator of numerous high-value licensing deals (offensive and defensive) for various companies. He is also the inventor of more than 20 granted patents related to user interface and communication technology. Matthias Schneider is the Chairman of ETSI’s Technical Committee Human Factors and teaches at the Technical University of Munich.
Registration:
LES Members Price: FREE
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Non-Members: $69
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