Achieving European collaborative deterrence strategy against Non-Practicing Entities

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Maiwald Munich Office
Elisenhof, Elisenstraße 3
80335 Munich

With the further increased duration of nullity proceedings before German patent courts, the bifurcated patent litigation system in Germany is effectively limited to an infringement dispute. The “infringed, but invalid” scenario dominates the negotiations for any settlement between parties. These developments are expected to sustainably push active enforcement in general and particularly NPE patent litigation.

Hence the need for collaborative strategies against NPEs, which actively seek the monetization of patents by asserting or litigating against operating companies, drives producing entities to react.

In the US, the large scale of NPE litigation has led to various collaborative offensive and defensive solutions to reduce costs. Can market-based solutions like Unified Patents help deter NPEs in Germany and Europe from making dubious patent assertions as they do in the US?

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Agenda

17.30 – 17.45 h Welcome remarks

Dr. Simon Lud
Partner, Maiwald

17.45 – 18.30 h Uniﬁed Patents – Defending against NPE and SEP threats

Shawn Ambwani
COO/SVP Legal/Co-Founder of Uniﬁed Patents

18.30 – 18.45 h NPE patent litigation in the UPC

Stefan Bianchin
Attorney-at-Law, European Patent Attorney, Maiwald

Dr. Sophie Ertl
Partner, Maiwald

18.45 – 19.30 h Panel Discussion: Need for collaborative deterrence strategy in Europe against non-practicing
entities?

                         Shawn Ambwani, Uniﬁed Patents
                        Natasha H. Moffitt, King & Spalding LLP
                         Edmund Mangold, BMW Group
                        Dr. Dominik Bauer, AUDI AG
                        Dr. Ralf Uhrich, Google Germany GmbH
                         Prof. Dr. Peter Georg Picht, University of Zürich
                        Dr. Matthias Zigann, Regional Court Munich I
                        Dr. Sophie Ertl, Maiwald
                        Stefan Bianchin, Maiwald

19.30 h Reception with drinks and appetizers

Location

Maiwald Munich Office
Elisenhof, Elisenstraße 3
80335 Munich

Please register by e-mail with your name and company: empfang@maiwald.eu