ETSI

Standards, IPRs & Competition

 
 

AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THE RELATIONSHIP 
BETWEEN STANDARDS and IPRs

Supported by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China
Organized by ETSI
In partnership with the EU-China Trade Project (EUCTP)



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08:00 - 08:30R e g i s t r a t i o n
  
08:30 - 08:45WELCOME AND OPENING ADDRESS  
Moderator: An Baisheng, Deputy Division Chief, WTO Department, Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China
 
  • Dr. Zhang Xiangchen, Director-General of Department for WTO Affairs, Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China
  • Dr. Michael Pulch, Deputy Head of Delegation (Minister Counsellor), Delegation of the European Commission
  • Karsten Meinhold, Chairman ETSI IPR Committee, ETSI

 

08:45 - 10:00KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
Moderator: Dr. Wang Bing, Professor, Director of Research Center for Intellectual Property Laws, Tsinghua University Law School
  • Standards and Patents - The ETSI IPR Policy
    Dr Michael Fröhlich, Legal Affairs Director, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI )
    [PPT EN - PPT CN]
  • IPRs issues in Standards
    WU Xiaoming, Deputy Secretary-General, National IP Strategy Formulation Leading Group Office (NIPSO), Deputy Director General, Development and Research Center, State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO)
    [Presentation not available]
  • Whose game? Standards and their patents at 21st Century crossroads
    Dr. Konstantinos Karachalios, European and International Affairs, European Patent Office (EPO) 
    [PPT EN - PPT CN]
10:00 - 10:30 C o f f e e    B r e a k
 
10:30 - 12:15 SESSION 1: VALUE AND INCENTIVES TO INNOVATE
This panel explores the dense relationship between the aims of technical Standards and those of Patents. Panelist will examine the incentives to innovate as well as the value of innovation. The importance of standardisation, the need for interoperability as well as the economic background of technological standards will also be discussed.

Moderator: Dr. Zhang Ping, Professor at the Intellectual Property Institute, Beijing University Law School
  • Interoperability and Standards, the economic and legal framework
    Jack E. Haken, Vice President, Philips Intellectual Property & Standards
    Visiting Professor Fudan University Law School (2006 - 2007), Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    [PPT EN - PPT CN]
  • IP business models, innovation and standardisation
    Kent Baker, Vice President, Director of Global IPR Policy and Compliance Division, Qualcomm Inc.
    [PPT EN - PPT CN]
  • Competition law constraints
    William A. Davies - General Manager and President, Research in Motion (Barbados) Ltd
    [PPT EN - PPT CN]
  • Standards and IPRs from the perspective of an innovative company
    Dr. Kai Brandt, Head of Corporate Intellectual Property and Functions (CTI), Siemens (China) Ltd
    [PPT EN - PPT CN]
  • The IPR Policy of the TD-SCDMA Industry Alliance
    Yue Ya, Legal Counsel, TD-SCDMA Alliance (TDIA)
    [PPT EN - PPT CN]
12:30 - 13:30    L u n c h
13:30  - 15:30SESSION 2: CONFLICT RESOLUTION BY SELF-REGULATION
Officially recognized Standards Developing Organizations with a broad range of membership have to face the challenge to strike the proper balance between all the interests involved. The public interest, the interests of IPR owners, those of third parties as well as the interests of the Standards Developing Organization themselves require to be fairly weighted and balanced. This panel will investigate how Self-regulation mechanisms through IPR Policies in Standards Developing Organizing can be a suitable way to solve the biggest part of the problems already at the onset. 

ModeratorKarsten Meinhold, Chairman ETSI IPR Committee, ETSI
  • Conflict resolution and self-regulation by Chinese industry
    Yang Lincun, Deputy Director-General of the IPR Center, Ministry of Science and Technology of People's Republic of China
    [Presentation not available]
  • Necessity of early disclosures of IPRs in Standardisation Process
    Heinz Polsterer, Executive Vice President, International and IPR Management, T-Mobile International
    [PPT EN - PPT CN]
  • CCSA's Consideration on IPR Policy
    Feng Pan, Assistant Secretary-General of China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) 
    [PPT EN - PPT CN]
  • Trends on licensing practices in Standard Developing Organizations
    Earl Nied, Program Director of SIGs and Standards for Intel Legal Department, Intel Corp.
    [PPT EN - PPT CN]
  • The CESI IPR Policy Template
    Shi Shaohua, Engineer, Standardization Development Research Centre, China Electronics Standardization Institute (CESI)
    [PPT EN - PPT CN]
15:30 - 16:00C o f f e e    B r e a k
16:00 - 18:00SESSION 3: EFFECTIVE EXTERNAL CHECKS & BALANCES
Panelists will examine how legislative measures can provide effective checks and balances to the relationship between Standards and Patents, either externally by Competition Law or by safeguards that would fall under the Patent Law domain itself. With this regard, the panel will look at possible hold-up situations (patent ambush) as well as exclusionary abuses in the context of standard setting.

Moderator: Karsten Meinhold, Chairman of ETSI IPR Committee, ETSI
  • The third revision of the Chinese Patent Law - Compulsory licensing for Standards
    Dr. Yinliang Liu, Associate Professor, Vice Director of the Institute of Intellectual Property Law, Director of the Bio-Law Research Center, China University of Political Science and Law 
    [PPT EN - PPT CN]
  • Competition law in China - Technical standards and intellectual property
    Dr. Ping LIN, Professor at the Department of Economics, Lingnan University Hong Kong
    [PPT EN - PPT CN]
  • Intersection of Competition law, Intellectual Property, and Standard-Setting
    Amy A. Marasco, General Manager, Standards Strategy, Microsoft Corp.
    [PPT EN - PPT CN] [OPEN XML EN OPEN XML CN]
  • Towards an Open Document Format Standard
    Dr. Ni Guangnan, Professor at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    [PPT EN - PPT CN]
  • Social Requirements as The Balancing Function: Standardization as a Governmental Policy Tool
    Carl Cargill, Director of Standards, Sun Microsystems Inc.
    [PPT EN - PPT CN]
18:00  CLOSING REMARKS