Double seminar: 7th AIJA Annual Competition Conference: R&D and Innovation - Protection through or despite Antitrust Law? // IP/TMT seminar: Internet of Things
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
21 June 2018 - 23 June 2018
7th AIJA Annual Competition Conference: R&D and Innovation - Protection through or despite Antitrust Law?
Thursday 21 June 2018 | |
| 18:00 | Registration at the Fleming's Selection Hotel Frankfurt-City |
| 18:00 » 20:00 | Welcome cocktail at the Ambassador Club (Fleming's Selection Hotel Frankfurt-City) |
| 20:30 | Optional dinner at the Café Hauptwache Address: An der Hauptwache 15, D - 60313 Frankfurt am Main Not included in the registration fees, payable locally |
Friday 22 June 2018 | |
| 08:00 » 09:00 | Registration at the Fleming's Selection Hotel Frankfurt-City |
| 09:00 » 09:15 | Introduction to the seminar by the Organising Committee |
| 09:15 » 09:30 | Welcome address by the AIJA President Wiebe de Vries, AIJA President, BloomTax B.V., the Netherlands |
| 09:30 » 10:30 | Antitrust Enforcement in Innovation Markets – Too much or too little? Google, Netflix, Airbnb, Uber – in recent years, the global economy has faced an unprecedented level of disruptive innovation, often driven by technology and involving enterprises with new business models. However, contrary to popular beliefs, disruptive innovation is not a new phenomenon and not limited to internet platforms. Only think of IKEA or Microsoft. How does competition law deal with disruptive innovation? Do competition authorities have the analytical framework and tools to get enforcement right? Moderator: Evelyn Niitväli, RCAA, Germany Speakers: Karen Ruback, Grinberg Cordovil, Brasil Sebastian Janka, Noerr, Germany Riccardo Falconi, Uber, France |
| 10:30 » 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 » 12:30 | Competition law and consumer protection – brothers in arms? The consumer is no unknown creature in the realm of competition law. Ultimately, competition law and consumer protection aim for the same thing: consumer welfare. Enforcement of consumer interests within the framework of competition law is already immanent in certain abuse of dominant cases. But is any violation of consumer protection laws by a dominant company, e.g. by excessive terms of service, inevitably to be equated with an abuse of dominance? The panel will focus on this and further interesting issues in the intersection between competition law and consumer protection. Moderators: Christoph Weinert, Commeo LLP, Germany Jens Steger, Simmons & Simmons, Germany Speakers: Stephan Schweikardt, Bundeskartellamt, Germany Yolanda Martínez Mata, Rating Legis, Spain Manish Bahl, Fieldfisher, Netherlands Zoltán Marosi, Oppenheim, Hungary |
| 12:30 » 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 » 15:00 | Research & Development Agreement at its best The structuring of agreements on research and development remains a challenging task. Territory or customer restrictions, exclusivity agreements and agreements on exploitations are typical clauses which require a careful analysis. The aim of this session is on the one hand to discuss and explain the pitfalls of research and developments agreements. On the other hand we will take a closer look at the challenges of in-house-lawyers handling such global agreements. Moderator: Isabel Oest, Commeo LLP, Germany Speakers: Sophie Lawrance, Bristows LLP, UK Sebastian Hack, Osborne Clarke, Germany Gereon Backmann, CSL Behring, Germany |
| 15:00 » 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 » 17:00 | Combination of innovation - recent trends in merger control |
| 20:00 » 23:00 | Dinner at the Apfelweinwirtschaft Adolf Wagner restaurant Address: Schweizer Strasse 71, D - 60594 Frankfurt am Main Departure from hotel lobby: 19:15 on foot 19:40 by public transport |
| 23:00 | Optional clubbing Not included in the registration fees, payable locally |
Saturday 23 June 2018 | |
| 09:30 » 11:00 | FRAND wars (Joint session) Standard agreements, having a positive impact on the economy by contributing to innovation and the development of better products, can, however, also have anti-competitive effects. With its landmark decision in Huawei vs. ZTE, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has outlined a new general framework for FRAND licensing of standard-essential patents (SEPs). As a wide range of questions remain unanswered, such as the question of market dominance of the patent holder, courts are still being kept busy with FRAND litigation. This panel will discuss how antitrust rules apply. Moderator: Stephan Dittl, Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner Rechtsanwälte, Germany Speakers: Claudia Zeri, BarentsKrans, the Netherlands David Henry, McDermott Will & Emery, Belgium Fabio Babey, Agon Partners, Switzerland |
| 11:00 » 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 » 13:00 | Fintech and Competition Law – or: A Cartelists Dream? Financial Technology (Fintech) is a new and innovative technology that aims to compete with traditional methods in the delivery of financial services. It is shorthand for new digital technologies used in the financial sector to facilitate day-to-day management, lending, online payments and money transfers; Blockchain acts as a shared digital ledger, secured by cryptography. There is a lack of certainty about how competition law applies to these types of digital technologies. Competition Authorities around the world are (re)thinking the competition law approach towards this new technology. Our Session within one of the centers of the Financial Industry in Europe will shed light on the dark whether the existing competition rulebooks are sufficiently flexible to address potential concerns about collaboration in the Fintech space or through the use of blockchain. Moderator: Jens Steger, Simmons & Simmons, Germany Speakers: Marc Roberts, General Counsel, Raisin, Germany Peter Broadhurst, Simmons & Simmons, UK Koichiro Hanamoto, TMI Associates, Japan Luciana Martorano, Martorano Law, Brazil |
| 13:00 » 14:00 | Lunch |
| 15:00 » 19:00 | Optional afternoon social program – city tour through “Mainhattan" Departure from hotel lobby: 15:00 Not included in the registration fees, payable locally |
| 19:00 | Optional dinner at the City Beach Frankfurt with option to watch the Football World Cup match (Germany vs. Sweden) Address: Parkhaus Konstabler, Carl-Theodor-Reiffenstein Platz 5, D - 60313 Frankfurt am Main Not included in the registration fees, payable locally |
IP/TMT seminar: Internet of Things
Thursday 21 June 2018 | |
| 18:00 | Registration at the Fleming's Selection Hotel Frankfurt-City |
| 18:00 » 20:00 | Welcome cocktail at the Ambassador Club (Fleming's Selection Hotel Frankfurt-City) |
| 20:30 | Optional dinner at the Café Hauptwache Address: An der Hauptwache 15, D - 60313 Frankfurt am Main Not included in the registration fees, payable locally |
Friday 22 June 2018 | |
| 08:00 » 09:00 | Registration at the Fleming's Selection Hotel Frankfurt-City |
| 09:00 » 09:15 | Welcome address by the AIJA President Wiebe de Vries, AIJA President, BloomTax B.V., the Netherlands |
| 09:15 » 09:30 | Introduction to the seminar by the Organising Committee and the IP/TMT Commission |
| 09:30 » 10:30 | Interoperability Standards - Open platforms/collaboration What is open platforms/collaboration? How does it work in practice? How do we get the machines to “talk” to each other? Do we need to develop new standards to meet the needs of this new area? Moderator: Adi Seffer, Prime Partners, Germany Speaker: Karolina Miksa, WKB, Poland |
| 10:30 » 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 » 12:30 | Impact of new technologies in IP With a blockchain patent database being advertised what role does blockchain have in managing the “trust economy”? How will IP rights, specifically trade marks, have to change or be impacted by the growth of smart devices? For example, can a smart device be “confused” between two similar trade marks for identical or similar goods? Does the smart device care about counterfeits? Moderator: Robert Griffiths, Kemp Little, UK Speakers: Dr. Donata Störmer, IRLE MOSER, Germany Thomas Nägele, NÄGELE Attorneys at Law, Liechtenstein Lara Elder, Carpmaels & Ransford, UK |
| 12:30 » 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 » 15:00 | Data Security Part 1: Taking it personally The first of two sessions on data security looks at the impact of the GDPR one month after it enetered into force. How does it work with IoT? What privacy do we have when Alexa, Google, or Siri are always listening? What about at work? What is being collected – and why? GDPR - one month on: An overview of the key data protection issues in IoT
In the second one of our two sessions on data security we will be looking outward, to our devices. Could ransomware prevent you from boiling a kettle (and bring the UK if not the rest of the world to a stand-still!)? Is security taken seriously enough? The deadline for implementing the EU’s directive on Network and Information Systems (NIS Directive) will have just passed: how are countries dealing with it? What about commercial attacks: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, Botnet? Taking things even further outside our homes – what are the national security issues at play in IoT? Can rogue states or terrorists use IoT to attack nation states? What balance should there be between openness and security? Moderator: Árpád Geréd, Maybach Görg Lenneis Geréd, Austria Speakers: Philip Nolan, Mason Hayes & Curran, Ireland Hannibal Özdemir, Greenfort, Germany Arne Bleeker, Palo Alto Networks, the Netherlands |
| 15:00 » 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 » 17:00 | Ownership Session News of connected tractors being licensed rather than owned by their farmers brings the question 'what do we really ever own'? What IP rights are there or should there be in Data and intelligent devices? What can we learn from open source softwares and open platforms regarding potential ownership issues? Moderator: Chloe Taylor, Carpmaels & Ransford, UK Speakers: Kaj Seidl-Nussbaumer, PROBST PARTNER AG, Switzerland Ilja Czernik, SKW Schwarz, Germany Marek Porzezynski, WKB, Poland |
| 20:00 » 23:00 | Dinner at the Apfelweinwirtschaft Adolf Wagner restaurant Address: Schweizer Strasse 71, D - 60594 Frankfurt am Main Departure from hotel lobby: 19:15 on foot 19:40 by public transport |
| 23:00 | Optional clubbing Not included in the registration fees, payable locally |
Saturday 23 June 2018 | |
| 09:30 » 11:00 | FRAND wars (Joint session) Standard agreements, having a positive impact on the economy by contributing to innovation and the development of better products, can, however, also have anti-competitive effects. With its landmark decision in Huawei vs. ZTE, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has outlined a new general framework for FRAND licensing of standard-essential patents (SEPs). As a wide range of questions remain unanswered, such as the question of market dominance of the patent holder, courts are still being kept busy with FRAND litigation. The first panel will discuss how antitrust rules apply, the second panel will focus on the IP perspective and standardization in IoT. Moderator: Stephan Dittl, Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner, Germany Speakers: Claudia Zeri, BarentsKrans, the Netherlands David Henry, McDermott Will & Emery, Belgium Fabio Babey, Agon Partners, Switzerland |
| 11:00 » 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 » 13:00 | IoT and the Supply Chain Exploring and pushing on with some of the themes discussed in Dublin and Bratislava last year, we will deepen our discussions about geoblocking but in this case specifically in relation to IoT technologies. We will also be considering how IoT will impact supply chain dynamics through the use of automated and predictive ordering. Moderator: Ben Rohrßen, Taylor Wessing, Munich, Germany Speakers: Diego Conte, Studio Legale De Berti Jacchia Franchini Forlani, Italy Francesco Gozzo, Veronalegal, Italy Giorgia Carandente, Taylor Wessing, Germany |
| 13:00 » 14:00 | Lunch |
| 15:00 » 19:00 | Optional afternoon social program – city tour through “Mainhattan" Departure from hotel lobby: 15:00 Not included in the registration fees, payable locally |
| 19:00 | Optional dinner at the City Beach Frankfurt with option to watch the Football World Cup match (Germany vs. Sweden) Address: Parkhaus Konstabler, Carl-Theodor-Reiffenstein Platz 5, D - 60313 Frankfurt am Main Not included in the registration fees, payable locally |
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