IP Management in Practice

Dr Arnaud Gasnier is Consultant and Founder of Patentopolis BV specialized in IP management. Arnaud has practiced globally in various IP (patents, trademarks) departments and in various roles (Patent Attorney, Licensing Associate, Portfolio Manager, Associate General Counsel, Assistant Director) for 25+ years, e.g. for Swatch, Philips, Dutch contract research organization TNO, and Adidas. He is the author of ‘The Patenting Paradox’ and regular speaker at global conferences and seminars especially in the area of strategic IP management. Arnaud is regularly awarded, recently with IAM 300 - The World’s Leading IP Strategists.

Professor Dr. Martin A. Bader is a European and Swiss Patent Attorney and Partner at BGW AG. He also serves as a Professor of Technology Management and Entrepreneurship at Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He is a member of both the Association of Independent European and Swiss Patent Attorneys and the Licensing Executives Society. Since 2014, he has been a mediator for the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. In 2013, he was selected to be one of the world’s leading intellectual property strategists by IAM Strategy 300. He previously worked as Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at Infineon Technologies in Munich, Germany.

Mr. Berres is a business owner and consulting partner with IPBA Portal GmbH (formerly Wurzer & Kollegen) in Munich, where he is responsible for managing strategy projects to protect digital business models. Before he has worked for more than 25 years as an executive in various divisions of Siemens AG in Germany and the USA. Wolfgang Berres is author and co-author of publications on IP and knowledge management and a member of the DIN committee on quality in IP management where he was involved in the development of DIN 77006.

Émilie is since April 2024 the IP Director of ANYbotics AG, a provider of autonomous robots. Prior to that, she worked for the medtech company Sigvaris Group. During her last five years there as a Corporate Innovation & IP Manager Émilie was responsible for project management and control from the idea to the market launch. Her tasks also included the creation and implementation of the company's IP strategy. Her first nine years at Sigvaris Group she worked as Innovation Projects and Patent Manager which required her to plan and implement R&D projects and to manage the patent portfolio. Before she moved to IP, Émilie was an R&D Engineer at sporting goods retailer Decathlon. She holds a PhD in engineering and is a certified IP Manager.

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Edward is an experienced European and UK Patent Attorney as well as a qualified solicitor, focussed on software, natural language processing and AI. He works as a Senior IP Attorney with Deep Render, a company developing the next generation of compression technology using AI. He is also the co-founder of Added Matter, a start-up using generative AI to transform patent work. Prior to that, Edward spent almost a decade in private practice, including at Marks & Clerk. Outside Deep Render and Added Matter, Edward spends most of his spare time training open-source language models and curating patent-focused datasets, and is an all-round AI evangelist. Edward has a degree in physics from Bristol University.

Alfred is a Vice President Licensing with InterDigital. He is also a Past President of LES France and was responsible for the LESI Electronics, IT and Telecommunications Committee for several years. Alfred has more than 25 years of experience in patent monetization and in negotiating license agreements worth several tens of million euros. He has joined InterDigital in July 2018 as per the acqusition of the Technicolor (Thomson) patent licensing business by InterDigital. Alfred was previously 25 years with the Thomson patent & licensing business that he joined after several years as Senior Manager with Andersen Consulting (Accenture). Alfred has been recognized by IAM every year since 2016 as one of The World's leading IP strategists (IAM 300).

Jacqueline Chernys is a Senior IP Counsel at Inari Agriculture NV in Belgium. Jacqueline has a PhD in Biochemistry/Genetics from Michigan State University (USA) and a J.D. from the University of Alberta (Canada). She is a qualified patent agent in Canada and the U.S. and is a qualified lawyer in Canada. She has worked in IP for almost 20 years, the last 6 years of which were spent in Europe working for multinational companies (Phillip Morris, BASF, etc.). In her various role, she advises on legal considerations affecting R&D activities, and on IP law.

Vincent Couteau is since mid-2023 Legal Director IP/R&D Transactions and Brand Protection of Eviden, an Atos group company. Prior to that, he was global Head of Legal IPR at Atos International. In these positions, he is entrusted, alongside with engineers, portfolio and R&D managers, with a mission to discover, protect, maintain and exploit IP assets throughout the respective ecosystems geographies, markets, service lines and business units with the aim of consolidating the respective IP portfolio. Vincent is a qualified lawyer in Belgium and a qualified solicitor in the UK. His expertise mainly spans the following areas : IP/IT, legal aspects of R&D, tech transfer, licensing, public procurement, EU-law, comparative tax law. Prior to joining Atos, Vincent worked respectively with Israeli law firm Weiss&Porat, Anglo-German law firm Taylor Wessing, K.U. Leuven R&D (the tech transfer office of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) and Siemens Belgium-Luxemburg.

Simone Frattasi is a European Patent Attorney and a Telecom Engineer with a Diploma in IP Business Administration from CEIPI/University of Strasbourg and a PhD in Wireless, Mobile Communications. He is currently serving as the Head of Global IP at MAERSK, which, under his lead, won the Gold Award for 'Best IP Department Nordics' by Leaders League in 2022 and 2023. Prior to this role, he was the Head of the Patent Department at Sony Mobile Communications in Sweden. His expertise also includes working as a Patent Attorney at two Danish IP consultancy firms. In addition to his professional achievements, Simone has been an entrepreneur, having co-founded and served as CTO and COO for two start-up companies. Notably, he has represented Sweden in the ISO standard 'Innovation Management System, Guidelines for IP Management'. Moreover, he is the main author of the book: 'Patent Portfolio Management: A Practical Guide' (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023). He received the recognitions as Finance Monthly's IP Adviser of 2023 in Denmark, Managing IP's Top Twelve Europe's In-House IP Leaders of 2023, and Managing IP's Corporate IP Star in 2022 and 2023.

Clemens is Global Head of Litigation at Nokia where he is responsible for litigation and arbitration around the world with a strong focus on multi-national IP litigation. He is a German attorney-at-law and a certified IP lawyer.

Donal is the Managing Director of Chawton Innovation Services which offers consultancy in the areas of innovation and IP management. He is formerly a VP of R&D and a Director of IP at Nokia where he worked for 21 years and gained wide and varied experience in the wireless telecoms industry. Donal is also a Visiting Researcher at Imperial College Business School in London where he teaches about 'IP management'. He is the author of a book on 'Intellectual Property Risk Management' which was published in early 2022. Donal's books include 'Inside the Patent Factory' and 'Harvesting External Innovation'. He is also written a large number of papers on various aspects of innovation and IP. Since 2013, Donal has been included into the IAM 300. He is a graduate from NIHE Limerick (now The University of Limerick) in Ireland in '85, with a Degree in Electronic Engineering.

Rimma is the Director of Intellectual Property at Landa Digital Printing and IP consultant. She is a highly experienced Patent Attorney with over 15 years of expertise in IP. With eight years spent at a leading Israeli IP firm, she handled patent portfolios for clients across diverse technological fields and actively participated in patent litigation processes. For nearly a decade now, she has served as an in-house IP manager where she manages and develops strategies of multidisciplinary IP portfolios. Rimma's experience includes management of patents, trademarks and designs portfolios, establishing and implementing IP strategies, collaborating with management, R&D and other teams, educating employees on IP matters, working with global IP firms, and overseeing budget planning and management. She is the Chair of the Israel Patent Attorneys Association (IPAA). Rimma has a background in bio-medical engineering.

Lally Rementilla is the Managing Partner of the IP-Backed Financing practice of BDC Capital, the Business Development Bank of Canada. The IP-Backed Financing practice seeks to provide Canadian companies with emerging or established IP portfolios with flexible, patient and value-add capital. Until early 2020, Lally, a CPA and angel investor, ran Quantius, an alternative commercial lender in Toronto. The company funded knowledge-based companies with intangible assets, particularly small- and medium-sized ones. Lally holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Businesss at York University.

Jeff is the Executive Director of the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. He also directs a variety of MBA entrepreneurship electives and co-curricular student activities at the School. Prior to this, as Commercial Director at University College London, he conceived, built and ran UCL's Technology Transfer division - including the creation of two early-stage seed funds and separate units managing consultancy, collaborative research and new venture creation. Working alongside research students and academics, he has co-founded over thirty technology-based spinouts that have, in aggregate, raised over £30 million first round finance and returned over £20 million to UCL. He is past President of and remains closely involved with the leading UK & European tech transfer associations, PraxisUnico & ASTP-Proton. He talks, trains and consults widely throughout Europe in the field of technology commercialization. He chairs the Professional Recognition panel for the worldwide 'Alliance of Technology Transfer Professionals' (ATTP). Before joining UCL, he was Technical Marketing Manager at Hoechst Celanese Corporation in New Jersey and prior to that, Photonics Research Manager at General Electric. His first degree was in physics and he holds a Ph.D. in thin-film photonics (UCL) and an MBA from London Business School.

Marcella is since 2022 the Director of Intellectual Property at Dover Imaging & Identification and since 2020 the IP Director of Markem-Imaje. Prior to that, she worked for twelve years for energy management company Eaton, the last three years as Chief IP Counsel for the EMEA region. Marcella started her IP career in a Dutch patent law firm where she stayed 11 years. In total, she has over 20 years of international work experience across a wide range of technological fields, such as automotive, medical devices, electrical power protection and distribution and aerospace. Marcella has a background in mechanical engineering.

Dr Harald von Campenhausen has headed a group of patent attorneys at Roche Diabetes Care GmbH in Mannheim and the USA since 2014, where he is responsible for patent law matters in the product areas of continuous glucose monitoring systems, insulin pumps and associated digital technologies. Previously, from 2009 to 2014, he was Patent Counsel for Professional Diagnostics at Roche Diagnostics GmbH in the field of immunodiagnostics for personalised medicine, cardiovascular, intensive care and reproductive medicine. After studying biology in Tübingen and the USA, he completed his doctorate in Japan and then trained and worked as a German and European patent attorney in Munich law firms from 2001-2009, from where he moved to Roche in Mannheim. Dr von Campenhausen has been a speaker on patent law topics for many years, in particular for FORUM.