WIPO

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Deputy Director General, Patents and\r\nTechnology Sector, World Intellectual Property Organization\r\n(WIPO)

\r\nLisa Jorgenson is the Deputy Director General, Patents and\r\nTechnology Sector at the World Intellectual Property\r\nOrganization in Geneva, Switzerland which administers the\r\nPatent Cooperation Treaty. She also manages patent and\r\ntechnology legislative and policy advice and programs relating\r\nto the law of patents. She was previously the Executive Director\r\nat the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the\r\nGroup Vice President, Intellectual Property and Licensing at\r\nSTMicroelectronics. Lisa earned her BS degree in biology from St. Mary’s University in Notre\r\nDame, Indiana, her Master’s degree in Management from Purdue University and her JD from\r\nthe John Marshall Law School.

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Director, IP and Frontier\r\nTechnologies Division, Infrastructure and Platforms Sector,\r\nWIPO, Geneva

Dr.\r\nUlrike Till is the Director of the IP and Frontier Technologies Division\r\nat WIPO.

She is an\r\nexperienced IP and patent lawyer with significant commercial background and exposure to complex\r\ninternational patent litigation, data\r\nexclusivity issues, commercial negotiations, competition law, settlements and agreements. In her current role, Ulrike focus on the wide reaching IP policy implications arising from digitalization, industry

4.0 and frontier\r\ntechnologies.

Ulrike is\r\nqualified both as an English solicitor and German Rechtsanwalt and has practiced in both jurisdictions. She has a\r\ntechnical background with a PhD in Chemistry, management training

\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n(MBA Oxford)\r\nand many years experience in private practice as well as in-house.

","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/da42c408-7537-4429-8a7f-8df98c059250.jpg","name":"Ms. Ulrike Till","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224744,"bio":"Professor, Director of the IP Institute, Mitchell \r\nHamline School of Law, St. Paul, United States of America \r\nSharon K. Sandeen is the Robins Kaplan LLP Distinguished Professor in \r\nIntellectual Property Law and Director of the IP Institute at Mitchell \r\nHamline School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She is a recognized \r\nexpert on trade secret law, having written (with Elizabeth Rowe) the first \r\ncasebook on the subject in the United States (Cases and Materials in \r\nTrade Secret Law) and a new casebook titled “Information Law, \r\nGovernance, and Cybersecurity” (with David S. Levine). In addition to her \r\nbooks, Professor Sandeen has written more than 35 articles and book \r\nchapters on intellectual property, internet, and information law topics. \r\nShe is the proud recipient of two degrees from the University of California \r\nBerkeley (a Bachelor of Arts degree and an LL.M. from U.C. Berkeley \r\nSchool of Law) and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of the \r\nPacific, McGeorge School of Law. Professor Sandeen is a Life Fellow of \r\nthe American Bar Foundation, a member of the American Law Institute \r\n(ALI), a member of the Association for the Advancement of Teaching and \r\nResearch in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), and was the Fulbright-Hanken \r\nDistinguished Chair in Business and Economics for 2019-2020.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/66cbc7cd-c6d4-4888-a470-56e046cdae66.jpg","name":"Ms. Sharon K. Sandeen","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224745,"bio":"

Mr. Andras Jokuti, Director, Patent and Technology Law Division, WIPO

Andras Jokuti is an intellectual property lawyer with domestic and international experience in public IP policy and university technology transfer.

Since January 2022, he is the Director of the Patent and Technology Law Division at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The division provides legislative assistance in the field of patents, administers certain patent-related international treaties (Paris Convention, Budapest Treaty, Patent Law Treaty), and works with WIPO’s member states to promote the progressive development of the international patent system, inter alia through serving as the Secretariat of the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents. The activities of the unit cover addressing emerging issues in patent law and trade secret protection, providing capacity building and training in these areas, as well as coordinating the implementation of WIPO’s Strategy on Standard Essential Patents.

He is the former Director-General for Legal Affairs of the Hungarian IP Office (2017-18). During his 10 years at the office, he was dealing with legislative and policy matters for all IP titles, including representing the government position at various European and international expert and governance bodies.

As a Fulbright scholar, he obtained an LL.M. in IP Law (2015) at The George Washington University.

Between 2019 and 2021, he assisted the Budapest University of Technology and Economics to strengthen its IP and technology transfer operations.

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Solicitor of the Supreme Court (England); Teaching\r\nFellow, Queen Mary, University of London, United\r\nKingdom

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John Hull is\r\na Teaching Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London where\r\nhe teaches a course on Trade Secrets and a course on the Commercialisation of Intellectual\r\nProperty.

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He received his\r\nfirst law degree from the University of Warwick and his Master’s degree from the London School of Economics. He is Visiting Professor at King’s College London where he teaches a course on\r\nthe Commercialisation of Intellectual\r\nProperty. He is also Senior\r\nInternational Fellow at Monash\r\nUniversity, Melbourne, where he teaches a bi-annual course on Technology Transfer.

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He is qualified\r\nEnglish Solicitor and was a partner for 20 years at two International law firms where he specialised in all aspects of\r\ncontentious and non-contentious\r\nintellectual property. He is\r\ncurrently a consultant with a UK firm of patent attorneys, Impact IP, based in\r\nLondon.

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He also developed\r\na practice in aspects of public (administrative) law relating particularly to universities, research organisations\r\nand medical colleges. In this practice, he advised on issues\r\nsuch as academic research misconduct and the investigation of medical malpractice.

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\r\n\r\nHe is the author of a leading book on Trade\r\nSecrets, a contributor to books on\r\ntechnology licensing and the music business.\r\nHe is the author of over 80 articles, notes and reviews in academic and professional journals.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/9286f953-8574-453c-a736-f7ec759e049e.jpg","name":"Mr. John Hull","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224748,"bio":"

Consultant, New Delhi, India

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Jayashree Watal\r\nretired from the Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division of the World Trade\r\nOrganization in mid-2019, where she\r\nhad contributed inter alia to work on\r\nTRIPS and public health, Patents,\r\nUndisclosed information, Economics of TRIPS, IP and Transfer of Technology, and IP and Competition Policy. She assisted the then Director of the Intellectual Property Division on the\r\nnegotiations that led up to the\r\nadoption of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS\r\nAgreement and Public Health in November 2001; the interim waiver solution in August 2003; and the Protocol\r\non the amendment that resulted in a\r\nnew article 31bis in December 2005. Prior to joining the WTO, she has had more than twenty-two years of\r\nexperience in government in India. She\r\nrepresented India at a crucial stage in the Uruguay Round TRIPS negotiations from 1989-90, contributing substantially to the development of the text.

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She currently\r\nholds the position of Honorary Professor at the National Law University, Delhi since August 2019 and\r\nhas been a part-time Adjunct Professor\r\nposition at the Georgetown University Law Centre since 2009, teaching a course on International Trade, Intellectual Property and Public Health every year, except 2020-21.\r\nShe was a member of the Governance\r\nBoard of the Medicines Patent Pool, a non-profit organization based in Geneva for six years until\r\nmid-2021 and continues to be consulted on MPP\r\nstrategy. She holds several part-time consulting

\r\n\r\npositions to\r\nassist WTO members and observers on TRIPS-related issues.

Ms. Watal holds\r\npost-graduate degrees in both law and economics. She is the co-editor\r\nof three WTO books: A Handbook on the\r\nTRIPS Agreement, (Cambridge\r\nUniversity Press, 2012/2021); The Making\r\nof the TRIPS Agreement, (WTO,\r\n2015); and Trade in Knowledge (Cambridge\r\nUniversity Press, 2021). She has authored a book Intellectual Property Rights in the WTO and Developing\r\nCountries (Oxford University\r\nPress, India and Kluwer\r\nLaw International, 2001) and several peer-reviewed journal articles on issues related\r\nto the law/economics of intellectual property rights.

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Senior Of Counsel, Szecskay\r\nAttorneys at Law, Budapest, Hungary

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Degree: Law Degree obtained\r\nin 1976 from the Law Faculty of the Eötvös\r\nLoránd University Budapest

Bar exam: 1979

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Post gradual trainings:

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a) two years' trainings\r\nto be a lawyer specialized in industrial property,\r\nand international commerce

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c) \r\nattendance of summer courses\r\nof Comparative Law organized by the Strasbourg Faculty of Comparative law (1980/81)

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d) participant and lecturer\r\nof summer courses\r\nof the Mc George Law School (Santa\r\nBarbara, California) on the legal system of the US (1983/85)

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d) Summer course in American law organized by the Columbia\r\nLaw School (Amsterdam, 1981)

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e) scholarship in the Max Planck Institute for Copyright, Industrial Property Law and Law\r\nof Unfair Competition in Munich\r\n(1985)

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Posts filled:

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a) \r\nlecturer in law, assistant\r\nprofessor, at present associate professor at the Civil Law Department of the Law Faculty of the Eötvös Loránd\r\nUniversity Budapest (1976)

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b) \r\nLegal practice: in house lawyer at different\r\ncorporations from 1976 through 1985, attorney at law since 1986,\r\nformer Legal Director of Artisjus, at\r\npresent: of counsel, Szecskay , Attoeneys\r\nat Law

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Languages: English, German,\r\nRussian (passive).

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Miscellaneous professional activities:

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Author or co-author of books and articles on IP, in particular copyright

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Member of the CISAC Legal Committee, Board member of the Hungarian Association of Copyright and Industrial\r\nProperty, Board member of the Hungarian AIPPI Group, chairman\r\nof the Copyright Expert Board,\r\narbitrator at the Arbitration Tribunal attached to the Hungarian\r\nChamber of Industry

\r\n\r\nand Commerce.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/be4e108b-7d6c-4c36-b501-01895b2e7b78.jpg","name":"Mr. Gabor Faludi","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224750,"bio":"

Professor of Intellectual Property Law, King’s College London,\r\nLondon, United Kingdom

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Tanya Aplin is a\r\nProfessor of Intellectual Property Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. At King’s, she teaches courses on international and comparative\r\ncopyright law and European and UK patent and trade secrets\r\nlaw.

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She\r\nhas published widely on copyright, confidentiality and trade secrets law. Some of her leading publications\r\ninclude Gurry on Breach of Confidence: The Protection of Confidential\r\nInformation (OUP, 2012), Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright,\r\nTrade Marks and Allied Rights 9^th\r\ned (Sweet & Maxwell, 2019), Global\r\nMandatory Fair Use: The Nature and Scope\r\nof the Right to Quote\r\nCopyright Works (CUP\r\n2020) and the

\r\n\r\nResearch Handbook on\r\nIP and Digital Technologies (Edward Elgar, 2020).","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/4d87780f-ec47-4d8d-82c1-1822afae2cbe.jpg","name":"Ms. Tanya Aplin","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224751,"bio":"

Director, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany

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Professor Dr. Josef Drexl,\r\nLL.M. (UC Berkeley)

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Professor Drexl\r\nis Director of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich, an Honorary Professor at the University of Munich and a\r\nmember of the Bavarian Academy of Science. He\r\nis chairing the Project Board of\r\nthe Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) Cooperation Project, which runs\r\na globally renowned master’s program\r\nin intellectual property and competition law.

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Professor Drexl\r\nwas the founding Chair of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) from 2003 to 2013, and he is a Vice- President of the Association Internationale de Droit Economique (AIDE). He acted as a visiting professor at\r\nOxford University, the LUISS Guido Carli\r\nin Rome, the New York University and the Université\r\nde Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas.\r\nProfessor Drexl is an expert in both competition law and intellectual\r\nproperty law.

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\r\n\r\nFor a number of years he has been working\r\nin particular on the regulation of the digital economy in times of\r\nindustry 4.0 and the Internet of Things. Inter\r\nalia, he authored a study on the regulation of connected devices on behalf of the European Consumer\r\nOrganisation BEUC in 2018, thereby also\r\naddressing issue of IP and trade secrets protection. He is currently acting as a member of the Working Group on\r\nData Governance of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI).","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/cb6bbd38-5c62-49d7-aace-c3159cf10845.jpg","name":"Mr. Josef Drexl","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224752,"bio":"

Deputy\r\nDirector, Intellectual Property Policy Office,\r\nEconomic and Industrial Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry\r\n(METI), Tokyo, Japan

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Ms. Onizuka is a\r\ndeputy director of Intellectual Property Policy Office in Economic\r\nand Industrial Policy Bureau of Ministry of Economy, Trade and\r\nIndustry since July 2020. She is\r\nresponsible for dissemination and an\r\namendment of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act and international affairs\r\nrelated to the Act, which regulates unfair competition acts including\r\ninfringement of trade secrets, unfair acquisition of specific valuable data, unfair use of a famous\r\nindication, and misleading representation regarding the place of origin.

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She worked for\r\nthe Corporate R&D Center at Toshiba Corporation as an engineer of integrated analog circuits\r\nafter receiving the M. Eng. degree from\r\nTokyo Institute of Technology. In\r\n2012, she joined the Japan Patent Office\r\nas a patent examiner specializing in analog circuits for transmission. She had\r\na role in assisting the revision of patent classifications in Patent Classification Policy Planning Section\r\nin 2017.

\r\n\r\nShe also spent a year researching integrated\r\ncircuits as a visiting scholar in\r\nthe Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University from July 2019, and then\r\nshe was assigned to the present position.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/d870bb94-c984-455b-a08e-7951eae7bd7b.jpg","name":"Ms. Yuka Onizuka","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224753,"bio":"

General Counsel CD PROJEKT S.A., Warsaw, Poland

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Ewelina\r\nJarosz-Zgoda is General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at CD PROJEKT RED, a video game developer\r\nbest known for Cyberpunk 2077 and The\r\nWitcher series of games. In her role at CD PROJEKT\r\nRED, she provides legal counsel to the company’s board of directors and senior management and leads\r\na legal team that advises on, among\r\nothers, IP rights protection and management, corporate governance and security matters, privacy & compliance,\r\nemployment, commercial transactions\r\nand litigation management. She joined\r\nthe CD PROJEKT Group in 2017 as a\r\nLead Counsel for GOG.COM, and CD PROJEKT\r\nRED in 2021 as Deputy Chief Counsel. Her\r\nrole as General Counsel at CD PROJEKT RED began in February 2022.

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She has a strong\r\npassion and expertise in intellectual property and consumer law. Before\r\njoining CD PROJEKT RED, Ewelina worked both\r\nas an in-house legal counsel in FMCG companies and counsel in international law firms in Poland.

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In\r\n2011, she graduated from the University of Warsaw in Poland, and the University of Florida Levin College of\r\nLaw. In 2015 she passed the bar exam at the Warsaw Bar Association. Currently, she is a PHD candidate at the Polish\r\nAcademy of Sciences,\r\nresearching the rationale behind

\r\n\r\nlegal hybrids\r\nsuch as sub-patentable inventions.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/fc71cf9c-4e2d-4a1a-aab1-62d9b58ab6ec.jpg","name":"Ms. Ewelina Jarosz-Zgoda","jobs":"","urls":""}];