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, Global Challenges Division, Global Challenges and Partnerships Sector, WIPO, Geneva

Marion “Amy” Dietterich is the Director of the Global Challenges Division at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

In this role, she covers Intellectual Property (IP)-related global policy issues in the areas of Global Health, Climate Change, and Food Security.

Amy has twenty years of experience in the fields of public health, water & sanitation, and governance, spanning community-based organizations, international NGOs, global health partnerships, and United Nations institutions. Prior to joining WIPO in 2018, she worked with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to ensure stronger community engagement in health systems governance and service delivery, and with the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and IMF to support parliamentary oversight of development cooperation and financing.

Ms. Dietterich earned her academic qualifications in Epidemiology, Biology, and French from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical

Medicine (LSHTM) and Bucknell University in 2005 and 2000 respectively.

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Director of Access and Private Partnerships,\r\nDeputy General Council, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI), London, United Kingdom

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Emma Wheatley\r\nis Director, Access and Private Partnerships at CEPI.

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Emma joined\r\nCEPI in 2017 and has served as Director, Access and Private Partnerships since January 2022. Responsible for the Equitable\r\nAccess Policy, Emma and her team bridge the demand for accessible, affordable medical countermeasures with\r\nthe ability to build sustainable partnerships and related systems.

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She\r\nhas over 20 years’ experience of strategic transactions and collaborations in the life science\r\nindustry. Her work enabling access to vaccines for low and middle income\r\ncountries started in 2007 with a Tuberculosis\r\nvaccine public private partnership at the University of Oxford. More recently,\r\nas Vice President Legal Affairs and Deputy General\r\nCounsel at Emergent Biosolutions, Emma spent several years advising on strategy and structure of\r\ntransactions related to outbreak preparedness,\r\nBARDA’s CIADM programme and stockpiling.

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\r\n\r\nEmma is qualified as a solicitor in England and\r\nWales and an attorney in the State of New York.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/ba46f3d5-9cd4-45db-a428-4164a736efd4.jpg","name":"Ms. Emma Wheatley","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224741,"bio":"

Attorney, California, United States of America

Silicon Valley lawyer James Pooley represents clients in trade secret and\r\npatent disputes, provides expert testimony to courts and arbitral\r\ntribunals, and advises companies on IP strategy and data security\r\nmanagement.

Mr. Pooley is an author or co-author of several major works in the IP\r\nfield, including his treatise Trade Secrets (Law Journal Press) and the\r\nPatent Case Management Judicial Guide (Federal Judicial Center).\r\nHis most recent business book is Secrets: Managing Information Assets\r\nin the Age of Cyberespionage (Verus Press 2015).

The Senate Judiciary Committee relied on Mr. Pooley for expert\r\ntestimony and advice during consideration of the 2016 Defend Trade\r\nSecrets Act, and one Senator later called his participation “instrumental”\r\nin achieving passage of this landmark legislation.

In 2014, Mr. Pooley completed a five-year term as Deputy Director\r\nGeneral at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva,\r\nwhere he was responsible for management of the international patent\r\nsystem. He is a past President of the American Intellectual Property Law\r\nAssociation and former Chair of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.\r\nHe serves as Chair Emeritus of the Sedona Conference Working Group\r\n12 on Trade Secrets and as Co-Chair of the Trade Secret Task Force of\r\nthe International Chamber of Commerce. He taught trade secret law at\r\nthe University of California’s Berkeley School of Law for many years.

In 2016, Mr. Pooley was inducted into the IP Hall of Fame for his\r\ncontributions to IP law, policy and practice.

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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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Vice President Patents B2B, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

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Stefan is Head\r\nof the Patents B2B Department of Merck KGaA and Managing Director of AZ Electronic Materials GmbH. He is in charge of organizing IP support for the business-to-business activities\r\nof the Merckgroup and steering the\r\nMerckgroup Trade Secret protection measures.

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He holds a PhD\r\nin Chemistry and is qualified as European and German Patent Attorney. Before\r\nbecoming a manger in the intellectual property\r\ngroup, he served as inhouse patent attorney at Merck KGaA and Henkel KGaA\r\nand as an IT consultant at SerCon GmbH.

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Stefan is a\r\nmember of the European Patent Institute (EPI), the German Chemical Society (GDCh) and the\r\nAssociation of Intellectual Property Experts\r\n(VPP). He represents Merck KGaA to\r\nmatters of intellectual property law at the European Chemical\r\nIndustry Council (CEFIC) and

\r\n\r\nthe German Chemical Industry Association (VCI)\r\nand teaches patent law at the Technical\r\nUniversity of Darmstadt.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/ae9bb03a-19fa-4729-8d8b-6fbd1c9e80eb.jpg","name":"Mr. Stefan Horstmann","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224765,"bio":"

General Counsel, J B Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Mumbai, India

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Sandeep is the\r\nGeneral Counsel and Head of Legal, Compliance & IP at JB - a publicly listed Indian entity with presence across 40+ countries, globally. He is a part of the Strategic Leadership\r\nTeam at JB and spearheads legal and\r\nIP matters as well as due diligence and legal\r\nstructuring for Mergers\r\n& Acquisitions.

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Sandeep has over\r\n2 decades of experience with large process driven healthcare companies including Mylan, US Vitamins etc, in a\r\nrange of roles covering patents,\r\ntechnology transfer, IP deals, licensing contracts and cross-border litigation in India and globally (Asia, USA, EU).

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Sandeep is an\r\nindustry thought leader and serves on the editorial board for the Journal\r\nof Generic Medicines. He has published\r\nmultiple papers

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/ presentations\r\nat international fora and was the contributor of India chapter for Thomson' International Contract Manual (2019). Over the\r\nyears, he has led multiple IP transactions / commercial litigations\r\nfacing leading global\r\nentities.

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\r\n\r\nSandeep has masters in law degrees from India\r\nand USA and he is the recipient of\r\nscholarships from the University of Washington and WIPO- UNISA. He is\r\npassionate about mentoring budding legal professionals and he advises international civil society groups on IP policy\r\nand training matters.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/78b13f9d-59dd-4bd2-a0bc-5fe9c6e1657b.jpg","name":"Mr. Sandeep Rathod","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224766,"bio":"

Partner, SPLAW Advogados,\r\nSão Paulo, Brazil

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Benny Spiewak,\r\nCCEP-I, CHC, LLM is founding partner of SPLaw\r\nAdvogados, Brazil. He is a\r\ncertified Brazilian attorney (LLB, Universidade\r\nPresbiteriana Mackenzie, São Paulo, 2001) and a registered patent agent. He\r\nearned a certificate in Intellectual Property\r\nLaw (IP) from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (São Paulo, 2006) and a certificate in IP and Technology Transfer\r\nfrom the University of New Hampshire’s Franklin Pierce Law Center (Concord, 2006).

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He served as the\r\nBrazilian representative at the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Intellectual Property Academy (Geneva, 2007) and has received a Master’s\r\ndegree in IP Law (LL.M) from the\r\nGeorge Washington University (Washington, D.C., 2009). He was a Foreign Associate\r\nat the Biotechnology Innovation Organization’s International IP Law and Policy Office (Washington, D.C.,\r\n2009). He acted as the Head of the International IP Commission, Board\r\nMember and General Rapporteur for the\r\nBrazilian IP association, ABPI (2010- 2018). He frequently attends and presents\r\nlectures at WIPO-supported activities,\r\nsuch as Summer Schools and symposia, as well as has acted at tutor for WIPO-coordinated, online programs.

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Mr. Spiewak\r\nadvises Brazil and Latin American-looking international government agencies, trade associations and private clients on complex\r\ninterplays between life science,\r\ninternational trade, regulatory

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Benny has been continuously\r\nlisted as one of Brazil´s top Life Science and\r\nIP practitioners. Benny teaches\r\nHealth Law and Intellectual Property\r\n& Innovation at the certificate programs of FIA and Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, as well as lectures\r\nPharmaceutical Compliance at the Setton Hall University.

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Director, WIPO Judicial Institute, IP and Innovation Ecosystems Sector, WIPO, Geneva

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Ms.\r\nMin is the Director of the WIPO Judicial Institute since its establishment in 2019. Prior to her current position, Ms. Min\r\nheaded the policy and international\r\ncooperation work of the WIPO Building Respect\r\nfor IP Division (2012 to 2017) and the legal development section of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center\r\n(2007 to 2011). Ms. Min was a member\r\nof the Expert Advisory Group of the\r\nMedicines Patent Pool from 2011\r\nto 2018, and is the author of a number of publications on IP enforcement and dispute resolution,\r\nincluding a chapter on cross-border intellectual\r\nproperty enforcement in The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law (Oxford\r\nUniversity Press, 2018).

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Ms. Min holds a Ph.D.\r\nin law from Yonsei University in Seoul, Republic\r\nof Korea, and was a Fulbright\r\nScholar at the University of Michigan Law School, USA. \r\nShe taught law at\r\nYonsei University prior to\r\njoining WIPO

\r\n\r\nin 2000 and was an Adjunct\r\nProfessor at Sogang Law School in Seoul, Republic of Korea, in 2013 and\r\n2014.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/3c7bbe3a-a466-4f12-a5a9-bab2a2415f5b.jpg","name":"Ms. Eun Joo Min","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224768,"bio":"

Director, IP Disputes and External Relations Division, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center,\r\nWIPO, Geneva

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Ignacio is a\r\nSpanish lawyer and an English solicitor. Ignacio\r\nholds an LL.M. degree from King's\r\nCollege London. Before joining WIPO,\r\nhe practiced with the law firms Baker\r\n& McKenzie, London and Freshfields Bruckhaus\r\nDeringer, London in the areas of international arbitration and litigation. Ignacio is responsible for the administration of mediation, arbitration and expert determination cases\r\nfiled with the WIPO Arbitration and\r\nMediation Center and for the development and promotion of WIPO alternative dispute resolution (ADR). This includes implementing ADR collaborations concluded with IP Offices\r\nand establishing alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedures adapted to specific\r\nareas of intellectual property.

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Partner, HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER, Düsseldorf, Germany

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Ivan Dimitrov\r\nadvises and represents national and international clients in the field of intellectual property law,\r\nwith a particular focus on trademarks, competition\r\nlaw and trade secrets. He has\r\nextensive experience in the life science,\r\nconsumer electronics and consumer goods sectors, amongst others.

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Ivan has\r\nspecial emphasis on implementation of trade secret protection strategies, including management as well as enforcement of trade secrets.\r\nHe advises clients on trade secrets cases, addressing i.a.\r\nconfidentiality agreements,\r\nnon-compete agreements, employee defections, industrial espionage and misappropriation.

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Ivan has\r\nlitigated in complex disputes before all relevant German IP courts, in both main and preliminary\r\nproceedings. He also has experience before the German Trademark and Patent Office\r\n(DPMA), European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)\r\nas well as the German Federal Patent\r\nCourt and the European Court of First Instance.

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Ivan studied at\r\nthe University of Düsseldorf, specializing in intellectual property law. During his legal clerkship, he worked for a Trademark Chamber of the Regional Court of\r\nDüsseldorf, in the IP department of an international\r\nlaw firm in Düsseldorf, and in an IP boutique in Washington D.C.

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\r\n\r\nUpon completion of his legal clerkship, Ivan\r\nworked as a research assistant in the\r\nfield of trademarks and trade secrets. Additionally,\r\nhe participated in a visiting\r\nscholar program at Fordham Law School,\r\nNYC.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/4468a1ac-71a4-4cc0-b502-bafb7851b3f4.jpg","name":"Mr. Ivan Dimitrov","jobs":"","urls":""}];