CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
DAY 1
8th OCTOBER 2018
8.30 – 9.30
REGISTRATION
9.30
OPENING
ŻANETA PACUD
Institute of Law Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences
RAFAŁ SIKORSKI
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
ALICJA ADAMCZAK
President of Polish Patent Office
KRZYSZTOF LEWENSTEIN
Vice-Rector of the Warsaw University of Technology
PAWEŁ PODRECKI
Chair of the Centre for Legal Studies on New Technologies, Polish Acadamy of Sciences
10.00 – 10.30
INTRODUCTORY LECTURE
KATYA ZAKHAROW-ASSAF
The importance of being first
10.30 – 11.00 COFFE BREAK
PANEL 1
11.00 – 12.30
BOUNDARIES OF PATENTABILITY
panel moderator: Elżbieta Traple
ROCHELLE DREYFUSS
Patenting nature
HELENA ŻAKOWSKA-HENZLER
Human enhancement and patent law
TOMASZ TARGOSZ
Second medical use patents and the boundaries of patent law
12.30 – 13.30 LUNCH
PANEL 2
13.30 – 15.00
PATENTS AND TRADE
panel moderator: Anna Tischner
SUSY FRANKEL
Trade agreements and their impact on innovation
ŻANETA PACUD
Legal instruments stimulating innovation in pharmaceutical industry. Their importance for the Polish pharma
TOMASZ ZIMNY
Patent – a driving force or a costly addition to portfolio? Analysis of non-patent legal factors of marketability in plant biotechnology
15.00 – 15.30 COFFEE BREAK
PANEL 3
15.30 – 17.30
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & PATENT LAW
panel moderator: Reto Hilty
JAKUB SIELEWIESIUK
Patent protection of computer implemented inventions. Real life examples
IGA BAŁOS
AI patents: is there a need to rethink patent law?
PETER R. SLOWINSKI
Artificial intelligence, novelty and inventive step. What role does AI play in patent law today?
ALFRED FRÜH
Transparency in the patent system. Artificial Intelligence and the disclosure requirement
DAY 2
9th October 2018
9.00 – 9.30
OPENING LECTURE
KRYSTYNA SZCZEPANOWSKA-KOZŁOWSKA
Are we still encouraged to protect inventions?
PANEL 4
9.30 – 11.00
COMMERCIALISATION OF PATENTS
panel moderator: Jakub Kępiński
AMANDINE LÉONARD
‘Abuse of rights’ and PAEs in European patent litigation: a case law analysis
DIETER KAMLAH
Standard Essential Patents. The conflict between open access to standards and the fair reward for innovation
RAFAŁ SIKORSKI
On the meaning of FRAND
11.00 – 11.30 COFFEE BREAK
PANEL 5
11.30 – 13.00
PROTECTION OF PLANTS
panel moderator: Małgorzata Korzycka
GEERTRUI VAN OVERWALLE
Rethinking IP protection for plants? Comparing plant breeder’s rights, patents and open source
JUAN ANTONIO VIVES-VALLES
The scope of the Farm-Saved Seed under the UPOV acts of 1961 and 1978
RONALD KORENSTRA
Rethinking the future of the Breeder’s exemption, a culture clash?
13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH
Panel 6
14.00 – 16.00
PHARMACEUTICAL INNOVATIONS
panel moderator: Maciej Barczewski
JORGE CONTRERAS
The patentability of genetic therapies: CAR-T and the medical treatment exclusion around the world
MAREK ŚWIERCZYŃSKI
Biosimilars and patent law
JUSTYNA OŻEGALSKA–TRYBALSKA
SPC manufacturing waiver – a tool for increasing competitiveness of generic companies or a weapon detrimental for innovators?
AGNIESZKA SZTOLDMAN
Reconsidering the Bolar exemption: is the legislative framework fit for purpose?