Special Interest Group on Intellectual Property: Can IP help to protect your competitiveness in the field of services?
SIG-II Meeting, Hotel Paris, Prague (Czech Republic), 16/17 June 2011
Summary
Services are increasingly contributing to the businesses of many industrial companies and to their success on the market. In view of this remarkable paradigm shift in doing business the question arise how and to which extent Intellectual Property (IP) can help these companies to protect their innovations also in the field of services. Technical Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) like patents are efficient and well-known tools to protect product and technology innovations. But how and to which extent are they suited to protect service innovations as for instance in the field of business methods and services not directly connected to products and technologies?
While branding, trademarks and designs are traditionally used to protect service innovations they do not cover all important aspects of such innovations. Therefore, companies new in this highly competitive field are challenged on one side by the speed of these fast moving markets and on the other side by the overall legal restrictions and boundaries of IP that are much higher in this specific field of business than in the traditional businesses they are coming from.
This meeting is focussing on what companies can do and what they can’t do to protect their service innovations and to which extent IP can help them in this respect.
Further topics that will be addressed are: What are the new trends in knowledge sharing and how can business intelligence and IP information be combined successfully to form an effective business tool that can complement IP protection of the business.
Target Audience
his meeting is aimed mainly at senior Intellectual Property Managers, Attorneys and Lawyers, but also Senior and Middle R&D managers who wish to learn more about possible ways to effectively control IP costs and to make IP processes more effective and robust while maintaining the necessary internal IP competencies and quality of IP.
Chairman
Dr. Werner Fröhling, Chief IP Counsel, Volvo
To Register
Please return the registration form below by mail or fax by 9 June 2011.
participants
- Dr Marc Berger (GDF Suez)
- Ms Béatrice Bianchini-Burlot (Electricite de France)
- Dr Vera Bieller (BASF)
- Dr Aksel Buchter-Larsen (DuPont de Nemours)
- Dr Frédéric Caillaud (L'Oreal)
- Mr Thomas P. Canty (Leydig, Voit & Mayer)
- Mr Jean-Luc Cerdan (Electricite de France)
- Mr Luke Collins (Journalist and Corporate Writer)
- Dr Geert Defieuw (Umicore)
- Dr Geert Depovere (Philips)
- Ms Dominique Dessalle (Veolia Environnement)
- Dr Werner Fröhling (Flooring Technologies Ltd)
- Mr Jérôme Laguette (Renault)
- Dr Francis Leyder (Total)
- Mr Bart Lindekens (SIRRIS)
- Ms Anne-Mari Lummevuo (Nokia)
- Dr Beat Mollet (Nestle)
- Dr Clara Neppel (European Patent Office)
- Ms Katarina Nilsson (Stora Enso)
- Ms Marja-Liisa Pihlström (EIRMA)
- Mr Francesco Rogo (Finmeccanica)
- Mr Edwin Snoeks (Shell)
- Mr Loek Steffanie (DSM)
- Dr Wolfram Stichert (hte AG)
- Ms Anne-Laure Tanguy-Boch (EIRMA)
- Dr Giandomenico Testi (ABB)
- Mr Alexander van Eeuwijk (Philips)
- Mr Lieven Vangheluwe (NV Bekaert SA)
- Mr Gilles Wurfbain (Unilever)
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