The Sedona Conference WG9 and WG10 Joint Annual Meeting 2021

Date:

Thursday, November 18, 2021 - 11:30am to Friday, November 19, 2021 - 4:00pm

Location: Online (Zoom)

Registration is now open for the 2021 Joint Annual Meeting of The Sedona Conference Working Group 9 on Patent Damages and Remedies (WG9) and Working Group 10 on Patent Litigation Best Practices (WG10) to be held online on Thursday, November 18, and Friday, November 19.

Please join us virtually from 11:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET each day. The primary focus of this meeting will be for our numerous current WG9/10 drafting teams to lead a document-based dialogue to obtain member comment and advance the following draft commentaries toward publication for public comment:

Streamlining Lower-Value Patent Cases
The Evolving Relationship Between Federal Courts and Administrative Agencies
Strategic and Tactical Considerations in Selecting Venues for Global Patent Litigation
Cross-Border Discovery in U.S. Patent and Trade Secrets Cases – "Stage Two"
SEP/FRAND Licensing and Royalty Issues - "Global Edition"

And also to form and launch the following commentary drafting team efforts:

The Role of Patents in Biopharma v. High-Tech Industries: Can One Patent System Effectively Accommodate Both?
Patent Litigation Best Practices in Europe before the Forthcoming Unified Patent Court

At the end of the first day of the meeting, the Hon. Kathleen O'Malley will provide her thoughts on the current state of the patent system and ways it might be improved. And we will close day two of the meeting with a judicial roundtable.

We will maintain our dialogue-based format in moving this meeting online and carefully design our program to maximize the level of participation for each of our meeting participants.

Please help us ensure that each of our forthcoming publications reflect the consensus, nonpartisan approach of The Sedona Conference, and join the dialogue!

The Sedona Conference will seek CLE accreditation in accordance with rules and regulations set forth by individual jurisdictions for virtual meetings. Various state MCLE authorities require that we verify your live, active participation throughout the program.

Hon. Alan D. Albright U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas Waco, TX, USA	Ronald A. Antush Nokia of America Corporation Plano, TX, USA	Michelle E. Armond Armond Wilson LLP Newport Beach, CA, USA	Donald R. Banowit Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC Washington, DC, USA
Mark Blake Edwards Lifesciences Irvine, CA	Thomas A. Brown Dell Hopkinton, MA, USA	Juliane Buchinski ZTE Deutschland GmbH Düsseldorf, Germany	Hon. Christopher J. Burke U.S. District Court, for the District of Delaware Wilmington, DE, USA
G. Brian Busey Morrison & Foerster Washington, DC, USA	Hon. Clark S. Cheney USITC Washington, DC, USA	Hon. Joy Flowers Conti U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, PA, USA	Monte Cooper Goodwin Procter LLP Redwood City, CA, USA
Patricio Delgado Ericsson Dallas, TX, USA	Brian E. Ferguson Winston & Strawn LLP Washington, DC, USA	Hon. Beth Labson Freeman U.S. District Court, Northern District of California San Jose, CA, USA	Nicholas Groombridge Paul Weiss New York, NY, USA
Benjamin Grzimek Fieldfisher Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbB Düsseldorf, Germany	Hon. Melissa Haapala USPTO Denver, CO, USA	Haifeng Huang Jones Day Hong Kong	R. Eric Hutz Reed Smith LLP Wilmington, DE, USA
John C. Jarosz Analysis Group, Inc. Washington, DC, USA	Hon. Kent A. Jordan U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Wilmington, DE, USA	Hon. Justice Prathiba M. M Singh High Court of Delhi	Frances E. Marshall Apple Inc. Washington, DC, USA
Amandine Métier Hoyng Rokh Monegier Paris, France	Prof. Dr. Tilman Müller-Stoy Bardehle Pagenberg Munich, Germany	Rubén Muñoz Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Philadelphia, PA, USA	Aaron Nathan Tensegrity Law Group LLP McLean, VA, USA
Hon. Kathleen McDonald O'Malley Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Washington, DC, USA	Jim Oliva American Honda Motor Co., Inc. Rossmoor, CA, USA	Goutam Patnaik Desmarais LLP	Dr. Matthew A. Pearson Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Philadelphia, PA, USA
Matthew D. Powers Tensegrity Law Group LLP San Francisco, CA, USA	Terry Rea Crowell & Moring LLP Washington, DC, USA	Dr. Beatriz San Martin Arnold & Porter London, United Kingdom	David Saunders Juniper Networks Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Richard J. Stark Retired New York City, NY, USA	Massimo Sterpi Gianni & Origoni Rome, Italy	Anthony Trenton WilmerHale London, United Kingdom	Michael Vladescu Wi-LAN Inc. Ottawa, ON Canada
Eric Whitaker 10x Genomics	Laura Whiting Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer London, United Kingdom	Dr. Tobias Johannes Wuttke Meissner Bolte Part mbB Munich, Germany

WG9/10 Annual Meeting 2021 Agenda

DAY 1 - Thursday, November 18 (all times ET)

Time	Session	Panelists
11:15 — 11:25	Check-in
11:25 — 11:30	Welcome and Introductions	Hutz, Powers, Rea, Weinlein
11:30 — 1:00	[Panel 1] Unique Problems and Opportunities Posed by Global Patent Litigation - Part I (Unified Patent Court & Global SEP/FRAND)	Buchinski, Delgado, Grzimek*, Huang, Jarosz, Marshall, Oliva, Singh (J), Stark, Whiting
1:00 — 1:15	Break
1:15 — 2:45	[Panel 2] Streamlining Lower-Value Patent Cases	Albright (J), Burke (J), Ferguson, Powers*, Saunders, Vladescu
2:45 — 3:00	Break
3:00 — 4:15	[Panel 3] The Evolving Relationship Between Federal Courts and Administrative Agencies	Armond, Banowit, Cheney (J), Conti (J), Haapala (J), Munoz, Nathan*, Patnaik
4:15 — 5:00	Interview: Judge O'Malley - Reflections on the Current State of the Patent System and Ways It Might Be Improved	O'Malley, Powers

DAY 2 - Friday, November 19 (all times ET)

Time	Session	Panelists
11:15 — 11:25	Check-in
11:25 — 11:30	Welcome and Introductions	Hutz, Powers, Rea, Weinlein
11:30 — 12:45	[Panel 4] Unique Problems and Opportunities Posed by Global Patent Litigation - Part II (Global Venue Selection & Cross-Border Discovery)	Antush, Busey, Cooper, Metier, Muller-Stoy, San Martin, Sterpi, Trenton, Wuttke
12:45 — 1:00	Break
1:00 — 2:30	[Panel 5] The Role of Patents in Biopharma v. High-Tech Industries: Can One Patent System Effectively Accommodate Both?	Blake, Brown, Groombridge, Pearson, Whitaker
2:30 — 2:45	Break
2:45 — 4:15	[Panel 6] Judicial Roundtable	Burke (J), Cheney (J), Freeman (J), Jordan (J), Rea*
4:15 — 4:20	Closing Statements	Weinlein

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