The Sedona Conference WG9 and WG10 Joint Annual Meeting 2020, Online

Date:

Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 11:30am to Friday, November 20, 2020 - 4:30pm

(ET)

Location: Online (Zoom)

The 2020 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) will be held online on Thursday, November 19, and Friday, November 20.

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 their draft commentaries toward publication for public comment, thru the following six panels:

The Role of Patents in Biopharma v. High-Tech Industries: Can One Patent System Effectively Accommodate Both?
Unique Problems and Opportunities Posed by Global Patent Litigation
The Global Implications of Standard-Essential Patent (SEP) and Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) Litigation
The Evolving Relationship Between Federal Courts and Administrative Agencies
Streamlining Lower-Value Patent Cases
and our ever popular 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 complete agenda, with timeframes and dialogue leaders, will be finalized in the coming weeks.

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	Michelle E. Armond Armond Wilson LLP Newport Beach, CA, USA	Donald R. Banowit Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC Washington, DC, USA	James R. Barney Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP Washington, DC, USA
Brooks Beard VMware, Inc. Mill Valley, CA, USA	Hon. Cathy Ann Bencivengo U.S. District Court, Southern District of California San Diego, CA, USA	Hon. Hildy Bowbeer (ret.) St. Paul, MN, USA	Hon. Christopher J. Burke U.S. District Court, for the District of Delaware Wilmington, DE, USA
G. Brian Busey Morrison & Foerster Washington, DC, USA	Neel Chatterjee Goodwin Procter LLP San Francisco, CA, USA	Hon. Clark S. Cheney USITC Washington, DC, USA	Monte Cooper Goodwin Procter LLP Redwood City, CA, USA
Brian E. Ferguson Winston & Strawn LLP Washington, DC, USA	Hon. William Tim Fink USPTO Alexandria, VA, USA	Deborah E. Fishman Arnold & Porter Menlo Park, CA, USA	Hon. Beth Labson Freeman U.S. District Court, Northern District of California San Jose, CA, USA
Steven Geiszler Huawei Dallas, TX, USA	Robert Giles Qualcomm Incorporated San Diego, CA, USA	Nicholas Groombridge Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone, LLP 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	Hon. Andrei Iancu USPTO Alexandria, VA, USA
Philip Todd Johnson Johnson-IP Strategy and Policy Consulting New Hope, PA, USA	Hon. Kent A. Jordan U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Wilmington, DE, USA	Hon. Michael Kim USPTO Alexandria, VA, USA	Kenneth S. Korea Samsung Electronics Mountain View, CA, USA
Christine Lehman Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP Washington, DC, USA	Steven Lieberman Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C. Washington, DC, USA	Josephine Liu Sandoz Inc. Princeton, NJ, USA	David Long Essential Patent LLC Oak Hill, VA, USA
Hon. Barbara M.G. Lynn U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas Dallas, TX, USA	Frances E. Marshall Apple Inc. Washington, DC, USA	Prof. Peter S. Menell UC Berkeley School of Law Berkeley, CA, USA	Rubén Muñoz Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Philadelphia, PA, USA
Hon. Kathleen McDonald O'Malley Irell & Manella LLP Washington, DC, USA	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 Rea Consulting, LLC Washington, DC, USA
Dr. Beatriz San Martin Arnold & Porter London, United Kingdom	David Saunders Juniper Networks Sunnyvale, CA, USA	Mark Selwyn WilmerHale Palo Alto, CA, USA	Bridget Smith Relativity Space Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hon. Gail J. Standish U.S. District Court, Central District of California Los Angeles, CA, USA	Richard J. Stark Retired New York City, NY, USA	Jonathan Stroud Unified Patents, LLC Washington, DC, USA	Eley O. Thompson Foley & Lardner LLP Chicago, IL, USA
Anthony Trenton WilmerHale London, United Kingdom	Vaishali Udupa Hewlett Packard Enterprise Reston, VA, USA	Richard Vary Bird & Bird LLP London, United Kingdom	Kathi Vidal Winston & Strawn LLP Washington, DC, USA

WG9/10 Annual Meeting 2020 Agenda

DAY 1 - Thursday, November 19 (all times ET)

Time	Session	Panelists
11:15 — 11:25	Check-in
11:25 — 11:30	Welcome and Introductions	Hutz, Powers, Weinlein
11:30 — 12:45	[Panel 1] The Role of Patents in Biopharma v. High-Tech Industries: Can One Patent System Effectively Accommodate Both?	Bencivengo (J), Fishman, Geiszler, Groombridge*, Johnson, Korea, Lieberman, Liu, Menell, Pearson, Udupa
12:45 — 1:00	Break
1:00 — 2:30	[Panel 2] The Evolving Relationship Between Federal Courts and Administrative Agencies	Armond, Banowit, Barney, Cheney (J), Fink (J), Haapala (J), Kim (J), Munoz, Smith, Stroud*, Thompson
2:30 — 2:45	Break
2:45 — 4:15	[Panel 3] Streamlining Lower-Value Patent Cases	Albright (J), Beard, Burke (J), Chatterjee, Ferguson, Freeman (J), Powers, Saunders, Vidal*
4:15 — 4:35	Keynote Address: The Importance of Balance in the IP System by USPTO Director Andrei Iancu	Iancu
4:35 — 5:05	Open discussion: What's next for WG9&10? How can I get more involved?	Hutz, Powers, Rea,

DAY 2 - Friday, November 20 (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 4] Unique Problems and Opportunities Posed by Global Patent Litigation	Bowbeer (J), Busey, Cooper, Grzimek, Huang, Jordan (J), Powers, Rea*, San Martin, Trenton
1:00 — 1:15	Break
1:15 — 2:45	[Panel 5] The Global Implications of Standard-Essential Patent (SEP) and Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) Litigation	Geiszler, Giles, Grzimek, Huang, Hutz*, Long, Lynn (J), Marshall, O'Malley (J), Selwyn, Stark, Vary
2:45 — 3:00	Break
3:00 — 4:30	[Panel 6] Judicial Roundtable	Burke (J), Freeman (J), Jordan (J), Lynn (J), Powers*, Standish (J)
4:30 — 4:35	Closing Statements

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