De Clercq & Partners Annual IP Seminar

This year’s seminar will be hosted online on Friday December 11, 2020.

Programme

We will be offering a session in the morning and in the afternoon to cater to as many of you as possible. The presentations will be exactly the same during both sessions but the Q&A will of course depend on the input of the participants.

9.00 am // 2.30 pm:   Welcome and introduction
Sakina Bounaga, Partner & Patent Attorney

9.05 am // 2.35 pm:   Updates in Healthcare and Life Sciences Patent Practice in Europe
– Antibodies
– Plants
– Impact of Covid-19 pandemic
Ann De Clercq, Founding Partner & Patent Attorney
Liesbet Paemen, Partner & Patent Attorney
Andrej Michalík, Partner & Patent Attorney
Koen Vanhalst, Partner & Patent Attorney

10.00 am // 3.30 pm:   Q&A – part one

10.15 am // 3.45 pm:   Short break

10.25 am // 3.55 pm:   Patenting in a digital world
Jeff Gyi, Patent Attorney (moderator)

10.35 am // 4.05 pm:   Artificial inventors: who owns the sheep when androids dream?
David Lesthaeghe, Patent Attorney

10.55 am // 4.25 pm:   The global rise of digital technologies in European patent filings. Key insights from the European Patent Index.
Robrecht Dumarey, Patent Attorney

11.15 am // 4.45 pm:   Q&A – part two

For whom

• Practitioners involved in drafting, prosecuting and litigating patents
• Representatives from technology transfer offices
• Legal representatives
• Policymakers
• Inventors
• Investors
• CEOs

Timing

Friday December 11, 2020

• Morning session: 9.00 am – 11.30 am CET (Brussels)
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• Afternoon session: 2.30 pm – 5.00 pm CET (Brussels)
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Registration

Registration is free of charge but mandatory.

Please click here to register.

You will receive an access link to the webinar a few days in advance of the event. A recording will be made available afterwards.

We hope to be back next year with our full-day programme, in-person networking opportunities and a lovely lunch. In the meantime though, we look forward to seeing you all online next week!