The IP Seminar at Volvo Cars is a premier event focusing on intellectual property within the automotive industry, organized in collaboration with Volvo Cars and Premier Cercle. This seminar brings together industry leaders, legal experts, and policymakers to discuss emerging challenges and future developments in automotive IP.
Key topics include automation, electromobility, and connectivity, addressing the convergence of technologies and the evolving landscape of IP management. Sessions also cover in-house IP governance, patent analytics, OEM and supplier strategies, cross-industry standards, IP valuation, and data management.
The event features over 40 professional IP speakers from the automotive sector and beyond, offering attendees valuable insights and networking opportunities. Participants can also enjoy a cocktail reception and a guided tour of the Volvo Cars factory, enhancing the overall experience.
This seminar is ideal for CEOs, COOs, Chief IP Officers, Heads of Patent, IP Lawyers, EU Officials, and other IP professionals seeking to stay abreast of the latest trends and strategies in automotive intellectual property.
Speakers(30)
Alexander Fishkin
Chief Legal Officer | General Counsel | Corporate Secretary at Luminar Technologies
Alexander Fishkin is the Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary at Luminar Technologies, responsible for the company's legal affairs.
Anna Holmberg
Manager of The Vera Project at Center for Intellectual Property (CIP)
Anna Holmberg is at the Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) and is the Manager of The Vera Project, CIP's equality and diversity program. She is also an Innovation Manager and Lecturer at Sahlgrenska School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship. In addition, she works for the Institute of Innovation and Social Change at the University of Gothenburg, where she focuses on social innovation projects in segregated areas of the city. Ms. Holmberg has previous experience from several business law firms, where she focused primarily on IP, contract law, and M&A. Ms. Holmberg is actively engaged in the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and is on the board of the Research2Business project, focusing on utilizing university research. She has an LLM and an MMed in business creation and entrepreneurship in biomedicine from the School of Economics, Business and Law and Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg.
Ari Laakkonen
Partner at Powell Gilbert LLP
Ari has a huge breadth of experience in the electronics, IT, and telecoms sectors derived from his in-depth technical knowledge from experience as both in-house and external legal counsel. Ari specializes in electronics patent litigation and licensing disputes, as well as advising on general IP, licensing, and competition law matters including FRAND obligations, obligations to license, damages, and general strategic advice. He also advises in relation to disputes involving trademarks, designs, copyrights, and trade secrets/confidential information. He has represented clients in the UK courts as well as in opposition and appeal proceedings in the European Patent Office and has assisted with coordinating actions in courts elsewhere in Europe, the US, Latin America, and Asia. Advice on multi-jurisdictional strategy is a particular strength.
Aude De Clercq
Technology Transfer Officer at the Technology Transfer Programme Office at European Space Agency (ESA)
Aude De Clercq is a Technology Transfer Officer at the Technology Transfer Programme Office of the European Space Agency (ESA), facilitating the transfer of space technologies to non-space sectors.
B0fatrice L0fvy-Moulin
Group Intellectual Property Vice President at Valeo
B0fatrice L0fvy-Moulin is the Group Intellectual Property Vice President at Valeo, overseeing the company's global intellectual property strategy.
Cecilia Sunnevfng
VP Research Engineering and Development at Autoliv
Cecilia Sunnev0fng is the VP of Research Engineering and Development at Autoliv, leading the company's research and development initiatives.
Charlotta Ljungdahl
Vice President Intellectual Property at Air Liquide
Charlotta, a Swedish native, is Vice President of IP for the Air Liquide Group since 2015 and based in Paris. She leads Air Liquide's global IP team, which is present in six geographies in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The team's mission is to manage all facets of IP-related activities, including patents, copyright, trademarks and domain names, design, and technology transactions. Charlotta is a licensed attorney with the State Bar of New York, is vice-president of LES France, and Board member of Unifab and of 4IP Counsel.
Chris Storm
Legal Director, Emerging Technologies at UBER
Chris Storm is the Legal Director for Emerging Technologies at UBER, overseeing legal matters related to the company's innovative technology initiatives.
Claudio Simao
Chief Technology Officer at Hexagon AB
Claudio Simao is the Chief Technology Officer at Hexagon AB, overseeing the company's technology strategy and development.
Claudius Leibfritz
Chief Executive Officer at Allianz Automotive
Claudius Leibfritz is the CEO of Allianz Automotive and thereby responsible for the global automotive business of Allianz. In addition, he is a member of the Management Board of Allianz Partners. Prior to this, Claudius was managing several regional groups of Allianz. Before joining Allianz, he spent more than ten years at Boston Consulting Group conducting and heading various international projects. Claudius holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Berne in Switzerland and a Masters degree from Tuebingen University in Germany.
Dan McCurdy
Chief Executive Officer at RPX
Dan McCurdy is CEO of RPX Corporation, where he previously served as senior vice president from 2014 to 2016. Prior to RPX, Dan was a partner with Quatela Lynch McCurdy. From 2008 through June 2014, he was CEO of Allied Security Trust and Chairman and CEO of PatentFreedom. In June 2014, PatentFreedom was acquired by RPX. Previously, Dan was founding CEO of ThinkFire; President of Intellectual Property of Lucent Technologies and Bell Laboratories; a Vice President of IBM responsible for the creation of its Life Sciences business unit; a Vice President of Ciena Corporation where he directed merger, acquisition, and corporate development; Director of Business Development for IBM Research; and Manager of Technology and Intellectual Property Policy for IBM worldwide. Dan graduated summa cum laude from the University of North Carolina.
Dennis Nobelius
Chief Executive Officer at Zenuity
Dennis Nobelius has extensive experience within product development, complemented with leading positions in manufacturing, and now via marketing/sales/service domain moved into a Managing Director position of a new Joint Venture between Volvo Cars & Autoliv Zenuity. Major recent achievements include leading the development of the All-New Volvo XC90 (including the new SPA platform) and simultaneously leading the development of the Volvo 90 model range (S90, V90, and V90 Cross Country). His background also covers running an entrepreneurial IT business. Dennis holds a Ph.D. degree in Technology Management.
Erik Ahroon
Vice President at Acacia Research
Erik Ahroon, named Worlds 300 Leading IP Strategists by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Magazine, is Vice President of Acacia Research Corporation and manages IP acquisitions including investment opportunities geared for early-stage IP commercialization companies. Mr. Ahroon received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara (USA), an MBA from the University of California Irvine (USA), and is registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Harold Cobben
General Manager Europe at Royole Corporation
Harold Cobben is the General Manager Europe at Royole Corporation, overseeing the company's European operations.
James Bradley
Head of Legal at Group Lotus plc
Dr. James Bradley is an award-winning international counsel with distinctions from Oxford University who obtained a record private action settlement from Europes largest automotive manufacturer. He successfully protected a client from a multibillion Euro class action. He managed all international legal work for the Southern Hemispheres largest pharmaceutical company and the highly profitable sale of a UK company to the worlds largest private equity house. Currently, he heads Lotus's legal team.
Jens Brdin
Partner and CEO at Konsert Strategy & IP
Jens Brdin is the Partner and CEO of Konsert Strategy & IP, a management consulting firm specializing in intellectual property strategy and management. He has extensive experience in advising companies on how to leverage their intellectual property for business success.
Lionel M. Lavenue
Partner at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garret & Dunner, LLP
Lionel M. Lavenue is a partner in Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP's Reston, Virginia office, and leads the firm's Aerospace, Aviation, and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) industry group. With experience in more than 180 district court litigations, Lionel's practice focuses on intellectual property matters including patent trial litigation and patent portfolio management for a variety of technologies (including appeals), especially those related to aviation, UAS, UAV, and drone technologies.
Lisa Selar
Senior Trademark and Design Counsel at Volvo Car Corporation
As the Senior Trademark and Design Counsel, Lisa heads the trademark and design team of Volvo Cars' Intellectual Property department. She is working closely with the business in creating and adopting new nomenclature and branding strategies and advises on a range of trademark and marketing issues. Since 2015, she has also managed and developed the trademark portfolio of Polestar, the new electric performance brand from the Volvo Car Group. Lisa holds an LL.M. from the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg. She started at Volvo Cars IP in 2004 and has since 2006 been responsible for Volvo Cars' trademark portfolio and the cooperation with Volvo Trademark Holding AB, the owner of the Volvo mark. During 2012 2014, she was a member of the Trademark Committee of SIPF, Association of IP Professionals in Swedish Industry, providing comments to the Swedish Patent Office on IP matters.
Michael Natterer
Managing Director at Dennemeyer Octimine
Dr. Michael Natterer co-founded octimine technologies GmbH and developed its core technology in 2015 together with Matthias P0ftzl. His fields of interest are building businesses, product development, artificial intelligence, machine learning, patent data, analytics, and statistics. After Octimine's acquisition by the Dennemeyer Group in October 2018, he continues to drive the company, but he also contributes to Dennemeyer's overall software strategy and products. Michael has a strong technological, business, and entrepreneurial background. He holds a Ph.D. and various Master's degrees in Innovation and Technology Management. He studied and did his research at Max-Planck-Institute Munich, LMU Munich, Sydney Graduate School of Management, and Harvard University. Besides entrepreneurship, he likes programming, reading, and all kinds of sports like basketball, fitness, snowboarding, or wakeboarding. Michael speaks English, German, French, and has been active in the field of IP since 2009.
Nicolas Schifano
Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft
Among his responsibilities, Nicolas leads Azure IP Advantage, a program designed to protect Microsoft's customers' innovations in the cloud. Nicolas is also responsible for Open Source and IP policy at Microsoft. Prior to that, Nicolas led Microsoft's standards and intellectual property policy engagements, first out of the Microsoft office in Brussels, then at Microsoft's headquarters in the USA. Nicolas is registered with the Washington bar as in-house counsel. He is also a French and European patent attorney. He has an educational background in computer science, electrical engineering, intellectual property, and business laws. Nicolas is a regular speaker at conferences on intellectual property.
Nicole Shanahan
Chief Executive Officer at ClearAccessIP
Nicole Shanahan is an attorney in California and the CEO of ClearAccessIP, the leading Silicon Valley solution for AI-centric intellectual property services.
Ohad Biron
VP Operations, leading the company Operations and Legal Affairs at PROPHESEE
With 15 years of experience in the Automotive, Semiconductor, and Telecommunication industries, Ohad led various strategic projects from go-to-market and business models strategies to IP Protection, Business Continuity, and Patent Harvesting. At PROPHESEE, he is leading the companys business growth and international expansion, including setting up its subsidiaries and managing partnerships with vendors and distributors as well as overseeing and implementing better business practices and effective operational and financial procedures. Ohad has an Honors degree within information technology from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, followed by an MBA from INSEAD.
Paolo Rezzaghi
IPR Manager at Brembo S.p.A
Paolo Rezzaghi is the IPR Manager at Brembo S.p.A, managing the company's intellectual property rights.
Raymond Millien
Vice President and Chief IP Counsel at Volvo Car Corporation
Raymond Millien, named one of the Worlds 300 Leading IP Strategists by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Magazine from 2009-2016, is Vice President & Chief IP Counsel at Volvo Car Corporation. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University (New York, USA), and a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School (Washington, D.C. USA). He has led the IP function at GE Oil & Gas and the American Express Company, and the software IP function at GE Healthcare. Mr. Millien has also served as General Counsel of IP merchant bank Ocean Tomo, LLC, and practiced law in the Washington, DC offices of DLA Piper US LLP and Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC.
Robert Sterner
Attorney at Law, Head of Trademark and Design Enforcement at AUDI
Robert Sterner is an Attorney at Law and Head of Trademark and Design Enforcement at AUDI, responsible for protecting the company's trademarks and designs.
Ronan Stephan
Chief Scientist at Plastic Omnium
Ronan Stephan is the Chief Scientist at Plastic Omnium, leading the company's scientific research and development efforts.
Stephen Potter
Adviser at Iprova
Stephen took a doctorate in chemistry at Sheffield and won Fellowships at Yale University and Cambridge. He has worked with FT100 companies and in start-ups as a CEO, CTO, and in Business Development in the UK, Germany, US, Switzerland, and Sweden. He has operating experience in a wide variety of industries including (fine) chemicals, paints and coatings, pharmaceuticals, electronics, defense, automobiles, materials, printing and packaging, software, and telecommunications and, latterly, intellectual property and licensing. He is now advising and carrying out business development for Iprova, a Swiss / UK start-up that is rapidly delivering highly diverse inventions with the help of its novel AI/ML/NLP software. Iprova has 30 global blue-chip clients who have used these inventions as a basis for > 130 published patent application families with >300 that are still confidential. He has been elected a member of the IAM 300 most influential IP strategists since its inception.
Thomas Ingenlath
Chief Executive Officer at Polestar AB
Thomas Ingenlath has 24 years of experience within the automotive industry, having worked in lead design positions at Audi, Volkswagen, and koda. In 2012, he joined the Volvo Car Group as the Senior Vice President of Volvo Design in Gothenburg. In 2017, Thomas joined Polestar as CEO. Thomas also has the role of Chief Design Officer, Volvo Car Group.
Tracy Durkin
Trademark & Design Lawyer at Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox
Tracy Durkin is a Trademark & Design Lawyer at Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, specializing in intellectual property law with a focus on trademarks and design patents.
Victoria Van Camp
Chief Technology Officer at AB SKF
Victoria Van Camp is the Chief Technology Officer at AB SKF, responsible for the company's technological advancements and innovations.
Event Details
- Date
- June 15, 2023
- Location
- 🇸🇪 Gothenburg, Sweden
- Volvohallen - Volvo Cars Headquarters
- Pricing
- €1,250
- Audience
- CEOs, COOs, Chief IP Officers, Heads of Patent, IP Lawyers, EU Officials, and other IP professionals.
- Attendees
- 260 (limited seats)