NO
COST TO ATTEND THIS CLE! Free lunch to the first fifteen (15)
registrants!
Deadline to Register: May 5,
2015
Sponsored
By:
MSBA International Business Law Section
(IBLS)
Topics will
include:
- Break Down for
the U.S. Practitioner: Patent Filing and Prosecution Strategies before the
EPO;
- A Look into the Future: Unified Patent and Unified Patent Court
system;
- Suing It Out: Strategies for litigating before Europe’s
proposed “Unified Patent Court” system; and
- “Supplementary Protection
Certificates” (SPC), Accelerated Patents (PACE), and other “value
creation” means at the EPO
Speakers:
KIPA (Krahbichler Intellectual Property Advisors) is a full-service
Swedish-based European Intellectual Property (IP) firm founded in 2006 to
provide highly-specialized and professional IP services and advice to the
medical device industry. Over the years, KIPA has earned a reputation as
one of the best full-service Swedish IP firms in this field. With steady growth,
KIPA now provides a full array of IP services – including patent and trademark
prosecution and litigation – for a diverse portfolio of clients known for
driving innovation in a variety of areas of technology including alternative
fuels, biotech, and chemistry.
Visiting us here in Minnesota will be:
Erik Krahbichler is the CEO and Founder of the KIPA law firm
located in Helsingborg, Sweden. Erik was born and raised in Germany and received
and attended the University of Karlsruhe where he majored in Biomedical
Engineering and received his degree in Electrical Engineering. Subsequent to his
studies, he worked as a Sales Engineer in Germany for Siemens Medical and later
as a Development Engineer at Siemens-Elema in Stockholm, Sweden. He then worked
as a Patent Examiner at the European Patent Office in Munich, Germany where he
examined Medical Device patents. He is admitted to practice as a European Patent
Attorney and holds a Ceipi University Diploma in the area of European
Litigation.
Pär Hjalmarsson holds a M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from
Lund University in Sweden with an emphasis on optics/spectroscopy and
measurement/medical technology as well as a Ph.D. from Newcastle University’s
Department of Chemical Engineering in England. There he concentrated he
investigated the use of NIR spectroscopy for non-invasive measurements of turbid
materials. For a time he worked as a Product Development Scientist at a UK
start-up company, working with novel measurement techniques within the area of
bio-chemistry. He is admitted as a European Patent Attorney and previously
worked with a large Nordic-based patent firm located in Copenhagen, Denmark
concentrating his practice in the fields of electronics, mechanics, and
optics.
Anders Isaksson studied at Chalmers University in
Gothenburg, Sweden from which he holds two M.Sc. degrees, one in Electrical
Engineering and a second in Biomedical Engineering. His masters thesis focused
on bone-anchored hearing aids. In the past he was worked as a software and
hardware developer in holographic imaging at a start-up company and later as a
software and hardware consultant for a company that developed a payment device
based on imaging technologies. He is currently midway into the process of
becoming a fully qualified European Patent Attorney.
CLE Credits:
1.0 Standard CLE Credit applied for | Event Code: 204982
Cost:
No cost. Free lunch to the first fifteen (15) designated registrants.
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